homemade sandwich bread

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I have been baking bread for years but had not made one that we could make sandwiches from and send to school with the kids.
I finally came up with a rather sucessful bread for that!
I use a rather simple recipe and mix it in the dough cycle of my bread machine - it does a much better job than I do trying to mix it by hand.
I let it go through the first rise in the machine which on mine is 50 min, then it "punches it down" and I take it out and put it in a greased loaf pan. I cover it with a dishcloth and put it into the oven which I had preheated to 200 degrees and then turned off for the second rise - 30 min. I pull it out of the oven and heat the oven to 350 and then bake for about 25 min. It has a good texture and flavor and makes great sandwiches!

The drawback is the time involved and having to be home to move it from place to place and the fact that I can only do one loaf at a time and one loaf lasts for one or two days for us.

Here is the recipe I use - it makes one loaf -

water - 1 1/3 c
coconut oil - 1 T
butter or olive oil - 1T
honey - about 2 T
salt - a scant 1t
flour - about 4 cups
yeast 2t

I warm the water and mix in the yeast and then pour it in the bread machine pan.

I then add the oil, honey and salt.

For the flour, I use a blend of flour types based on what I have around at the time. I use at least half organic unbleached white flour and the other half is a mix of whole grain flours. Right now I have some flour I got at a store that went out of business that I am using up so some of that is going in it and I grind some flour in my Vitamix. I usually grind Kamut, Millet, Lentils, Brown Rice, Flax Seed and Steel Cut Oats and sometimes Amaranth but right now I have Amaranth flour and Teff flour and Garbanzo Bean flour that I am using up. I also add in a bit of Vital Wheat Gluten and Xanthun Gum.

I start with a bit less than 4 cups of flour and let it mix in the bread machine. I watch it and use a rubber spatula to scrape it and help it to mix and then add more flour if it seems to need it.