ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup water
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (or olive oil)
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons dry milk
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups bread flour
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
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• 1 egg white whisked with 1 tablespoon cold water

instructions

1. Add liquid then dry ingredients (and finally yeast) to the bread machine (except the egg white).
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2. Use the French Bread setting of your machine, but remove the dough before the baking cycle begins.
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3. Spray or lightly oil a large cookie sheet; sprinkle with cornmeal.
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4. To form loaves: Transfer dough (it will be soft) to a lightly floured board. Sprinkle with a little flour; cut dough into 2 portions. Roll each portion into a rectangle about 12 to 15 inches wide (add more flour as needed). Starting at long end, roll up; pinch seams well. Repeat with next roll.
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5. Place loaves on prepared cookie sheet; cover with clean dish towel and let rise another hour.
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6. Preheat oven to 400 F. Place a pie plate on the lower rack of the oven; add about 1 inch of boiling water to the pie plate.
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7. Bake bread for 15 minutes; lower heat to 350 F. Bake for another 25 minutes.
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8. About 5 minutes before loaves are done, brush with the egg white and water mixture.

From https://www.thespruceeats.com/bread-machine-crusty-french-bread-3051757

I’m making this recipe https://letthebakingbegin.com/basic-brioche-bread-recipe/

I used 4tbsp sugar (use a lot less next time, it’s too sweet), and milk instead of water. I also used the amount of flour she suggested, by scooping the flour right into the cups (more dense then). It doesn’t really say how to bake this in the machine so I’m just trying the French setting, 2lb, medium and hoping for the best. I’ll add the butter and salt when the machine beeps and report back and see how this went.

On the French setting, the machine will not beep at 10 minutes left in kneading, so simply wait until the machine timer reads 3:15 (signaling that there is about 10 minutes left of kneading time) and slowly add in the butter.

It came out but next time I would cook it on darkness/crust setting “light” rather medium as I think the crust came out a little too dark on medium

Another recipe to try if this doesn’t work out is the WP version https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-we-can-eat/post/chat-leftovers-bread-machine-brioche/2012/06/27/gJQAul5k6V_blog.html

ingredients

• 1 ½ cups water, warm (not too hot or it will kill the yeast)
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, or melted butter

• 4 ¼ cups whole wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon salt

• 2 ¼ teaspoons yeast

instructions

1. Pour wet ingredients (water, honey, olive oil) into the bread machine pan.
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2. Pour the dry ingredients (salt, flour) over the wet ingredients.
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3. Make a well and place the yeast in the well.
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4. Select the whole wheat option on bread machine and press start

From: https://www.100daysofrealfood.com/recipe-honey-whole-wheat-sandwich-bread-for-bread-machine/