Orange-Cumin Bread (Breadmaker Recipe)

Christmas was fantastic to me! Among other lovely kitchen implements, I was gifted with my very own breadmaker. Obviously, that means I need to share my favorite breadmaker recipe with you.  This recipe is (very minimally) adapted from a recipe in Marjie Lambert's The Bread Machine Book, which is full of absolutely amazing breadmaker recipes.

Orange-Cumin Bread (makes a 1.5lb loaf)

• 3/4 cup milk
• 6 Tbsp water
• 3 Tbsp canola oil
• 2 Tbsp grated orange peel
• 4 1/2 Tsp sugar
• 1 1/4 tsp ground cumin
• 3 Tbsp cornmeal
• 2 1/4 c bread flour
• 3/4 c whole-wheat flour
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 1/4 tsp quick rise yeast
• 1 Tbsp butter, quartered

1.  Add the ingredients to the breadmaker in the order recommended in your breadmaker's instructions (I've found it's usually liquid ingredients, followed by dry ingredients EXCEPT salt and yeast).
2.  Pour salt in one corner of the breadmaker.
3.  Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and put the yeast into that well.
4.  Put the quartered butter in each of the corners of the pan.
5.  Breadmaker settings: Whole wheat, medium or light crust.
6.  Press start!
7.  Remove bread immediately when it is done, and cool on a rack.

Note: I know you're supposed to let the bread cool completely before you cut it (blah blah blah), but if you can handle a bit of imperfection in cutting...take your first taste while it's still warm (not hot) from the "oven." Trust me, it's worth it -- but be careful not to burn yourself!