Easy Orange Bread
Last Updated on September 25, 2019
This recipe is a variation on my favorite bread recipe, sour milk bread. I used regular (not sour) milk for this, but sour milk might taste fine too. If you make a sour milk version be sure to let me know.
I love this bread for breakfast. Slice it up. Top with butter and honey. Heaven!
1 ½ cups milk
4 cups bread flour
1 ¼ teaspoon salt
4 Tablespoons sugar
the zest from one orange
1 ½ Tablespoons oil
1 ¾ teaspoons active dry yeast
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first.
Use the basic setting. This makes a two-pound loaf.
Make sure you check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. Pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing. It should be a smooth, round ball. If it’s too dry add liquid a teaspoon at a time until it looks OK. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK.
I have a question can you ad some orange juice to it?
I’ve never tried that, but it might work. You’d need to decrease the milk by the amount of juice used. I suspect the bread wouldn’t be as soft, but the orange flavor might make up for that. Let me know if you try it. 🙂
Hi. How does this compare to your version of 2009? I just tried that one and the bread ball is very soupy. I added flour while kneading. Will know the results in a few hours. https://www.breadmachinediva.com/2009/05/orange-bread/
Interesting. I’m surprised that the dough was soupy. This is basically my sour milk bread recipe with orange zest added. I make the sour milk bread all the time. It’s one of my most reliable recipes. Let me know how the bread turns out.
Hi. I followed your version from 2009, which has different measurements. I also converted the cups to ounces per Zojirushi’s conversion.
I must have converted cups to ounces incorrectly because I had to add more than a cup of flour during the knead cycles before the ball looked right. But it came out beautiful…and tasty. I will try again later and pay more attention to my conversions from cups to ounces.
Thanks for all the recipes. I have long considered trying them, but only just now did. I think I will try the cherry bread next.
The sour milk version of the orange bread is outstanding! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I’m so glad you like it!
Do you put the setting on quick bread or some other setting
Great question! I’ve added this information to the recipe. Use the basic, white setting for this.
This looks delicious. Is it also for a 2 lb. loaf?
Good question! Yes, it’s for a two pound loaf. I’ve added that to the recipe now.