This orange bread recipe is one of the first bread machine recipes I ever made. It's great toasted and topped with cream cheese. The secret ingredient is zest!
This makes a two-pound loaf of bread. Use the basic setting.
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the machine first. With my machine, I add the liquids first.
Check the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. By that I mean, 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 right. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks right.
Notes
Use the basic setting with medium crust.This recipe was developed and tested using US customary measurements. Metric measurements are calculated automatically.