FRENCH BREAD --Bread Machine

1½ Pound Loaf
9½ oz. water
3½ cups bread flour
1½ tsp. sugar
1¼ tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. butter/margarine
2 tsp. active dry yeast
or 1½ tsp. fast rise yeast

1 Pound Loaf
7 oz. water
2½ cups bread flour
1 tsp. sugar
¾ tsp. salt
1½ tsp. butter
1½ tsp. active dry yeast
or 1 tsp. fast rise yeast

Add liquid ingredients to pan. Add dry ingredients, except yeast, to pan. Level ingredients. Cut butter into four pieces. Place a piece in each corner on top of dry ingredients. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and add yeast. Program machine.