My first white bread loaf! Wife says we are never buying bread again.

It's shiny in the pan because I gave it a light butter rub immediately after pulling from the oven. I didn't know white bread could be this good.

Here's the recipe, so sorry I didn't include at first. New here! I also copied this to people who asked below.

Apologies if it's weird, I'm at work!

Ingredients:

3 ½ cups all-purpose flour

¼ cup vital wheat gluten

¼ cup sugar

2 ¼ teaspoon instant yeast

1 teaspoon salt

1 ½ cups milk (I did oat)

3 tablespoons butter

I was reading about how we want to work the protein in the flour to get it a little more fibrous (sorry if that's not the right word) so I decided to throw in some gluten and I think it was a great choice.

Steps:

Mix the dries.

Fold in the milk.

Roll out and knead on a floured surface – I did a baking sheet and kneaded for about 5 minutes?

It was very sticky so I had about 1/4 cup flour to use on my hands, the dough, and the pan.

Roll into a ball and let rest on the stove with a burner on "melt" next to it.

I waited until it was 2x the size which was around 70 minutes.

Gave it a good actual punch cause that seemed fun. Do people really "punch" it usually?

I spread it out into an oval and then rolled it up into a loaf shape. Then gave it a few rolls like that to make sure it wasn't going to have swirls.

Let it double. I gave it around 80 minutes this time.

Bake at 375 for 35 minutes.

As soon as I took it out I rubbed it lightly with a stick of butter, which sort of melted into it nicely.

I waited an hour to cool and then we could wait no longer. It was so good.