Well looking at the recipe you have the same amount of butter in each recipe --was that a typo? I would think that they would have been different given the different amount of ingredients. Oh one more thing is it always tough on one size setting? you show two size loafs here, I think, it is not "in front" of me now., maybe it is the timer or something like that. I'll share my favorite recipe with you and see how you like it:

1.5 lb loaf:
1 cup water (wonder what some buttermilk in there would do?)
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tea salt
3 cups bread flour
2 1/4 tea yeast

put in machine in order given use whatever settings you desire for a 1.5 lb loaf

Now the reason I REALLY like this recipe is that it is VERY forgiving. I add stuff to this all the time with success. Some of my additions have been:

dried cranberries

various spices from Italian type (garlic!) to pumpkin pie spices and anything in between!

I also like to add sweetened ginger, cinnamon, raisins, craisens, nutmeg, allspice (of course not a lot of each)

1/4 cup dried fruit like for fruit cakes and a tad more sugar

well I'll stop now Oh well why!
Good taste, but funny looking bread additions are:

chocolate pieces, olives, muenster cheese chunks (toss in on top of flour) or both olives and cheese and garlic, hot pepper flake or two ... if you do adds you may want to check the machine after the second knead to see if it looks "right" like a kneaded dough should look adjust and reset machine if not.

Oh and I use olive oil sometimes as well and I have done the add 1 tbsp.. Karo corn syrup trick and didn't find any change.

Good luck!
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