I don't have that Pan de Mie pan but I made your White Sandwich Bread (which has essentially the same ingredients) the other day. The texture sure is soft but it had a strange aftertaste. It reminded me of a trip overseas where I was served milk made from Carnation dry milk. Yuck, nothing like real milk. Although the strange aftertaste might have come from the instant mashed potatoes your recipe calls for. I looked at its ingredient list and most of the items I can't pronounce. It's filled with preservatives and other industrial chemicals who knows what they're for. If I wanted to eat industrial food products, I would just buy bread from the store. It sure is a lot more convenient. I bake because I like the pure taste of natural ingredients. For example, I like the bread from the 'Our Favorite Sandwich Bread' recipe on this website which doesn't call for dry milk or instant mashed potatoes. We use potato flour here in the test kitchen, rather than instant potato flakes, but we're hesitant to call for proprietary ingredients in our Guaranteed Recipes - thus the potato flakes. You could also substitute mashed potatoes. To each his own - I notice that particular recipe has 100% 5-star comments, so I guess here are those who really like it. Thanks for your input - PJH

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