Breadmaker - plain flour recipes?

I run out of high grade flour for my breadmaker and made a loaf with plain flour instead and it didnt really rise - its a bit of a disaster loaf.

Does anyone have a reason this happened or a recipe that uses plain (or self rising) flour instead?

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