Bread making machines

Regularly see bread makers as Ziggy says on freecycle or car boots is the other place where people seem to almost offer them for nothing... I I might give one a go at some point, but my Nan loves hers and bakes a couple loaves when people visit

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We don't have freecycle here Aesculus and car boots are next to none existent too.

 

I think you have to be really quite accurate with the measuring, especially the liquid. It's all about the ratios being right. And making sure the fast action yeast & the water don't meet before kneading. I use the recipe that comes with the panasonic, which I have made so many times I can give you I think without consulting the book. Always comes good but particularly when I stick a spoonful of oatbran or oats in it. Anyway for a medium loaf, be careful of it being a tsp or a tbsp ( ahem not that I've mixed the two up on autopilot before).

1 tsp fast action dried yeast
500g strong white flour
1.5 tbsp milk powder
1 to 1.5 tsp (not tbsp!) salt
25g fat of your choice - butter, marg, olive oil. You could use lard but that would be minging.
1tbsp sugar - I've found it's not fussy as to what type.
350ml water

Add to the pan yeast, then flour, then the other ingredients. This is a quantity for a medium loaf on the basic loaf bake cycle of 4 hrs.

I just typed that from memory. How many of these loaves must I have made?

 

Having put the buying of a breadmaker on hold because of my sick sewing machine needing repairs, it was not a bad thing. Today I've been given one that's nearly new along with a barbecue. I won't be picking it up until later in the week, so I don't know what make it is yet.

 

Here's today's Malted wholemeal Crunch

 

Take a closer look Jenny.......your loaf looks like it has a face.

 

So, I presume there's a 'best' type of flour?

 

Okey dokey

 

French flour "Type 55" is reckoned to be one of the best for a crisp white baguette but you can't buy it in UK

I can see it now Sheal Its got only one eyeball though - on the right !!

 

there is a massive difference between a cheap flour and a good one, but that is of course if one is able to tell the difference.

 

I can't. I can tell when a bread is made with flour treatment agents, but if you were to put a dove's farm wholemeal flour loaf and an asda own brand wholemeal flour loaf both made in a bread maker in front of me....I wouldn't be able to tell by taste.

If I was working by hand there might be some difference in how they work. But I'm not. So I don't worry about it

 

knocked up the Ciabatta mix in the Breadmaker then transferred it to a tin for final rising and decorating. Ready for the oven:

and after baking. Will be cut into 12 squares and taken to a BBQ tonight:


Jenny

 

I'm liking the look of that Jenny. Must get mine out and give it a try - don't think it has seen daylight for about 6 years.