The recipes that made me pack away my breadmaker

npsmama · 18 January 2007 at 9:29PM

I have a life long passion for real bread having been raised on the real stuff in Italy. Bagged, sliced stuff just isn't bread for me!

I thought my dreams had come true when I got a breadmaker but soon realised the recipes weren't giving me the texture I was after.

I found these wonderful recipes and since trying them I bake them every week and I have put my breadmaker in the garage.

100% wholewheat bread: this is wonderful stuff! Light, flavoursome....not a brick in sight and idiot-proof! I use my home ground flour and have also made it successfully with spelt.

Marylin's 100% wholewheat bread

NoKnead Bread: this makes bread almost like the artisanal bread of my village in Sardinia (use 3 ROUNDED cups of flour and only 1.5C water):
Watch the video from this link, it's much more informative than the article.

NoKnead Bread

And finally I am testing at the moment a sourdough version of the above (NB it's worth looking at this site for the pictures):

Sourdough NoKnead Redux Bread

I've been meaning to post these for a while.

Hope they're of use to someone!

thriftlady_2 · 18 January 2007 at 9:32PM

Oh no! you're links aren't working npsmama

I'd love to read your recipes - I gave away my breadmaker and make my bread by hand every week too

MonstersMummy · 18 January 2007 at 9:35PM

Mines in the attic!! It just doesn't compare does it?
My fave at the mo is from river cottage family book. My only problem with HM bread is it doesn't last long, the loaf i made today for lunch only has about 4 slices left as me and the wee man ate most of it before it was really cool enough to be cut!!!!

npsmama · 18 January 2007 at 9:44PM

For my links replace the hxxp with http.
I was told that was the way to do it...

squeaky · 18 January 2007 at 9:51PM

Hi all,

I've just fixed the links, so they should be fine now.

tallulah_beaulah · 18 January 2007 at 10:18PM

Thanks so much for the links npsmama!

I've had my breadmaker for a year and starting to find it a bit frustrating (the big holes in the bottom of the loaf etc). Dh won't eat my handmade bread "bricks" when I don't use the BM - so this is just the answer I've been after.

Could you tell me a little more about your home ground flour? I've never heard of anyone grinding their own flour at home - I'd love to know more.

MrsTinks · 18 January 2007 at 10:33PM

I find the panny isn't too bad for leaving holes, BUT I have been known to "hover" and remove the paddle before the bake cycle

that way I have a tiiiiiiny hole

Me personally prefer the breadmaker, I can't knead bread because I have very inflamed tendons in my wrists and I would be in agony if I tried to knead bread as regularly as I make bread in the BM

I DO sometimes use it to make the dough and then bake it in the oven- especially if I'm making rolls

lil_me · 18 January 2007 at 10:39PM

I bought a BM as my ovens useless for making bread, used the same recipe as I did in a friends oven and came out perfect in hers and burnt on the outside and raw in the middle in mine. Same as my cakes! I will however pass the recipes on to friends who homebake

npsmama · 18 January 2007 at 10:45PM

I use my Kenwood Chef to knead the 100% wholewheat recipe and the other 2 recipes don't require kneading.
Regarding the home milled flour, I have a milling machine. It's a Waldner Biotech Mill which i bought from ukjuicers.com. Freshly milled flour smells amazing and also a lot of the nutrients are lost as soon as 6hrs after milling so stuff you buy in the shops that has been milled weeks/months ago are nutritionally inferior.

Pandora123_2 · 18 January 2007 at 11:20PM

Where do you get the wheat for your homeground flour? Do you use instant yeast or regular yeast for the wholewheat bread? Where do you get the dough enhancer?

I'm very intrigued with the NY Times recipe. I'd been meaning to post that link as well, but you beat me to it! Here is a followup to that article:

No Kneading, but Some Fine-Tuning

I could never get a decent loaf out of a breadmaker, so I make mine by hand as well. I use an adaption of a Jamie Oliver recipe. I also came across a really nice recipe for hamburger buns. (Can post the link if anyone is interested.)

I quite like kneading, I find it kind of relaxing.

:A

Angelina-M · 19 January 2007 at 12:48AM

npsmama wrote:

I use my Kenwood Chef to knead the 100% wholewheat recipe and the other 2 recipes don't require kneading.
Regarding the home milled flour, I have a milling machine. It's a Waldner Biotech Mill which i bought from ukjuicers.com. Freshly milled flour smells amazing and also a lot of the nutrients are lost as soon as 6hrs after milling so stuff you buy in the shops that has been milled weeks/months ago are nutritionally inferior.

Fantastic post npsmama, well done!!

Are you following that first recipe exact? I'm just wondering about the dough enhancer? And are you actually using cup measurements?

Sorry for all the questions but im keen to give it a go... if I did 100% wholegrain it would be like a brick with my recipe!

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