Breadmaking - recipes, hints, tips, questions

I haven't done home made home made garlic bread for ages. I used to make white rolls and bake them until cooked and then split them, fill with garlic butter and bake in foil.

You could just make the dough in the bread machine, shape into baguette shapes and bake them. I used to do rolls because the kids were little and liked to do their own with little dough faces, making eyes, nose and mouth from dough scraps. Don't think they'd be wanting to do that now!

Thanks for the replies, will give both suggestions a go next time we have pizza. Might do the flatbread for the adults and let the little one do the roll faces.

lil

squeaky wrote:

I've usually just added some garlic salt or garlic granules to a bread mix and then made rolls buns or flats as I needed. Often a mix of all three.

Sounds far too healthy. Where's the butter? :eek: Where's the saturated fat and cholesterol?:rotfl:

:doh: Ever since I got my breadmaker (Goodmans, with lots of functions including jam) I've been using readymix bread kits, and while they're ok, they do taste a bit ... different. During my first conscientious shop I noted that I could make 3 loaves with a bag of Hovis flour for almost the same price as one of these readymix things.

So today, now in fact - just this minute - I've made a loaf using this Hovis strong white bread flour, Hovis yeast, 25g butter (eh?), salt, sugar ( ), and 350ml warm water. While it smells absoultely gorgeous, and just like a proper fresh loaf should smell, and while it had a great soft crust (even if it is a bit sweet), it's a bit, well, wet, in the middle.

I've had this before with the readymix and I read the water quantity wrong, so I checked the recipe on the back of the Hovis pack and everything is fine, apart from the bit where it says to keep the yeast away from the salt and sugar, and the part where it says if I use the LONG function on my breadmaker I must use a whole sachet of yeast and not jst 1.25 teaspoons.

How do I keep ingredients separate when it says "put the ingredients in the breadmaker in the order it's listed"? And should I use the TURBO function instead of BASIC?

I still have 2/3 of a bag so can rescue our bread shortage today by baking another loaf this evening. So if anyone has any ideas in, say, the next hour (it's currently 4.50pm), I'll be as grateful as ever.

NOTE: I will need to call out a search party if you need me to find my manual ...

moggins wrote:

I notice you are using butter, the instructions from my breadmaker say to use sunflower oil.

Yes, I thought the butter part was a tad odd.

moggins wrote:

I always put the water in first, then the salt, sugar and oil, then the flour and put the yeast in on top of the flour as this mustn't get wet before the process starts.

That's what I'll try this evening, then. I'm sure my manual said to put all the dry ingredients in first and then the wet stuff on the top, and the readymixes say that too, as does this Hovis pack.

Thanks for replying so quickly.