Cornbread and green chilli

jessbrown100

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do_it_today!

Hi :hello:
I finally managed to buy a Panosonic breadmaker last month and so far its been great! I've only tried lidl and M&S breadmixes. so far with success but tonight I thought I'd try a corn bread recipe for a breadmaker and it was a complete disaster!
With the mixes I shove the water in first and then flour mix on top. I thought it would be a good idea to do the same... needless to say it really didnt work, it kinda cooked round the edges but not the middle and the top (total powder!). The guidance was to cook as if it was a basic loaf of white bread.

Does anyone have an idiot proof cornbread recipe for a breadmaker please and any tips!

many thanks

Penelope_Penguin

do_it_today! wrote: »

... needless to say it really didnt work, it kinda cooked round the edges but not the middle and the top (total powder!). The guidance was to cook as if it was a basic loaf of white bread.

If you've had success previously with bread mixes, I'm baffled as to why this didn;t work.

Can you post your recipe, please, then we may be able to suggest improvements

Soapy955

For a basic white loaf you need to put in the yeast first, then the flour, then sugar, oil, salt and lastly the water. This ensures that the yeast doesn't get wet too soon.
That's the order I always add ingredients and not had a failure yet.
HTH

Penelope_Penguin

Soapy955 wrote: »

For a basic white loaf you need to put in the yeast first, then the flour, then sugar, oil, salt and lastly the water. This ensures that the yeast doesn't get wet too soon.

I do it the opposite way - water first, dry ingredients on top

Intuitively, I'm thinking that it's far easier for liquid to trickle down onto the yeast, that for it to wick upwards

seraphina

All cornbread recipes I have used don't have yeast - they use baking powder or something similar to rise. They certainly don't need any extended rising/proving periods; you just mix everything together, chuck in a tin and bake for 25 mins or so. Therefore I'd be very suspicious of using a cornbread mix on a basic white loaf breadmaker setting.

cooking-mama

I have a Kenwood BM,and the water goes in first,but i thought that the big difference between Panasonic and all other BM;s was that the water always went in Last?

Pyramidal_Blonde

cooking-mama wrote: »

I have a Kenwood BM,and the water goes in first,but i thought that the big difference between Panasonic and all other BM;s was that the water always went in Last?

Yes with the Panasonic the water always goes in last.

MrsE_2

cooking-mama wrote: »

I have a Kenwood BM,and the water goes in first,but i thought that the big difference between Panasonic and all other BM;s was that the water always went in Last?

Yes you are right, its not up to the cook which order the bread machine has a specific order the cook must follow.

I think BMs are for yeasty breads, I don't think non yeasty breads do well in them (soda bread doesn't AFAIK), maybe non yeasty soda types of breads would need to be done on a cake setting.

Swan_2

cooking-mama wrote: »

I have a Kenwood BM,and the water goes in first,but i thought that the big difference between Panasonic and all other BM;s was that the water always went in Last?

I was thinking exactly the same

seraphina wrote: »

All cornbread recipes I have used don't have yeast - they use baking powder or something similar to rise. They certainly don't need any extended rising/proving periods; you just mix everything together, chuck in a tin and bake for 25 mins or so. Therefore I'd be very suspicious of using a cornbread mix on a basic white loaf breadmaker setting.

same here, I've always used baking powder & if you were making it in a BM I imagine you'd want to do it on the cake setting or bake only :think:

but if you Google for recipes, quite a few do show up that use yeast