Breadmaking - recipes, hints, tips, questions

foreverskint

I made this in a small loaf size as I find it gets eaten quickly and is best when very fresh. If anyone wants the bigger sizes let me know.

1 1/4 cups of water (10flox)
1 cup of white stong flour (4 1/2 oz)
1 1/4 cups of granary flour }the next two should total 9 oz
1 cup of wholemeal}
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tsp easy blend yeast.

place ingredients in breadmaker and bake on basic white setting.

catznine

Just made a lovely Chocolate Loaf so thought I would share the recipe here:

2 & 3/4 cups white bread flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 cup milk (warmed to a temp between 21 and 28C)
1 medium sized egg (beaten)
1 tablespoon butter (melted)
4 tablespoons honey
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast

Into a bowl sieve together the white bread flour, cocoa and cinnamon. Place the ingredients in the bread pan in the order in which they are listed above, adding the flour mixture after the salt and before the yeast (I followed my panasonic instructions here and put the yeast in first and flour mix on top of that and then all the other ingredients) Set the programme to basic. Or if like me you wanted to add choc chips pop the chips into the dispenser and set programme to raisin.

This is yummy spread with black cherry jam!

Recipe comes from "One Hundred bread Machine Recipes" by Vicki Smallwood which is full of lovely recipes.

across

ive just got my first loaf cooking as we speak in the morphy richards breadmaker i got today for my birthday i am so excited it looks great i hope it tastes as good as it looks!!!!!!! it is rising away and i cant believe my eyes!!!!!

across

the first loaf was so soft and springy weve just made toast with it and it is gorgeous so tomorrow i'm going to try the chocolate bread has anyone tried it?

squeaky

I think I've lost my sense of adventure. Chocolate bread? <shudder>

beachbeth

squeaky wrote:

I think I've lost my sense of adventure. Chocolate bread? <shudder>

I think you have to think of it as chocolate cake rather than bread. You can then understand the concept! Bread - cake, potato - potatta, whats in a name?

megasaver

catznine wrote:

Just made a lovely Chocolate Loaf .....................

Recipe comes from "One Hundred bread Machine Recipes" by Vicki Smallwood which is full of lovely recipes.

Can't believe I have never heard of this book before but I found it yesterday afternoon in a charity shop! You are right. there are a lot of the great recipes in there.......so couldn't decide which one to make first... but now will have to try that chocolate loaf. The other chocoate loaf recipes I have tried before have never really been chocolately enough......so I like the idea of adding chocolate chips.... will have to dig out my measuring cups as I have never use them in my panasonic!

Mega xx

across

the chocolate bread was very strange as it looked like cake but had the texture of bread i'm not sure if i like it or not it was a bit bitter too!!!!!!
also can anyone help me make bread that isnt as yellow in colour i would prefer a more white looking loaf and what happens if you use milk instead of powdered? also i find that the colour is quite dark all the way round can anyone tell me if theirs is the same! so far i have made basic white,sandwich, and chocolate loaf and have run out of flour awaiting asda delivery tomorrow cant wait for weekend of breadmaking!(have ordered white and wholemeal flour,nutmeg and mixed fruit! and next i want to begin the jam programmes are they any good? thanks for your help fellow breadmakers!

JillD_2

I tried chocolate bread in my BM - well, it schocloate, its gotta be nice I thougt. Well it was vile! It was bread only vageukly chocolatey and like across said, faintly biter. Next time I will just make chocolate sponge cake instead

heatherw_01

I asked this in the Morphy Richards BM thread, but I thought I would ask in here.

Can anyone tell me how I get the right water temperature?

What should it feel like, as I do not have a thermometer.