Breadmaking - recipes, hints, tips, questions

angelavdavis

If anyone is interested and has some Christmas money left, Lakeland have just reduced the Big Book of Bread book to £2.50. Info about the book below:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Book-Bread-Recipes-Machines/dp/1844830535/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a/202-9140698-8922267

angelavdavis

hollyh wrote:

Hi I was wondering if any one can help me.

I got a bm for xmas I've tried the normal white bread and the cinnimon and raisin one. The cinnimon and raisin was slightly better but the white loaves I've made have been absolutely disgusting.

It doesn't even smell nice when it's baking.

What an earth can i be doing so wrong? I'm following the recipe but it's just not nice.

Please can someone help me before I completely lose all faith

Is the bread rising?

ethansmum

Bexstars wrote:

I have just fished out our hinari breadmaker last week to give it a try. How much do you guys pay for your flour and yeast? I paid 79p for a pack of Harvest Gold yeast with 8 sachets in and paid 61p for a bag of strong white flour. This was from Morrisons and was the cheapest I could see i the store. Could get cheaper anywhere?

LOL! you got a thanks from me for free, when I was thrying to quote you! Anyway I wanted to say that I get the Doves Farm quick yeast = its in a 125g 'block' and it lasts ages. I just use the Tescos basic strong flour.

Lyndsay_21

i've bought the aldi's breadmaker and it is very good all non packet loaves have come out really well but the paddles keep getting stuck, i mean really stuck i had to literally put my hand into the bottom of the pan and pull it out today.

any suggestions???

squeaky

Your book should tell you that you can put water in the breadpan to soak for x many minutes to free the paddle. If it doesn't give a time you'll usually find that about ten minutes is long enough.

hollyh

angelavdavis wrote:

Is the bread rising?

Yes the bread is rising really well. The one i made today was slightly better but still not nice.

There's no lovely smell coming from it either it's quite bland.

buxtonrabbitgreen

little_lil wrote:

thanks everyone for your replies. I guess that the answer will be down to trial and error.

one other quick question, i want to make malt loaf but cant find malt extract in tescos and have had a quick look online at both sainsburys and tescos and they don't have it. Any ideas where i can get it?

thanks

I got it from boots

buxtonrabbitgreen

spendaholic wrote:

... the loaf is fine. :T

So my next question is ... my bread machine book recommends that I slice the bread before freezing. Are there any domestic-sized bread slicers on the market?

I've used that Lakeland guide but it's not very good - or I'm not good with it - but how would I slice a whole loaf before freezing?

I use an electic knife to slice the bread. I got it from a charity shop too, so very mse

squeaky

Slicing bread:-

1. Leave the bread until the next day before slicing
2. Don't press with the knife because you'll squish the loaf
3. Light cutting strokes will mean that you don't cut too much at a time and so if you wander off line it won't be by much so you can more easily correct yourself.
4. Don't go for speed - go for control. Speed will come with practice.

HTH

Bexstars

ethansmum wrote:

LOL! you got a thanks from me for free, when I was thrying to quote you! Anyway I wanted to say that I get the Doves Farm quick yeast = its in a 125g 'block' and it lasts ages. I just use the Tescos basic strong flour.

Thanked you in return :rotfl:

I will look out for the doves farm yeast and will check out tesco flour, thank you