Breadmaking - recipes, hints, tips, questions

TryingToBeOldStyle

squeaky wrote: »

Slightly over a pound and a half plain loaf.

460g flour
260g water
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp milk powder (optional)
2 tbsp oil or butter or lard
2 tsp salt
1 sachet (7g) active yeast

Hi, hopefully someone can help me, Im new to breadmaking and I have the old MR Fast bake.
I tried the above recipe minus the milk powder and its just finished but its quite crispy and even though I put it on the 'light' setting its still quite dark
Is it because I didn't use the milk powder? Really disappointed I was hoping for a lovely light coloured fresh loaf but now I have a dark one with a crunchy outside

What am I doing wrong?

the_cake

Just to say that I have recently tried a recipe with a surprise new ingredient: chickpeas! Tinned ones, so very easy (and cheap) and they unexpectedly have made an absolutely gorgeous soft, nutty flavoured loaf. If anyone is interested I will post the recipe. Really chuffed it turned out so well.....

TryingToBeOldStyle

the_cake wrote: »

Just to say that I have recently tried a recipe with a surprise new ingredient: chickpeas! Tinned ones, so very easy (and cheap) and they unexpectedly have made an absolutely gorgeous soft, nutty flavoured loaf. If anyone is interested I will post the recipe. Really chuffed it turned out so well.....

Would love the recipe please
Id never have thought of adding chick peas, can't wait to try it!

the_cake

TryingToBeOldStyle wrote: »

Would love the recipe please
Id never have thought of adding chick peas, can't wait to try it!

Here it is:
250ml liquid: I use about 2/3 water and 1/3 milk
30ml extra virgin olive oil
175g well drained tinned chick peas
500g strong white bread flour
1.5 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 sachet easy blend dried yeast

My BM is the Kenwood Rapid-Bake (£5 in a charity shop last year, and now my absolute favourite kitchen helper ..) I used programme 2, which is the basic large white loaf. The chick peas were the KTC brand which were 20p a tin in Morrisons last week - they may still be - and they were a bit smaller and darker than the usual ones, although I am sure any tinned ones would be fine. The loaf came out very light, moist and with a slightly nutty flavour, and little dark specks.
Hope you enjoy it - let me know how it goes!
ETA - no cheap chick peas in my smallish local Morrisons, but loads in another, bigger one, in the Indian Food section. 20p a tin is a great price ... they had the smaller, dark brown ones which I used in the recipe above, as well as the larger, paler ones, so I bought a little stash of each.

Memory_Girl

Proud owner of 25kg bag of chapatti flour.

Has anyone had any success using this flour for anything other than chapatti? I'm thinking pitta breads etc?

MG

mymerrywidow

rchddap1 wrote: »

I can help with this one. Bought my Morphy Richards Bread maker at the weekend, and inside the recipe book is one for Chocolate Bread. This is for a 2lb loaf

Water 1.5 cups
Egg (beaten) 1 Medium
Skimmed milk powder 1.5 tbsp
sunflower oil 1.5 tbsp
sugar 3/4 cup
salt 1 tsp
chopped walnuts 0.25 cup (added on the beep)
white bread flour 3 cups
cocoa powder 0.75 cup
fast action yeast 1.5 cup :eek::eek:

Setting: Sweet

I hope this helps

Bread maker is great, have made a pizza (must remember to cut the recipe down...as our pizza grew slightly), and a wholemeal loaf. Thanks to all that encouraged me

emmm i think this should be 1.5 tsp

kittycatface

Thought I would bump up the thread to say that all allinsons products are 3 for 2 at tesco until 22/11. If you bought the guardian yesterday (Saturday 29/10) they have a 30p off coupon for any allinsons product in the weekend magazine, valid until 06/12. Hope that helps someone. I know they are not the cheapest but I like them.
I'm waiting to try out some of the recipes from this thread when I finally put the heating on as nothing is going to rise in this cold damp house atm!

northwest1965

kittycatface wrote: »

Thought I would bump up the thread to say that all allinsons products are 3 for 2 at tesco until 22/11. If you bought the guardian yesterday (Saturday 29/10) they have a 30p off coupon for any allinsons product in the weekend magazine, valid until 06/12. Hope that helps someone. I know they are not the cheapest but I like them.
I'm waiting to try out some of the recipes from this thread when I finally put the heating on as nothing is going to rise in this cold damp house atm!

Have you tried proving the bread in the fridge?:D

squeaky

Sneaky trick number 49...

I have a food covering net like this one:


If the house is really cold I sit my bread tin on the bed, cover it with the net... drape the duvet over it... then turn on the electric blanket.

Set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes. Hey presto - risen dough

I only do this if my planning is bad and I need bread in a hurry. It doesn't matter much how cold it is - bread dough WILL rise... it just takes a bit ( A LOT) longer when cold. Winter in my house means leaving it overnight!

LadyDee

Hi, I received a MR 48220 BM from Freecycle a couple of weeks ago and have made several very successful loaves.

However, hit a snag this morning. I was trying granary bread for the first time and when I set it to cook (option 4 on menu), absolutely nothing happened. Everything I'd cooked previously had been on option 1. I did cancel and start again a couple of times but no luck.

I've now started it cooking on option 1 - there's a chance it'll be OK but the alternative was just to bin the mixture. I'll see how it turns out.

Has anybody had this happen? Is it possible that some settings would work and others not?