Breadmaker question!!!

SillyHilly_2

Please can anyone help me with this question.

I have just got a breadmaker and have been following the recipes in ' fresh bread in the morning' but the one thing I don't understand is what size to set your loaf to. The recipe tells you what quantities of ingredients to use it still dosen't tell you what size to set the loaf to.

What determines the loaf size?

Sorry if I'm being a bit thick asking this but I can't get anything other than packet bread mixes to work.

Thanks

Hilary

Gingham_Ribbon

What type of breadmaker do you have? The panasonic has the sizes on the recipes then s,m,l on the display to choose from.

moggins

I'm really glad you asked that question as I was puzzling the same thing, my breadmaker only makes one size loaves but the recipe book I bought (which is fantastic and lists putting the ingredients in exactly the way I normally do it) has quantities for three different sizes. I thought I would try the middle one first to be on the safe side.

raeble

Your instruction manual should tell you what size loaves the breakmaker makes. In bread maker cook book the three different sizes are usually small = 1llb, medium = 1.5llb and large = 2llb.

comping_cat

My manual shows the 3 different measurements needed for each size loaf, so each recipe has 3 amounts listed under it.

saving-grace

I have this book and most of the recipes seem to use 500g flour.
For my Panasonic breadmaker I set it to Large (as the settings are Medium 400g, Large 500g and Extra Large 600g)
If you have a different BM just use whatever setting is for 500g

SillyHilly_2

It is an Hinari Breadmaker with 1.5lb 2lb and 2.5lb settings.

I'm still a bit puzzled though.

If I want a 2lb loaf for example, what quantity of flour would I use?

Sorry, I'm a bit slow today!!

comping_cat

This is the recipe from my MR, but im sure it will work in your machine,

1 1/2 cups water (tepid)
4 tbsp skimmed milk powder
4 tbsp sunflower oil
3 tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
4 cups strong white bread flour
1 1/4 tsp yeast

HTH!!!! Once i got the hang of it, i now leave out the salt, and use less sugar (its my children that eat the most bread!!!) but you might want to try the recipe in full the first couple of times to get the hang of it!!!!

WickyWickyWa

1 1/2 cups water (tepid)
4 tbsp skimmed milk powder
4 tbsp sunflower oil
3 tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
4 cups strong white bread flour
1 1/4 tsp yeast

Is that for a 2lb loaf? I have a fairly cheap breadmaker and the recipes that came with it dont seem to work too well. The loafs always seem to come out too small and not mixed properly. Although i think it may just be a poor quality maker. Hence, I've gotten fairly good at making it by hand, which everyone likes, but it takes too long.
The make of my maker is Cookware from Tesco.

Diflower

The recipes that use 500g of flour are for a 2lb loaf.

Some models (like mine, an oldish MR one) only have small or large settings, and the large is only for a 1 1/2lb loaf, which is about 400g or 3 cups of flour.
I use the 'fresh bread in the morning' book, but then use the manual to get the quantities right. It's fairly simple, once you adjust the total flour amount, the exact amounts of sugar/milk/fat are not that important, so just make a note of what you use and adjust it next time if it's not quite right.

Turkishdreamer

This explains so much, couldn't make out why all the packet breadmixes were in 500 gm packs.

Have adjusted my measurements tonight, so hope will work out ok.