Bread recipe

elona

Glad

I tried your daughter's recipe for bread tonight.

It did not rise - should I have covered it and left in a warm place for a while or did I perhaps not knead it enough?

Glad

I'll get her to make one tonight and watch her carefully and then report back

cath-w

Here are three easy recipes to try.  I make all my own bread and I am currently trying to make wheat tortillas but have not got it quite right yet  :(

White loaf
- 320 ml water
- 500 g white bread flour
- 1 & 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 25 g butter
- 1 tsp dried yeast

granary
- 350 ml water
- 500g granary bread flour
- 1 & 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 25 g butter
- 1 & 1/2 tsp yeast

Wholemeal flour
- 350ml water
- 350 g wholemeal bread flour
- 150 g white bread flour
-2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp sugar
-25 g butter
- 1 & 1/2 tsp dried yeast

If you are using a bread machine you need to put the ingredients in the correct order according to your bread machine instructions.  Some require the wet ingredients first and others the dry, some need half the flour, then the wet ingredients and butter, the rest of the flour and then the salt, yeast, sugar on top.

After the bread dough has risen then cook at 210 c for 35-40 mins on a greased baking tray.  I tend to top mine with seasame or sunflower seeds shaped as a large round cob shape.

C.

Caz2_2

hi, I make bread every other day. My way is-
get a plastic jug that measures a pint put half pint of cold and half a pint of boiling water in it, if you can leave your finger in for 5 seconds it is not to hot (or this will kill fresh yeast) put in 1 oz of fresh yeast (asda give it away if u ask at bread counter & morrisons sell it) and add 2 tbls of sugar mix it up put cling on a leave for 10 mins, stir again it should hiss. In a big bowl put 1kg of strong flour ( i wait till they have BOGOF and buy loads) and 2 level tbls of salt (to much and it kills yeast, salt needed for elasticity) mix with a fork (easier) add all fluid whilst mixing, knead until it is smooth about 5 mins
put olive oil all over it with your hands ( to stop it sticking) and leave in bowl and cover with cling for 1 hr knead it again for about 2 mins i cut it into 3, 2 bigger bits for loaved and a small bit for making garlic bread, put in tins and leave to rise for another hr then stick in oven you know when they are done cause you can smell them, take out knock the bottom of bread if done they sound hollow. sounds faffy but I do it in between jobs. Good luck

charliedavis

You can access the kenwood breadmaker recipe book here at http://www.kenwoodservice.co.uk/instructions/instructions-BM200new.pdf or http://www.kenwoodservice.co.uk/instructions/instructions-BM200new.pdf

Hope this helps!

r.mac_2

Glad - any further information from your daughter on her bread recipe. I would like to give it a go over the weekend?

Thanks ;D

Rx

elona

Glad

I know that you have not been feeling well but when you get a chance I would be really grateful for some guidance on the bread recipe that your daughter does.

Lychee

I tried Glad's recipe, added in 'rising' time, and my boyfriend thinks it's one of the best bread I've made (been trying different recipes for the past 6 months!). the fact that he helped himself to some more later on was a good sign! after I first kneaded the mixture together, I covered the dough with olive oil and cling film and let it rise in a warm place for an hour. took it out, kneaded again for a few minutes before putting it in a bread tin, clingfilm-ed and let rise in warm place for another 30 mins before baking for 45mins at 180 degrees.

HTH

thanks to Glad for the recipe

does anyone know the best way to store home-made bread? mine seems to go tough and chewy after a couple of days...

pavlovs_dog

Lychee wrote:

does anyone know the best way to store home-made bread? mine seems to go tough and chewy after a couple of days...

i can only presume thats because it's not pumped full the the preservatives and crap that you get when you buy shop bought bread?


i got a breadmaker today as a pressie from my boyfriend (its the welsh st valentines day today). im sooooo excited, have wanted one for ages, cant wait to try it out.

in particular, im looking to try my hand at baked bean bread (as championed by jack dee on series 1 of celeb big bro lol) has anyone else tried it?

also, are cakes made in breadmakers any good? i've been dying to have a crack at a farmhouse fruit cake and a corrot cake for ages, just dont trust my thieving student flatmates :mad:

culpepper

Lychee wrote:

does anyone know the best way to store home-made bread? mine seems to go tough and chewy after a couple of days...

Slice it up when cold and put it in the freezer.If you just like toast you can get out enough just to toast and put it straight in the toaster.

I do the same as caz2 but
I use 1tsp of sugar in my 2lb loaves and they rise fine.Also about 1tsp of salt to take the sweetness away.

My bread machine says 4tbsp of milk powder but it works just as well without.