Milk powder in breadmaker

purplepardalis

For cutting the bread evenly it's only easy if you have a really good quality bread knife. We have one from our richer days luckily! The flimsier ones never seem to cut it straight!

mgardner

RosyRed wrote: »

I usually put the milk powder in,but sometimes forget.As people say it doesnt seem to make too much difference,though I sometimes think it keeps a bit better.I use oil instead of butter too.
As for cutting-I have an electric slicer from Argos.Yes its an extra expense,but you can cut it as soon as its cooled down and you get more (straight) slices out of your loaf.[/QUOTE

What kind of electric slicer is this please, I am totally useless at cutting homemade bread.

Beverley_Bill

septemberblues wrote: »

Very interesting about the milk powder in bread, I use a bread maker and put in the advised tablespoon of milk powder, bread tastes lovely BUT is impossible to cut until it's about 3 days old! Which is a nuisance because if I'm going to eat it I want it fresh in a sandwich on the day it is made :mad:

I have reduced the salt and sugar, next time I will omit the milk powder and see what happens.

Anyone got any tips cutting the bread? I use a knife and it seems impossible to cut a straight slice of bread, it's always really thick at one end and nonexistant on the other!

Have you seen this link?;) selectspecs.com
I have a £1.99 bread knife from Wilkinson and it cuts perfect slices everytime.

LilacLillie

I've never seen milk mentioned for my BM, only for the milk loaf.
I have a new tin of Marvel milk I have no use for, can I put some dried powder in my machine?
If so, how much and at what stage would you suggest?
LL

LilacLillie

I'm making a loaf later today, can anyone help out with explaining how to use milk please?
LL

janiebaby29

you put the dried milk in with your dry ingredients ,
for example in my BM in order first
water
oil
flour
dried milk
salt
sugar
dried yeast
HTH
for a 750gm loaf its 4 teaspoons milk powder

NJW69

All of the recipes for my MR breadmaker have skimmed milk powder but I just put the same amount of milk in as it says water and they've all been okay so far. Don't use the time delay though.

MrsE_2

ashbart wrote: »

Might be a silly question but, I've just read through this thread and it says all recipes require milk powder... I've got the panasonic SD255 and my normal white loaf doesn't have this ingredient. I know there is a milk loaf but, what exactly is a milk loaf?!? What's the difference between a sandwich (for example) with the white loaf and the milk loaf?

Still learning...! Thanks! Ash xx

I have the SD255 too & the recipe doesn't call for milk, so I'm puzzled why all the other BMs say to use it