Yikes!,ive just put SR flour in my breadmaker!

cooking-mama

was making a wholemeal/white mix,using rachel allen breadmaker i was adding 3 cups strong white flour and 1 cup wholemeal,its only now ive put the bags away i realise ive used 1 cup(aprox 144) Self raising wholemeal flour,(instead of bread flour)what should i expect?,will it overflow?or should i risk it and see what happens?,anyone else ever been as daft as me and done this before?:o

bitemebankers

Don't risk it - you may ruin your breadmaker and cause a fire.

horsechestnut

It will be O.K. as it's only a small proportion of the recipe, although you will probably have a loaf with a more closed texture and it may be slightly smaller.

The_Mighty_Gusset

It's not going to overflow.
Self-Raising flour doesn't have the gluten strength of plain flour - so your bread won't rise as much.
Self-Raising flour is intended for cake making (though why would you make wholemeal cakes ?)
Having said that - I've made the same error myself (although not in a bread maker) and at a ratio of 3-1 the bread wasn't a bad texture at all - not as 'heavy' as with plain wholewheat flour.

The_Mighty_Gusset

horsechestnut wrote: »

It will be O.K. as it's only a small proportion of the recipe, although you will probably have a loaf with a more closed texture and it may be slightly smaller.

Absolutely.
I agree 100% with Horsechestnut - that's the result I got.

MrsBartolozzi

I've done this before when making pizza dough and TBH I was surprised it hadn't risen as much as I expected it to. No real difference from normal. You have only used a quarter of the flour volume with SR flour so I'd not worry too much, leave it to go.
If you are a bit concerned though, have a watch after about 1.5 hours (depending on your cycle, mine has finished rising by then). If it has risen scarily, remove from machine and shape into rolls or loaves and cook in the oven, all you have to do is then clean out the machine, not too bad.

cooking-mama

Thanks guys,rather than waste it il hope for the best,im not going out anyway so il keep an eye on it and if i think it has over risen before baking il take it out...even if it doesnt taste too good il feed it to the birdies(as long as it doesnt wreck my BM i dont mind:eek:)
Gus,id bought SR wholemeal for a carrot cake recipe...that i never got around to making:rolleyes:

cooking-mama

update---my bread turned out deliciouse,perfectly risen and lighter than usual,very pleased with the result....talk about learning from our mistakes:rotfl:. Im gonna finish the bag of Wholemeal SR in this way.(well im never gonna make the carrot cake anyway)

bitemebankers

Glad to hear it turned out okay in the end. When I once used SR flour for Yorkshires the reaction was a little more lively, shall we say...