Vitamin C and Bread

jess444_2

I also use Tesco Value tablets - crush 2 in each loaf - after reading about it n this site. This and using the wholemeal setting for all bread has definately improved my bread.

Justamum

I don't make wholemeal bread, but do use some wholemeal flour in it. I find home-made wholemeal bread tends to be quite heavy, so what I do is use 80g of wholemeal flour and 420g white. I'm going to up the wholemeal though so that I'm eventually going to be 20% wholemeal. I have to do it gradually otherwise my DS might not eat it! It's taken me a while to convert him to homemade bread from the bought white. He does actually prefer my bread now though. (should think so too )

2boysmum

Have been making hubby granary bread which he loves but hasn't been rising very well. It says add a vitamin c tablet to the mix to help the rise, could I use effervescent ones or would I have dough spilling out the breadmaker?

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I think they are 1000 mg tabs. I used to sometimes use a 60 mg tab when hand baking, when I was using yeast I was doubtful about. I would use a teeny bit of one of your big ones in the water, not more than 1/10 of a tab

Pink.

Hi 2boysmum,

I have seen posts where Old Stylers have said that they use effervescent vitamin C tablets but I just use ordinary vitamin C tablets crushed with a spoon.

There's an earlier thread on using Vitamin C in the breadmaker:

Vitamin C and Bread

I'll add your post to it later to keep the replies together.

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Oakey22

well i know this is an old thread, i have a loaf in the Panasonic breadmaker at the moment and i put 1 500mg vit c tablet, the white ones you get from sainsburys, which i think i put too much in though. I also have some of those efferescent ones, the sort you put in water, which is best?

onetomany

hi went to look in lacol health food shop today to look if their did a yeast enancher, for my bread and one of the baking tins with lid on (soz forgot what was called anyway lady said the yeast enancher was just vitamin c powder, and handed me a tub it was alot cheap £3.99 than ithe one in lakeside online , on tub it says drink mix also idea for bread making but dosent say how much or one to put in machine any tips please?

Pink.

Hi onetomany,

I add 100mg of vit c to make a 2lb loaf. Mine is in 200g tablet form so I just crush half a tablet and add it to the flour.

There's an earlier thread on using vitamin c in the breadmaker that should help so I've added your post to it to keep the replies together.

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borischelski

Hi guys

I appreciate this is an old thread but this is a A novice here !

I have vit c powder but what do i use to accurately measure 100mg of vit c powder ?

ie is it say 25% of a small tea spoon , or say half a thimble full ?


mAYBE SILLY QUESTION BUT ANY HELP APPRECIATED .

rEGARDS