Kenwood Breadmaker questions tips etc

skyelark

Swan wrote: »

hi cooking-mama,
that's a shame it didn't work

I'm sure there was a thread a while ago about slicing bread & a couple of people were using mechanical slicers, I'll see if I can find it, maybe there'll be some tips

yes try out your Kenwood knife, I got one recently & I don't know how I managed without it
well I do, I'd only get about 6 slices out of a loaf

Swan wrote: »

can't seem to find that thread, but I'll keep looking, watch this space ...

I know it's out there somewhere, because I was pontificating about how you only need a good breadknife & good technique to cut your HM bread
in mitigation, this was in pre Panny & Kenwood days when I'd only had experience of a *Morphy Richards BM


*don't get me wrong, I love solid rustic bread, but if I want a light white loaf, I want the lightest fluffiest white loaf, not cake

Thats such a shame about the slicer Cooking Mama:(. I am def going to dig out my electric knife from its high hideaway tonight.
Made a lovely, egg enriched 1kg loaf last night. It looked as if it had been cut by a woman with broken fingers in the end :rotfl:

Swan, with you on the 'cakey bread'. I like bread to taste, well...bready!:)

cooking-mama

Update on the slicer...it has been fantastic for slicing roast pork joint today,cant believe the number of slices i got from it,,realy good for "stretching" meat for sandwiches etc too..and it worked well with the small loaf,i got almost double the bread slices i normaly would have,will try the electric knife on a large loaf tomorrow.

skyelark

cooking-mama wrote: »

Update on the slicer...it has been fantastic for slicing roast pork joint today,cant believe the number of slices i got from it,,realy good for "stretching" meat for sandwiches etc too..and it worked well with the small loaf,i got almost double the bread slices i normaly would have,will try the electric knife on a large loaf tomorrow.

Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it! I really need to get my slicing sorted somehow. I am rubbish.:o

skyelark

Wonder if you could all put up your fave thing to do in the BM?
Mine is the Brioche and the Pizza dough! I haven't been able to work my way through the book yet though.

Swan_2

my favourite things are Posh Paw's bread with all the seeds in (I have one on now) & a spicy cheese bread adapted from my old MR recipe book

I haven't tried many of the recipes from the Kenwood book I need to be more adventurous



bit OT this ... I made my standard Italian olive oil bread recipe by hand & made a sunblush tomato & parmesan tear & share & baked it in the oven, I think it might become a favourite

I wonder if you could make the dough in the machine, do the monkey bread/tear & share shaping & then bake it in the machine? :think:

I'm busy for the next few days, but I might give it a go on Sunday

skyelark

:huh:

Swan wrote: »

my favourite things are Posh Paw's bread with all the seeds in (I have one on now) & a spicy cheese bread adapted from my old MR recipe book

I haven't tried many of the recipes from the Kenwood book I need to be more adventurous



bit OT this ... I made my standard Italian olive oil bread recipe by hand & made a sunblush tomato & parmesan tear & share & baked it in the oven, I think it might become a favourite

I wonder if you could make the dough in the machine, do the monkey bread/tear & share shaping & then bake it in the machine? :think:

I'm busy for the next few days, but I might give it a go on Sunday

God, that sounds delicious! I love savoury breads! I really need to start hand made loaves. I have a wee bit of time over the weekend, hoping to do some then
What is monkey bread? :huh:

Swan_2

skyelark wrote: »

:huh:

God, that sounds delicious! I love savoury breads! I really need to start hand made loaves. I have a wee bit of time over the weekend, hoping to do some then
What is monkey bread? :huh:

monkey bread has a few different names, but it's basically just the dough cut into chunks or rolled into small balls & piled into a tin or heaped on to a baking tray, allowed to prove then baked
you don't slice it, everyone just pulls off a bit to eat

you can dip the balls/chunks into sweet or savoury mixtures before putting them to rise, add toppings, your imagination is the only limit
there's a very simple but excellent idea from thriftlady in the first post on the Adventures With Bread Dough thread where you just chop the dough, rearrange it in a pile & chop it again, do that as often as you like then put it to rise

I've done it with plain dough to serve with soup & it went down really well

skyelark

Swan wrote: »

monkey bread has a few different names, but it's basically just the dough cut into chunks or rolled into small balls & piled into a tin or heaped on to a baking tray, allowed to prove then baked
you don't slice it, everyone just pulls off a bit to eat

you can dip the balls/chunks into sweet or savoury mixtures before putting them to rise, add toppings, your imagination is the only limit
there's a very simple but excellent idea from thriftlady in the first post on the Adventures With Bread Dough thread where you just chop the dough, rearrange it in a pile & chop it again, do that as often as you like then put it to rise

I've done it with plain dough to serve with soup & it went down really well

Sounds nice. I will add it to my list of things to try.:)
Just ordered fresh yeast from amazon. 500g, which can be frozen in 25g blocks when wrapped up. Looking forward to the delivery so I can try it in my HM reipes!:T
It has really good reviews. Have you tried it?

cooking-mama

I have only made bread..plain white or a kind of 50/50...keep meaning to try the cheese n onion recipe i have(mine is a morphy richards recipe too)I vaguely remember making the cheese n onion recipe from the kenwood book in the past,it was very very nice,but involved a lot of faffing around with frying onions firts etc.
Anyway so far ,my favourite is programme 2,rapid white(makes better bread than basic recipe on programme 1)

skyelark

cooking-mama wrote: »

I have only made bread..plain white or a kind of 50/50...keep meaning to try the cheese n onion recipe i have(mine is a morphy richards recipe too)I vaguely remember making the cheese n onion recipe from the kenwood book in the past,it was very very nice,but involved a lot of faffing around with frying onions firts etc.
Anyway so far ,my favourite is programme 2,rapid white(makes better bread than basic recipe on programme 1)

I will need to check which one I have used. I will have to look at the cheese and onion recipe. It sounds good. The savoury bread that Swan described yesterday sounds fab too. Made my mouth water!:drool:
Has anyone tried the mail order fresh yeast from Amazon? Can it be used in BMs?