Kenwood Breadmaker questions tips etc

skyelark

Anybody know of a good cornbread recipe I could use in the BM? Someone told me its devine, and I would love to try it:)

Fruittea

skyelark wrote: »

Hi there Fruittea,
In a breadmaker book I have, (not kenwood) it says that it costs at most 7p to 8p per cycle on BM. I really dont know what the oven-gas or elec-would cost.

I find the BM is fast, reliable and gives good quality results. Unfortunately, I am not so great with hand made bread, but Swan has kinda inspired me to have another go!

I would be really interested to find out in the cost difference if you could find out more.
I worked it out (roughly) that each loaf cost me 68p in BM. For the quality and time saving that is good. On the other hand, if I could get good at hand made, I could band 4 in the oven at once!

Going to get some good quality yeast, tried and tested recipes and have a go at HM after weekend!
:)

Many thanks Skyelark. It's surprisingly cheap. I got a whole lot of breadmix from Approved food and have started using the bm. Looking at your's and Thiftylady's pages I think I'll keep it up when the mixes have gone!!

Many thanks for the help.:beer:

Swan_2

Diflower wrote: »

I've been reading this thread over the past few days so thanks to everyone who's posted:)

I got a bargain MR breadmaker from a charity stall in the local market, it's not a fastbake but a lot of the tips still apply.
Re the ciabatta, I have this in a book -she calls it Italian-style bread, and says it's similar to ciabatta but denser. It's not cooked in the bm though, and I haven't tried it yet.

350ml water
3 tbs olive oil
11/2 tsp sea salt
500g strong white flour
1 teasp yeast.
Use the white dough setting. Have ready a thickly-floured baking tray.
When it's done use a plastic spatula to get the dough out and onto the tray, do it gently so's not to knock any air out. It will be very sticky. Use well-floured fingers to gently pat it into a rectangle about 3.5cm thick. Dust top with flour.
Leave to rise uncovered until doubled in size. Heat oven to 220c/fan200c/gas7. Put into hot oven, bake about 30 mins, cool on wire rack.

Ps. I know, this is the Kenwood thread, I did know that but I'm tired this week, sorry! I meant to add I presume it would be the same principle for any bm.

hi Diflower,
well done getting your bargain :T

your recipe looks good, I'd like to give it a go

the BM recipes do tend to be pretty much mix & match as long as you put the ingredients in in the order your manual tells you to

I skip between threads picking up tips & of course dispensing my extensive & infallible wisdom ---> :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Swan_2

skyelark wrote: »

Anybody know of a good cornbread recipe I could use in the BM? Someone told me its devine, and I would love to try it:)

I've never done cornbread in the BM, but that's because I'm not fond of it, I don't have a sweet tooth at all & it always seems just like cake to me

I made it in the oven for a Wild West night I hosted recently & I thought it was vile, but all my guests took a kerry-oot of it home with them ... mind you, they'd had a bit to drink by then

I've just had a quick Google & there are loads of recipes, but some of them have yeast in???
I'll have another look later

Swan_2

here's a recipe from Bread Machine Diva but I think you could probably try any cornbread recipe in a BM as long as you remember to cook it on the cake setting as traditional American cornbread isn't raised with yeast

but if you're Googling, watch out, there are a few that do have yeast in & if you try them, you don't want to be using the wrong programme

I won't post the recipe I used, not because there was anything wrong with it, but because it needed a can of creamed corn, which is hard to find, expensive, & tbh not very nice stuff on its own so the leftovers got binned!

skyelark

Fruittea wrote: »

Many thanks Skyelark. It's surprisingly cheap. I got a whole lot of breadmix from Approved food and have started using the bm. Looking at your's and Thiftylady's pages I think I'll keep it up when the mixes have gone!!

Many thanks for the help.:beer:

Its great to have you. Glad you found us! The more the merrier!

skyelark

Swan wrote: »

here's a recipe from Bread Machine Diva but I think you could probably try any cornbread recipe in a BM as long as you remember to cook it on the cake setting as traditional American cornbread isn't raised with yeast

but if you're Googling, watch out, there are a few that do have yeast in & if you try them, you don't want to be using the wrong programme

I won't post the recipe I used, not because there was anything wrong with it, but because it needed a can of creamed corn, which is hard to find, expensive, & tbh not very nice stuff on its own so the leftovers got binned!

Thanks (again) Swan! I will certainly check the recipe out. I might even try it without the help of a breadmaker. I did find a polenta bread recipe that seems quite savoury. I like you, dont really like sweet bread. Love brioche, but thats it, and not if its practically cake sweetness. My SIL swears I would love cornbread though and that I should try it. We'll see. If I hate it, the kids will eat it:)

I made a monster brioche last night. I did your old trick of not putting (enough) salt in. I had to open the lid and take it out to finish it in the oven!!!!! Epic fail. Flattened the top when I turned it out and it resembled a huge, deformed mushroom :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh dear!!!!!!:o

skyelark

spirit wrote: »

Morning all,

I was wandering round the car boot sale yesterday and found a Kenwood BM200 breadmaker for £5 :money: Looks like it's not been used much. There's no instruction book with it and I've not had a bread maker at all before. My internet connection was been very slow yesterday so although I found an on line copy, I couldn't download it.

I'll do that today though and then I can get cracking :T

Being a complete newbie to BMing, I'd love any hints and tips going - or recipes if possible?

Hi Spirit! If you are still around, would love to know how you getting on with your BM!

Swan_2

skyelark wrote: »

Thanks (again) Swan! I will certainly check the recipe out. I might even try it without the help of a breadmaker. I did find a polenta bread recipe that seems quite savoury. I like you, dont really like sweet bread. Love brioche, but thats it, and not if its practically cake sweetness. My SIL swears I would love cornbread though and that I should try it. We'll see. If I hate it, the kids will eat it:)

I made a monster brioche last night. I did your old trick of not putting (enough) salt in. I had to open the lid and take it out to finish it in the oven!!!!! Epic fail. Flattened the top when I turned it out and it resembled a huge, deformed mushroom :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh dear!!!!!!:o

sorry but :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:that's exactly what my Blobby Bread looked like, a giant deformed mushroom with a squared-off stem :rotfl:

you should have taken a pic I promise I will if I have any more epic fails of my own :A


spookily :eek: my daughter has just this minute texted me asking what she needs to make cornbread! she's going to a Canadian Thanksgiving (seems they celebrate earlier than the USA) & everyone's bringing along a dish


I've seen recipes involving chilli & cheese & other stuff like that, surely those can't be sweet?

Swan_2

some talk about the merits (& demerits) of sugar in cornbread on Jamie Oliver's Forum, recipe too (originally from The Joy Of Cooking) posted by a lady in Oregon