The Morphy Richards BM Club

jimmyboy420

hello folks, It's ask a silly question time.

The recipe book for my MR breadmaker says "skimmed milk powder" but I've bought "dried skimmed milk". I am 99.99% sure these are the same thing, but just thought I'd check on here:p

Cheers,

Jimmyboy!

furndire

jimmyboy420 wrote: »

hello folks, It's ask a silly question time.

The recipe book for my MR breadmaker says "skimmed milk powder" but I've bought "dried skimmed milk". I am 99.99% sure these are the same thing, but just thought I'd check on here:p

Cheers,

Jimmyboy!

Yes they are the same thing - a lot of people don't bother to use it, so don't panic if you haven't got any. Same with butter, I use oil instead.

jimmyboy420

Thanks

Well my first loaf doesn't look to be doing that great. I measured all the ingredients carefully, but with half an hour left (I'm doing a normal brown loaf which takes three hours), the bread is pressing right up against the viewing window, so I assume it's risen too much!!!

The salt I used was quite coarse. I am concerned that this may have caused the problem as one of the reasons for this problem mentioned in the trouble shooting guides is "too little salt".

nickyhutch

Thanks to everyone who's posted on here. My son has demolished what he tells me was a "top drawer" loaf. I can't eat at the moment (VLCD) but the smell was more than worth it.

nickyhutch

Another query. We're loving the bread, but all the measuring faff (especially using the spoons for wet and dry ingredients - grrr) is getting on my nerves. Flour and stuff everywhere! I wondered if I could weigh the required quantities and use them in future. Has anyone else done this, and does it work?

Thanks for reading. Off to put the Italian Herb Bread in

JulieM

I used to have the MR fastbake and I recall that somewhere in the manual it gave the weight of a cup of flour. I found it much easier to weigh it out than use the cup to measure and the loaves came out well. Sorry I no longer have the book as I upgraded to a panasonic.

JulieM

Have just come across a note of the recipe I used when I had my MR.

Basic White Loaf
Yeast 1.25 tsp
Flour 430g
Sugar 2.25 tbsp
Butter 25g
Salt 1.25 tsp
Water 270ml
Sk milk 2.5 tbsp

You'll still need the measure for some of the ingredients but it does make life easier if you can weigh out the flour and butter. As you're only using the spoon measure for dry ingredients you don't need to keep washing it out. Hope this helps.

nickyhutch

Julie, thanks so much; that's a great help.

mazza1970

Oooh can I join the club please got my MR fastbake BM today and I have just done my first loaf, just waiting for it to cool so I can have some . Hope it is okay as this is the first BM I have owned.

zippychick

mazza1970 wrote: »

Oooh can I join the club please got my MR fastbake BM today and I have just done my first loaf, just waiting for it to cool so I can have some . Hope it is okay as this is the first BM I have owned.

Eat it warm, that's the privilege of the breadmaker!:p