The Morphy Richards BM Club

mumoftwo

Thank you, I have digital scales, so I will try that. What do you with the water then? Just measure it in a jug? My jug is not that acurate with lots of grading, Or use the "one" cup and the "half" cup? Sorry to sound dim

skinnygirlnot

I never use a jug for my liquid measures. If the recipe asks for 330ml of liquid for example then I just use my digital scales and 'weigh' 330g of water straight into the pan. My bread (in my Breadman Ultimate and now my Panasonic) is always excellent.

chookwoose

Can I join the club please? Hubby bought me pne about 6 months ago. It's fab, I like to make the rolls, they are yummy.

nell2

skinnygirlnot wrote: »

I never use a jug for my liquid measures. If the recipe asks for 330ml of liquid for example then I just use my digital scales and 'weigh' 330g of water straight into the pan. My bread (in my Breadman Ultimate and now my Panasonic) is always excellent.

That's a really good idea! I will do that from now on!:j

nell2

Was just wondering whether anyone had tried Tesco's strong white bread flour - it is a lot cheaper than Hovis, Allinsons etc. Think I'm going to be getting through a lot of flour, so am looking at which brands of flour work best.
(Am using the Doves Farm yeast which seems really good)

PS Made a pizza base in BM this evening which was really lovely!

lil_me

I've managed to use plain flour without even increasing yeast and it tastes fine. Something that I think is worth experimenting.

ivyleaf

Hooray, finally found space in the kitchen for the BM and baked my first loaf this morning! TBH I was prepared for it to have gone wrong, so we bought some rolls at the baker's to be on the safe side, but it came out well. It's a 2lb loaf. Thanks to this thread, I used 2 tbsp of sugar instead of three. I wasn't sure whether I should use extra yeast to compensate or not, so I didn't, and the loaf was shorter than I'd expected , i.e., it didn't rise right to the top of the pan, but I don't know whether it should have or not! Should it? If so, I'll try a little more yeast next time. It was nice and springy though, and tasted good, though the crust was slightly sweet.:D I used Hovis flour, but I'm sure I remember reading elsewhere on the OS board that the Hovis, Asda and Tesco flours all come out of the same hopper, so will try Asda's when the Hovis is finished.

Thanks to all the previous posters on this thread - it's been really helpful!:j

furndire

Try Lidls strong bread flour ~ cheapest I've found, and works fine.

madmum33

nell2 wrote: »

Was just wondering whether anyone had tried Tesco's strong white bread flour - it is a lot cheaper than Hovis, Allinsons etc. Think I'm going to be getting through a lot of flour, so am looking at which brands of flour work best.
(Am using the Doves Farm yeast which seems really good)

PS Made a pizza base in BM this evening which was really lovely!

Tesco's strong white bread flour works very well, I use 4 bags a fortnight with no problems, plus the Doves Farm yeast

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nell2 wrote: »

Was just wondering whether anyone had tried Tesco's strong white bread flour - it is a lot cheaper than Hovis, Allinsons etc. Think I'm going to be getting through a lot of flour, so am looking at which brands of flour work best.
(Am using the Doves Farm yeast which seems really good)

PS Made a pizza base in BM this evening which was really lovely!

I use both tesco and asda strong white bread flours all the time and haven't found them to be any different from the Hovis, Allinsons etc.

Also to cut costs even further I use half and half strong bread flour and value plain flour. The bread doesn't look or taste any different at all. I know some people here just opt for plain flour, but I haven't tried that yet.

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