The Morphy Richards BM Club

TNG

lynzpower wrote:

is it possible to set this BM to bake and be ready in the morning, or do you have to "set & go" ??

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I have a friend who has a BM and he says NEVER do this. What happens is that you wake up at 4 in the morning and smell freshly baking bread and there's NO WAY you're getting back to sleep after that!!:D

lynzpower

Oh no, I can remain asleep and eat. Allegedly I ate a Christmas size bag of twiglets when I was fast asleep once, and Ive definately made myself a fried egg sandwich before when fast asleep.

Nothing comes in the way of me and my kip or me and my food :beer:

TNG

lynzpower wrote:

Oh no, I can remain asleep and eat. Allegedly I ate a Christmas size bag of twiglets when I was fast asleep once, and Ive definately made myself a fried egg sandwich before when fast asleep.

Nothing comes in the way of me and my kip or me and my food :beer:

now THAT is a skill!!!

lynzpower

TNG wrote:

now THAT is a skill!!!

Dont ask me how the yolk was, probably a bit hard, I never get it perfect, but at least when I was asleep I didnt whinge about it!

Fritha_2

There's a timer function on it Lynz, essentially, do it all as if you're going to set it off straight away. Then, instead of turning it on press the timer up button until it gets to the amount of time it would take to get to when you want it to finish. Then turn it on! That was a bit rambley so an example: it's half three, you want bread at half ten, so set the timer so it says 7.00 on the display. It automatically starts the bread so it's finished when you want :-)

I've done this a few times and it's lovely (and the marcellous bready smell didn't wake me up!)


I hope that actually makes sense! Have fun playing!

Chipps

lynzpower wrote:

is it LOL I must have overlooked that in my excitement!

The 1/4 teaspoon measure should be there ...

...unless you manage to leave it under the bucket when baking a loaf...

..... then it doesn't measure anything any more....!!!!:o

sproggi

Cake recipes from my MR FB book (I have not tried any of these, so cannot vouch for how they turn out):

Standard cake mix

Ingredients group 1
3/4 cup softened/melted butter
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
4 medium eggs beaten
3/8 cup Tepid water

Ingredients group 2
2 cups Plain white flour
2 tsp Baking powder
1/4 cup Caster sugar

Use setting CAKE

Method
Mix group 1 together
Sieve group 2 together
Combine groups 1 & 2 together
Put into breadpan
Select cake setting
Push start button

Variations

Cherries - 1/2 cup of cherries, halved (wash thoroughly to remove excess syrup) and allow them to dry and drain on absorbent paper.

or

Mixed fruit - 1/2 cup

or

Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Add any of these variations into the breadpan last, on top of the other ingredients.


Banana Nut Cake

Ingredient group 1
2 tbsp Butter
1 tbsp Milk
1 cup Banana (mashed)
1 large egg
1/2 cup Walnuts (chopped)
1 tsp Lemon rind

Ingredient group 2
1 & 1/2 cups Plain white flour
1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/2 cup Granulated sugar
1/4 tsp Salt

Use setting CAKE

Method as for Standard cake mix


Apple & walnut cake

Ingredient group 1
2 tbsp Softened butter
1 tbsp Milk
1 & 1/4 cups Raw,grated,peeled,Granny Smith apples
(note: Drain apples to remove excess juice before mixing with other ingredients)
1 large Egg
1/2 cup Chopped walnuts
1/2 cup Chopped dates (optional)

Ingredient group 2
2 cups Plain white flour
1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/2 cup Granulated sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp Ground nutmeg

Use setting CAKE

Method as for Standard cake mix


Sproggi

cats_whiskers

Hi again

Feeling quite pleased with myself as I have now made my first loaf in the BM. I realised I did not have any sunflower oil so I done a sandwich loaf as this used butter. It did not turn out as large as I expected however, it does taste fine and OH agreed, hopefully will be OK for tomorrows toast and sandwiches.

I will try to get some sunflower oil tomorrow as I want to try the fastbake loaf, just so that I can compare.

Also, thanks for the cake recipes Sproggi

Cats

lynzpower

Hi all again

I am about to do another loaf

I have a half bag of hovis granary flour in the cupbaord, thought Id use that up. DO you reckon I follow the recipe for ""softgrain"bread ?

cats_whiskers

Hi Lynzpower

I think the one for softgrain bread would be OK. Let us know how it turns out.

I got some sunflower oil this morning and I currently have a large fastbake loaf in the BM. I will let you know how it turns out.

Cats:rotfl: