Home Made Bread Please Help!!!!!!

sarah1

Hi All
has anyone got any IDIOT PROOF recipies for bread.
Bread is grey and tastes really yeasty, not nice at all.

mossstar

Hi there

I usually just make pizza base and dough balls (with garlic butter, mmmmmmmmmm!) with this, but have also made into rolls for packed lunches when realised we don't have any bread, and occasionally mix half and half with stoneground flour for a loaf.

1lb flour (work out how much this is in your measurig jug, then in future you can just do that and not have to get your scales out)
1/2 pint warm water, into which you mix:
1 desert spoon sugar
1 desert spoon Allisons dried yeast (from supermarkets, in the little orange tin)
put a pinch of salt in the flour, btw.

If you do the water/yeast/sugar first, you can let it stand for 5-10 mins till it froths a bit (about a cm on the top).

I keep small amounts (yogurt pots) of homemade tomato sauce in the freezer, and with two lidls' mozeralla (about 50p each) we have YUMMY pizza most friday nights (i'm serious, these rival any pizza express, especially with the doughballs!!).

Good luck! When you do your first knead, you should get to that point where the dough feels just gorgeous and 'silken', i always think it feels like my one year old's cheek (but then i'm a soppy thing!).

Steph

ps did you know that only 'stoneground' flour is the whole flour that's not mucked about with - anything else, no matter whether it's called 'wholegrain' or 'multigrain' or 'wholewheat' will be white flour with the brown stuff added BACK IN! :eek: along with loads of chemicals... yuck!

Glad

hi

I'll move this over to 'Old Style' where I'm sure you'll be inundated with replies

Debt_Free_Chick

Bread is grey and tastes really yeasty, not nice at all.

Unfortunately, you've been duped by the rubbish that's normally sold and passed off as "bread".

Yes it is grey. Shop sold bread contains bleaching agents to hide this.

Yes it should taste yeasty. But shop bought bread contains "improver" and other stuff to mask this.

and it should be "dense" not fluffy like cotton wool.

It sounds as though you have it right, but if in doubt, Saint Delia (as ever) has the foolproof lowdown here

http://www.deliaonline.com/cookeryschool/howto/how_0000000018.asp

http://www.deliaonline.com/cookeryschool/howto/how_0000000019.asp

Or this is very different. Think of a bread sized savoury scone. It's delicious!

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/r_0000001760.asp

Curry_Queen

mossstar wrote:

1 desert spoon Allisons dried yeast (from supermarkets, in the little orange tin)

Can this yeast be used in breadmakers? I'm fed-up paying more for the Hovis sachets, as recommended by my breadmaker manual, but I can't find any info online to say whether it's the same stuff as in the big tins

moggins

I bought Tesco own brand yeast the last time, it cost 57p for 8 sachets.

Ticklemouse

I've always used the stuff in the little tins and my brown bread is great. My white, is however, a bit of a disappointment, but as it only rises properly on one side, I put it down to my cheapy breadmaker.

BTW I have a cookworks 1.5 lb breadmaker and have lost the recipe book. Anyone got any ordinary white and brown/wholemeal loaf recipes? Can't remember the amounts to put in.

Mustang

For bread machines, try using the yeast that you can buy from Lakeland and other shops (but not supermarkets). It's made by Dove. Do a search in Lakeland's website for yeast. This is a 125g packet of yeast that'll last for ages, and it makes good bread.

For a standard loaf, I use a flat teaspoon of yeast.

I have a Panasonic and a Russell Hobbs Pro breadmachine, and the following recipe works very well in both, both as loaves or rolls. Add in this order:

1 tsp salt
210 g water
15 g EV olive oil
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp milk powder
350 g flour - I use 3/4 white, 1/4 stoneground
1 tsp yeast

All ingredients, as much as possible, are organic.

Lillibet_2

Mustang wrote:

For bread machines, try using the yeast that you can buy from Lakeland and other shops (but not supermarkets). It's made by Dove. Do a search in Lakeland's website for yeast. This is a 125g packet of yeast that'll last for ages, and it makes good bread./QUOTE]


I second this, it is quite the best yeast I have found for use with my breadmaker (don't know how it works with hand made bread?) & at only 99p a bag it is a great price too! They also sell it in store if you have one near you.

Curry_Queen

Thanks to both of you for the recommendation

I've just ordered some from their website (£1 a pack) and managed to pick up a few other little bargains too which helped to off-set the delivery charge a bit.

Mustang, what size loaf would those ingredients make? My basic white recipe uses 600g of flour to make a 750g loaf in a Breville Compact. Also does 1kg loaf using around 700g flour.

chrisico

The yeast in the little orange vaccuum pack by Dove is also sold in health food shops for 99p.A bargain as it lasts me about 2 months ( I keep it inthe fridge once opened). I bake in my breadmaker about 6 times a week as we are quite greedy for real bread and so much cheaper than cake!!