Is home made bread cheaper?

marmiterulesok

the_cake wrote: »

I am getting a bit evangelical about this recipe for a BM loaf which includes chickpeas, but having made the lovely "Poshpaw's Seeded Loaf" from this site for ages, this is my new favourite.
it is:
250ml liquid: I use about 2/3 water and 1/3 milk
30ml extra virgin olive oil
175g well drained tinned chick peas
500g strong white bread flour
1.5 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 sachet easy blend dried yeast

My BM is the Kenwood Rapid-Bake (£5 in a charity shop last year, and now my absolute favourite kitchen helper ..) I used programme 2, which is the basic large white loaf. The loaf came out very light, moist and with a slightly nutty flavour, and little dark specks.
It seems to stay really fresh and moist for ages (well three days, which is the longest a loaf lasts in this house),it's easy and, at the moment, very cheap if you have a large Mr. M supermarket near you, as the KTC brand chick peas are only 20p a tin. Also, I would definitely recommend the Lidl strong white flour, very good indeed.

Sounds like a nice loaf.Do you add the chick peas whole or mashed up?

sunnyface

maganan wrote: »

Hi Sunny,

I treated myself to a bread maker in February and havn't bought a loaf of bread since. We love it its much less salty than bought bread and I used to buy supermarket bakery bread not pre packed.

I tend to use allinsons seed and grain (£1/1kg) and hovis granary (£1.29/1kg) in a half and half mix - comes out as a lovely farmhouse loaf, so 2 bags gives me 4 loaves and a bit left over which I just combine in the next loaf. The yeast is 69p for 8 sachets which probably does around 20is loaves so the cost per loaf is approx 60p which is half what I was paying.

DS loves white toast so I also to an occassional white loaf but I just use sm@rt price plain at 52p/1.5kg which would work out at less than 25p per loaf and is on a par with supermarket bakery white loaves except I know exactly whats in mine!

Sorry costings are just off the top of my head

Sunny I've seen you over on the mutual support board and just wanted to say welcome the whole sites fab

Kate

Thank you for the welcome - I'm really glad I've joined up - it makes everything far less daunting, and have come across really hepful and friendly people so far

Where do you get the 52p [EMAIL="sm@rt"]sm@rt[/EMAIL] price flour - is that asda?

sunnyface

bblackcat wrote: »

I was suspicious at first and thought it would just be a phase, but I use it all the time and wouldn't be without it now.

Me too - but it's so outrageously easy, I just can't see how i would find it a chore. I set the timer too so get up to the smell every day :j

maganan

Hi Sunny,

yeah its asda, must admit I use the cheap flour for all my baking and never have any complaints

Lazy_Liz

pinkmami wrote: »

Another annoying thing is the blade in the bottom of the loaf..........:mad:

I have a super gadget for getting the blade out....a plastic chop stick!
Also try Cake Release from Lakeland Ltd

Naf

I was just going to set up an excel spreadhseet to compare prices/weights etc today for exactly this question. What a handy thread. I was reckoning a loaf costing around 30-50p, but being about half the size of shop bought ones, and lasting a day or two at a time (before its eaten, not gone bad). So I'd use about £2 a week on shop loaves, and from 80p to £3.50 a week on home made. Might not save all the time, but its convenient, tasty, smells great and I reckon healthier. Now I just need practise cutting slices that don't start about 1cm, and finish around 3 lol.
Anyone have a BM recipe (or even oven I guess) for Corn Bread (i.e. made from cornmeal/flour instead of wheat flour). Its very popular in Holland (where my wife comes from) and I love it whenever we visit, but I just can't seem to find it here.

Naf

Lazy_Liz wrote: »

I have a super gadget for getting the blade out....a plastic chop stick!
Also try Cake Release from Lakeland Ltd

I was amazed yesterday when 1. my loaf actually baked properly (my third attempt; first time I used fluid oz instead of weighing the liquid, so it never mixed or cooked; second time I misread the recipe and used tblspoon instead of tsp for the salt and it just didn't rise); and 2. the blade just slid out of the bread and stayed in the bottom of the pan.

lifebeginsat...

really, really want to make a loaf now, after seeing these lovely, inticing recipes so annoyed that mine wont work, ive changed the fuse, its a real puzzle.:mad:

Farway

Naf wrote: »

Now I just need practise cutting slices that don't start about 1cm, and finish around 3 lol.
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I had this problem, solved by buying & using an electric knife [Morrison's £5], just slices it straight instead of my door stops

mmmsnow

Naf wrote: »

I was reckoning a loaf costing around 30-50p, but being about half the size of shop bought ones

My BM has three sizes. The largest one makes an 800g loaf. The bread tends to be taller than shop bought so you get a longer slice (and you may need a long slot toaster!).

If you add butter to the recipe, the loaves keep for a couple days and it's still nice toasted on the third day (if there's any left).

As for cornbread, I've found one in my favourite book "The Bread Machine Cookbook" by Jennie Shapter but it's Bubble Cornbread and seems to be an American recipe (it involves cornmeal, drained sweetcorn and chillis). I don't think it's what you're after.