Is home made bread cheaper?

mmmsnow

lifebeginsat... wrote: »

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:

Is it not coming on at all?

ab7167

I make my own bread, but I use an electric hand whisk with dough hooks rather than a breadmaker and do it in the over, the paddle in the bottom of the bread annoyed me too much! I've worked mine out, I buy Hovis white flour from Sainsburys, and think I calculated electric at 12p for the oven... will dig out my calcs when I get home, so I reckoned on 65p per loaf. Also I use fresh yeast from the instore baker, get 100g for 30p, which will do 6-7 loaves no problem - much cheaper than the ready yeast in sachets, but sadly you can't use in breadmachines, as far as I know (but happy to be corrected!). Sometimes I get my yeast free if I'm there at the end of the day, cos they can't use it the following day :-)

TitchTori

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

- does anyone know if Aldi sells bread flour?

Hi - does anyone know the answer to this? There is one right next to my normal supermarket but i don't know where there is a Lidl - thanks

the_cake

marmiterulesok wrote: »

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

Hullo! I just chuck them in whole, once I have drained them from the "tin juice", and given them a quick rinse. The kneading process breaks them up. Hope you like it !

GetRealBabe

Hi

I make brown seeded sourdough loaves and a very rough calculation is about £1.50 for two loaves. A sourdough loaf costs about £2.50+ to buy.

VJsmum

TitchTori wrote: »

Hi - does anyone know the answer to this? There is one right next to my normal supermarket but i don't know where there is a Lidl - thanks

Yes they do

jippylady

Since we bought a panasonic bm last year I have not bought a single loaf. Lidl white flour for husband and a 50% mix of Asda wholemeal and Sainsbury seeded wholemeal flour for me. We put some in the bread bin and slice and freeze the rest on same day. Children pre-order a loaf to take home when they visit. Bacon sandwiches with fresh white homemade bread are unbeatable. Spiced fruit loaf, malt loaf, hot cross buns, pizza dough not to mention the various mixes that shops do. I'm not sure about cost but taste and texture are better.

Swan_2

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.

I made the chickpea bread at the weekend & in spite of adding the whole of the drained tin of chickpeas by mistake it was fabulous
I'll definitely be making it again, but I'm going to cook up some dried chickpeas & open freeze them so I'll have them to hand at any time

it produced a light soft-crusted loaf with a fairly open-textured tender crumb, very, very, nice & it made wonderful toast, we like toast here

thanks tc :T


PS ... I hope you won't mind if I add it to my recipe blog? (it's for my kids, to stop them continually asking me to write out recipes for them) I'll credit you & will put in a link to your original post

Flee_2

pinkmami wrote: »

I bought a breadmaker at the start of the year - big mistake. Another gadget. I've tried countless recipies & it does not taste nice.

i prefer to go to Farm Foods & get 2 loaves of Hovis for £1.50.....I can fill my garage freezer with bread for £9.00! And it tastes nicer.

I found this too until I changed from milk powder to actual milk mixed with water. Tastes completely different and is just like shop bought fresh bread.

Mrs_Chip

We have stopped using milk powder all together - I think the recipe book with newer models of the Panasonic have dropped it too. Bread comes out absolutely fine without it.