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Adventures with bread dough
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Thank you very much squeaky and Butterfly Brain for the help. I will have a go doing this next time I make teacakes.0
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would love the teacakes recipe, if possible
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I have had a breadmaker for about 10 years now. When my first one died, there was a couple of weeks gap before I could replace it and I had to buy bread. I was totally shocked how much it was and my family all moaned that they were hungry because the shop bread didn't fill them up. I make a loaf a day during the week and pizza at the weekend, I always use Lidl's flour as, having tried all the others, it's not only the cheapest but by far the best. Did I mention that I love my breadmaker?Just when I'm about to make ends meet, somebody moves the ends0
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Breadandwine wrote: »I posted this earlier in the week, but I made the mistake of including a link to my blog so the thread was pulled. Fair enough, I'll try not to transgress again.
Before it was pulled I was thanked a number of times, and, in turn, I thank those posters
So here is the post again, without the offending link:
Making your own bread can save you literally pounds per week!
I'm not just talking bread and rolls - although you can make three 800g (before baking) loaves from a bag of flour costing, ATM, 69p in Lidl or £1.29 in Morrison's or Sainsbury's.
Even if you use Dove's organic wholemeal bread flour at £1.39, each loaf will still cost less than 50p.
But the savings on other types of bread are even greater:
Make a 30cm cheese and tomato pizza using 200g of flour and 100g of cheese and it will cost you around 70p - and taste much better than any you can buy.
Ring the changes with pizzas using slices of cooked potatoes instead of tomatoes - or spread the base with a cream cheese and cover with sliced onions and tomatoes/mushrooms, etc.
Sizzlers (simple bread wraps with a filling of cheese and something like tomato or mushrooms) are brilliant in lunch boxes and cost around 50-60p for four.
Bread pasties - make four with 200g of flour and fill them with potato, onion (or broccoli) and cheese. Or instead of bubble and squeak, add a little grated cheese to your leftover veg and put them in pasties. Another good, cheap filling is lentil and potato.
Sweet breads: A batch of hot cross buns or Chelsea buns (using 200g of flour) will cost you *less* than one of these from a baker's shop.
Pain au chocolat - make ten of these for around 40p using cheap and cheerful chocolate.
Chocolate and banana loaf - a banana and some chocolate spread makes a wonderful treat if you enclose it in a calzone. Again, less than 50p.
And if you've got 2 kids and all you've got is a Mars bar and a banana, you can still give a family of four a real treat: dough made with 200g of flour again - roll out two circles of dough, cover the base with slices of banana and place slices of Mars bar over the top. Cover with the other circle, leave to rise, then bake. Top with a sugar glaze and enjoy. Tastes just like banoffee pie!
(The figures given above I worked out using the more expensive flour - if you get the cheaper, Lidl, flour, you can take 10p off each one.)
I could go on, but I hope there's enough there to inspire you.
(Someone, on the earlier thread, asked if I posted on the BBC Food Message board - indeed I do, and over there I'm known as Paulthebread. But I'm Breadandwine on several other forums.)
Cheers, Paul
Can i ask how do you make sizzlers and do you have a recipe and one also for flatbreads PLEASE PLEASE:j im back making bread by hand and at the moo just took 2 loaves out of the oven, when ds comes home he'll scoff one by himself.
blessings:A
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lapis_lazuli wrote: »The tricky thing is calculating how much it costs for the power or gas to cook your bread, because that can cancel out the savings made by doing it by hand.
I measured the power consumption a while ago with a power meter and it wasn't that much. Can't remember the exact figure though. I guess you can ignore it making three loaves in the oven at a time.
How much is a loaf of good bread in the shop? ~£1.99? So you still save a lot by making your own bread. And I'm not talking about this fluffy sliced bread they sell in the super markets...0 -
lapis_lazuli wrote: »The tricky thing is calculating how much it costs for the power or gas to cook your bread, because that can cancel out the savings made by doing it by hand.
But its not JUST a matter of the economics of this though is it?
I've found I've now got a regular customer for my bread (through the LETS scheme) that gets charged LETS Credits for my labour and the cost of materials and is prepared to spend half an hour walking to and from my house specially when I give them a ring to say that I'm making some for myself and would they like some too at the same time:D
Homemade bread is just in a category of its own compared to shopbought bread. Personally - its all I can do to "get shopbought bread down my throat" now...0 -
I measured the power consumption a while ago with a power meter and it wasn't that much. Can't remember the exact figure though. I guess you can ignore it making three loaves in the oven at a time.
How much is a loaf of good bread in the shop? ~£1.99? So you still save a lot by making your own bread. And I'm not talking about this fluffy sliced bread they sell in the super markets...
£1.99?:eek: I'm moving to your area of the country....try for more like £4 a loaf in my area (and I still prefer my own bread)...0 -
Bubblyblonde wrote: »HiI have not made bread since school.I would like to get back into making it. With two children we make lots of cakes and biscuits but not bread.Is it wise to invest in a bread maker?thanks so much
I use a BM for making the dough but I prefer the loaf baked in the oven. I don't get that annoying hole in the middle due to the paddle being removed and I seem to get a better consistency. I don't knead the bread by hand as I don't have anywhere warm enough to leave it to rise, kitchen is too cold. Plus with an adventerous cat I can't be sure she wouldn't go sticking her nose in it :eek:
Lidl is too far from me, does Aldi sell bread flour and if so what price is it anyone know?I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it'll be with a knifeLouise Brooks
All will be well in the end. If it's not well, it's not the end.Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars0 -
I started making bread in my BM as I became intolerant to so much of the shop bought bread. But also found it was so much cheaper, tasted scrummy and we wasted less.
I am unable to make bread by hand as I have weak wrists and cannot knead. How far do you go with the breadmaker process before baking the bread, surely it needs to rise.
My local Aldi does not sell bread flour, although some branches sell Wrights bread and cake mixes. I go to Lidl every 4 to 6 weeks and stock up, the cheap price justifies the petrol.MSE Addiction, should come with a health warning:money:0 -
Turkishdreamer wrote: »I started making bread in my BM as I became intolerant to so much of the shop bought bread. But also found it was so much cheaper, tasted scrummy and we wasted less.
I am unable to make bread by hand as I have weak wrists and cannot knead. How far do you go with the breadmaker process before baking the bread, surely it needs to rise.
My local Aldi does not sell bread flour, although some branches sell Wrights bread and cake mixes. I go to Lidl every 4 to 6 weeks and stock up, the cheap price justifies the petrol.
My BM (Morphy Richards Fastbake) has a dough setting so it will mix it and then leave it to prove.
I do knock it back when I end up putting it in the tin but putting the oven on low for a few mins is enough to get it warm enough to leave it to rise again for 15 mins.I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it'll be with a knifeLouise Brooks
All will be well in the end. If it's not well, it's not the end.Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars0
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