Adventures with bread dough

Darren_G

Add some soured cream (on 2 for £1.50 at my local Tesco atm..) in place of the fat/some of the water.

It makes a delicious loaf for sandwiches and is even better toasted.

For every 550g flour/dry mix, use 125g soured cream and 250g water (yes, I weigh the water rather than use a jug - it makes the proportions a lot more consistent). Do not add any more fat/oil butter to the mix. If it comes out too rich first time due to any fat in the pre-mix, reduce the soured cream and up the water by the same amount.

I bake this recipe by hand, but it also works in my Panny breadmaker and an old Breville machine too

zedeb

Hi i have been trying to find the recipe for the apple braid,I made it before and just cannot find it on this site anymore in fact cant seem to get to recipes at all.If anyone can help i would be grateful,Thanks:beer::kisses3:

zippychick

Here you go

Magpie27

As with lots of people money is very tight at the mo and we only £20 left until the end of the month for food :eek: Most of this I will need use for milk, fruit, veg & yoghurts esp for DD. Now I'm not too worried about it as I know there should be enough in my freezer & cupboards to see us through but I thought it might be nice to make some flavoured bread to make some of the dinners more interesting & stretch further :j.

Now I've only ever made plain bread so I was hoping someone could give me some inspiration. Obviously I cant afford to buy much but I do have a big bag of bread flour, plenty of yeast and lots different things in my store cupboard.

BTW I don't have a bread make I mix the dough in my very old Kenwood Chef

Pink.

Hi Magpie,

The tastiest bread that I make is one with caramelised onions. You'll need about three decent sized onions for a 2lb loaf. I make mine by hand but you could adapt it to a breadmaker.

Use your basic recipe in the bread machine but set to making dough rather than cooking it in the machine. I've tried baking it in the machine and although it still works the onions get chopped to bits and the flavour isn't the same.

Slice the onions very finely and cook very slowly on a low heat with a good glug of worcester sauce until you have a brown gooey mix.

After the first rise removed the dough from the machine, knock back the dough and mix in the onions.

Let it rise again and then top with cheese and pop into the oven for about 20 minutes or until the bread looks cooked and sounds hollow when tapped.

Another delicious one is cheese bread, when adding cheese to your bread mix also add a little mustard powder (about half a teaspoon) as it brings out the flavour of the cheese. Also, as cheese contains fat you may not need so much oil or butter.

Tomato bread is good too...chop sundried tomatoes into tiny pieces and a add a good dolop of tomato puree, it produces a bread with a pinky tinge but it's gorgeous.

Seeds make bread interesting too. I add sunflower, poppy , sesame pumkin and linseeds. I have to grind them because my youngest doesn't like seeded bread but they are better left whole.

This thread has lots more ideas that may help:

Adventures with bread dough

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

babyshoes

I have previously made sweet bread loaves in the BM (though it should work by hand), with raisins / mixed dried fruit, spices like cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg etc and some sugar. Don't remember the quantities, I think I just put some in! It is also quite nice if you DONT mix it too thoroughly, as you then get swirls of flavour.

Nice when eaten warm with butter instead of a pudding, or cold buttered in a lunchbox. Mostly used for snacking here.

lizzyb1812

Add 80g mixed dried fruit or raisins/sultanas plus 2 level tsp cinnamon to your standard loaf recipe - lovely toasted and makes a super bread and butter pudding.

Look 2/3 down the page in this link - there is the panasonic manual which has lots of flavoured recipes - you could adapt them to hand baking by just adding the flavouring bits to your loaves.

http://www.mrbreadmaker.co.uk/Panasonic/SD255.html

Magpie27

Thank you everyone for the ideas, I've got everything for all of those apart from theseeds Thank you Pink I can't wait to make the onion bread I was drooling just reading it:j

alex21

What about some finely chopped olives added to the mix?:)

dannie

Garlic bread.