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rosie383

msb5262 wrote: »

Did you do it Rosie? Any update?

Sorry1 Was too busy eating the bread to update!!
I did make it. Easy peasy and probably the most delicious bread I have ever made!
All the family loved it and just kept coming back to the kitchen looking for another slice.
I made it with half wholemeal, half plain bread flour, because that's all I had. I can confirm that it was literally no-knead too.

I'm going to make it again this evening, to bake tomorrow. The only problem is the waiting time....... I wasn't too bothered the first time, but now that I know how delicious it is, I don't want to wait! Oh, and I only proved it for about 12 hours, not the recommended 24.

Justamum

I've costed out my bread and it works out at approximately 40p a loaf.

hoo

sorry did not mean to post and run but oh granny has ended up in hospital again and I havent had a chance to get back on. Re the bread thing we have cut down to one small loaf a week as trying to lose weight so that is helping the pocket. We did try making bread in the past and it was edible but the smell of bread baking makes me gag!! I cant even go near the bakery section in a supermarket so we gave up on that one

We regularly bulk out meals with veg, beans etc - havent tried the oats one though -does it not go gloopy or lumpy?

lizalloareds

rosie383 wrote: »

Sorry1 Was too busy eating the bread to update!!
I did make it. Easy peasy and probably the most delicious bread I have ever made!
All the family loved it and just kept coming back to the kitchen looking for another slice.
I made it with half wholemeal, half plain bread flour, because that's all I had. I can confirm that it was literally no-knead too.

I'm going to make it again this evening, to bake tomorrow. The only problem is the waiting time....... I wasn't too bothered the first time, but now that I know how delicious it is, I don't want to wait! Oh, and I only proved it for about 12 hours, not the recommended 24.

Which recipe did you use.
I have made bread before but never totally happy with it.

Butterfly_Brain

Nargleblast wrote: »

Re softer, lighter home-made bread.
I have a Panasonic breadmaker, and I have found two ways of getting a lighter loaf. First of all, using the standard white loaf setting, replace about 4 ounces of the strong flour (approx 100 grams) with ordinary plain flour, then proceed as normal. A second idea is to use the sandwich loaf setting which takes an hour longer - this bread turns out softer than the ordinary 4-hour loaf.

I too use 100g of plain flour to make my bread lighter and I also warm the flour before baking. And I get great loaves of bread.

joedenise

hoo wrote: »

We regularly bulk out meals with veg, beans etc - havent tried the oats one though -does it not go gloopy or lumpy?

I've only done the oats once but I thought it was a bit gloopy so haven't done it again. Like you I use veg, beans etc.

Denise

rosie383

lizalloareds wrote: »

Which recipe did you use.
I have made bread before but never totally happy with it.

3 cups bread flour (or 2.5 cups bread flour and 1/2 cup wholemeal)
1/4 tsp yeast (I used 1 tsp)
1 tsp salt
1.5 cups warm water.

Look at the link on the first page of the thread and look at the Steamykitchen one. Easy if you follow the steps in it.

rosie383

Here's the recipe link:

http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knea...revisited.html

lizalloareds

Thanks Rosie

lizalloareds

Just checked out the link for the bread, it looks lovely I will need to see what dishes I have to bake one in