Making bread without a bread maker?

immoral_angeluk

How do I go about this? It's got to be cheaper making your own than paying 96p a time surely? Any tips/advice/good recipies?

Penelope_Penguin

Try Delia Online. The first one is a straightforward loaf. You could alos try soda bread - easy, no proving, and no yeast.

Penny. x

moor426

The river Cottage Family Cookbook has a bread/pizza base recipe, and lots of other nice things for children/families as well

belfastgirl23

I do this all the time.

Irish soda bread is very forgiving and fat free - here's one recipe for it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/sodabread_82421.shtml
But if you search the web there are hundreds

BTW my top tip especially first few times is to wrap the soda in a damp clean tea towel when you take it out of hte oven to stop the crust going too chewy.

Foccacia is also a pretty easy bread to make without a bread maker.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1132110
TBH I normally just make it with strong white bread flour, olive oil, salt and yeast in warm water and don't bother with all the frills.

I have a food processer now for kneading but did this by hand for a long time too.

Jamie Oliver's pizza recipe is also easy and can help you build confidence
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_17300,00.htmlhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_17300,00.html
Dough can be frozen too if you make to much.

Have a go! You'll love it!

kethry

I hand make all my own bread (except if i'm ill.. OH grudgingly allows me to buy the stuff pretending to be bread, as he calls it).. i wrote out a weblog with photos and instructions, it's my granddad's recipe for a loaf that is made with part white part brown flour, but you can easily adapt it to be all white if you prefer. the part white part brown makes lovely toast though.

As for economics: the loaf i make (which is 1 1/4 pounds white to 3/4 pound stoneground, seeded) costs around 30p a loaf i think, its hard to tell exactly, certainly less than 50p, and probably the nearest commercial loaf to compare to are the very good seeded loaves you can buy that cost £1.30 upwards. It really does depend on what you want to compare it to. If you're used to buying cheap 20p plastic white, then making your own would be more expensive, however, given what you've said about 96p, i think you can probably make a saving.

Be warned though: home made bread is addictive!

HTH

keth
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linzibean

I don't have a breadmaker but make my own bread every week Once you have a preferred recipe down to pat it's like kethry said, addictive!! I make poppy seed baps and a loaf generally, though I can't wait for when we move to a house with a gas oven as I have my electric one, it's terrible for having temperature changes!

Pink.

Hi immoral_angel,

There are some good recipes on these older threads:

The recipes that made me pack away my breadmaker

Bread without a breadmaker


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zfrl

Be warned though - making your own bread costs much more in calories! It's so yummy you end up eating so much more.