DFW BREAD Why do children not like it

Snaggles

Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't make it chunky - I wouldn't know where to start! :rotfl: I just love it when other people make it....or when I buy it from Morrisons....

Seaxwyn

Hello everyone

This is the recipe that turns out perfect Mother's Pride style bread in my breadmaker:

1 tsp yeast
500 g strong white flour
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt (I put less though)
3 tbsp olive oil
350 ml water

Select Italian Bake programme of 4 hours 30 minutes.

Hope that works for you!

My son who turns six this month is very picky too. If he could he'd live on honey sandwiches and yoghurt.

chevalier

chunky79 wrote: »

:hello:
I am actually waiting for my aunt to send me some recipes for banana bread, rice bread and potatoe bread they are apprently very nice. When i get te recipes i will have a bash at making them if they are nice i could pass on the recipes if you like.

I do need to buy a breadmaker as anyone got a good recomendation?

I haven't seen it on my group, but others have mentioned that they sometimes go up for free on freecycle (https://www.freecycle.org - you have to register first), so may be worth a look?
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chevalier

thanks for the recipe Sea, will give it a go. Bread is such a pain to buy as my DS1 is allergic to milk and it is in some shop bought stuff. Hence using my bread maker at home.

Once this loaf is gone I will give your recipe a try
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Miss_Scarlett

I had a breadmaker and the only way I could get my kids to eat it was to slice it thinly with one of those knives with a guide on (for thin slices) then put it in a kingsmill bag. Kids... the things we do.

kippers

I use dough setting on my breadmaker then split the dough in to really small cobs the shape and size of ping pong balls....my two children really love them (but won't eat the full sized cobs).

Its a little bit more work to make and cook in the oven but it tastes good, has no nasty additives and it cheaper than buying 'posh' bread at nearly a pound a loaf!

rayday2

When I had a breadmaker it cost me a fortune making bread as opposed to buying it we seemed to eat more. Then I got preggers and could not bare the smell - when it wasn't raining I used to put it on an extension lead out on the patio.

It may have been because we ate more but we are a family of 5 and the loaves it makes are pretty small - or is my budgetting to pot?

Bunnyinthelights

My DH won't eat brown bread or half and half, lol. The kids don't care...

Men!

Bunny

Seaxwyn

I've got mixed feelings about my breadmaker too.

As others have said, it is impossible to slice the brown loaves thin enough, so you have to make doorstep sandwiches so one loaf only does one round of packed lunches. This means it is no cheaper than shop bread.

The white loaves are easier to slice but I'm not keen on my children living on white bread.

I used to have a Morphy Richardson breadmaker which I think was better in this respect. It broke down and now I have a Panasonic, which I chose based on recommendations on the OS board here, but I don't like it half so much. If you want to use it to make cakes you have to mix the dough by hand then line the breadmaker tin with greaseproof paper, so it's no less faff than baking a cake in the oven. With the Morphy Richardson you just chucked the ingredients in the tin and it did the whole job.

My DD3 has started baking bread in the oven and I think her loaves are actually nicer than the breadmaker ones, though admittedly more trouble.

I definitely wouldnt recommend a breadmaker unreservedly.

rayday2

I sometimes bake in the oven and I prefer it, we never ate the end of the loaf with the hole thing it from the mixing.

I think breadmakers are ideal if you always buy uncut bread at the supermarket because then you definately do save, but if you are happy with sliced bread then maybe it is maybe it isin't. They certainly cost a bit too buy.