Cooking without scales

Fruball

My scales are not working :mad:

I really wanted to make some bread but don't have a recipe that uses cups etc.

I am usually fairly accurate with heaped dessert spoon measuring but doubt I could be accurate enough for bread.

Does anybody have a recipe I could try please?

oh, and its for the BM

TY

girlybags

White bread:

For a 1.5lb loaf:
Water: 1 cup
Oil: 3 tbsp
Sugar: 2 and a quarter tbsp
Salt: 1 and a half tsp
Bread flour: 3 cups
Yeast: 1 and an eighth tsp

2lb loaf:
Water: 1 and a third cups
Oil: 4 tbsp
Sugar: 3 tbsp
Salt: 2 tsp
Bread flour: 4 cups
Yeast: 1 and a half tsp

That's from my breadmaker book, hope it helps

Turkishdreamer

My BM recipe is almost the same as the one above, but the difference is that I use, 1 1/8 cups of water and 2 1/2 tblspns of skimmed milk powder.

Fruball

Thank you both

Fruball

That recipe was much much nicer than my usual one!

The dough was much stickier so I worried a bit but needn't have.

Its really soft and open textured. Love it. Will stick with that one rather than my old one so thanks again

Turkishdreamer

I made Soft Grain Bread last night, but used 3 cups of Allinsons Soft Grain flour instead of White flour, cooked on the white bread setting. Delicious, great texture and slightly softer crust. Usually do a half and half on the soft grain and white, as the soft grain flour is expensive, but a bit of a treat.

stylus360

Whats the procedure to make your own bread ? Where can i get a cheap bread tin ??

Cheers

Pink.

Hi Frugal,

Now that you've found a recipe that suits and your thread has dropped down the Old Style board, I've added it to the existing one on cooking without scales as your question may help others.

Pink

Cullumpster

okay so I have got into baking and also have the take away secret, yummy, however, I have no weighing scales etc so most of the time I just make it up. :eek:.

so my question is this, how can I measure for example 4oz of flour without actually measuring, say for example 1oz is 1 table spoon or something, it is something I keep meaning to get and always forget grrr

thanks

tanith

My Mum always measured by tablespoon using your example one heaped table spoon= 1oz.. if you use that measure for all the ingredients at least they will all be in proportion to one another.. but it won't always work..