Bread Making

alm721

Hi all just a quickie, can you make bread without using dried milk? The reason I ask is that my baby has a severe milk allergy and as a lot of bread has milk in it I thought I'd try making my own. I've borrowed my mums breadmaker to have a try but she lost the recipe book but did say I needed milk yeast and strong bread flour etc. Can any one tell me what will happen if I just leave the milk out? I do have some hydrolysed formula milk for him but it smells and tastes vile. I did think I could probably use that if I really had to but would rather not as I was hoping that the rest of the family could eat it as well.
Any help would be great
Thanks

rhonda_jean

you certainly can make good bread without milk powder. Just use water.

Swan_2

the milk or dried milk powder isn't essential

I've been making bread for decades ... longer than I care to mention, & as far as I can make out, all it does is either give a softer result, as in baps, or gives better results when toasting

personally I like it in some recipes, but your bread will turn out fine without it

happy baking

Ishtar

I've had a bread machine for 7 years and in that time I have only made one loaf with dried milk. In my opinion, the bread is much better without it...

thriftlady_2

I bake bread by hand and only use; flour, water, sugar, salt and yeast No milk and no fat and the sugar isn't strictly necessary.

I sometimes make rolls with milk and butter in. They are simply enriching ingredients as is egg. I think the milk makes for a softer crumb.

The recipes in breadmaker instruction books are designed to produce a loaf as much like a supermarket white loaf as possible -soft and pretty tasteless.

kethry

I'm another one that doesn't do the milk in the bread thing. this is the recipe i use (handmaking bread, not a breadmaker) - I do add fat, unlike Thriftlady, but then there are only 2 of us and bread has to last a while, i find that adding that little bit of fat helps the bread to keep that little bit longer. its a personal taste!

keth
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alm721

Thanks very much for that. Cant wait to have a go tomorrow. Fingers crossed

alm721

Just to say thanks for that. Just made my 1st loaf and its brill. :jOnly problem now will be stopping other half from eating it all before I get chance to try my son with it tomorrow.:rolleyes:
Thanks again