Homemade Bread - Can it ever taste nice?

lil_me

I use plain flour usually when making a white loaf because I am too tight to buy bread flour, don't find much of a difference myself.

Tight as a kippers **** that's me

My partner will eat the homemade stuff but is so used to mass produced food he likes the shop bought stuff aswell, I think shop bought food has effected his ability to chew things because he's always moaning that things are not soft enough...

Tashja

My DH got me a BM for Christmas and now the family refuses to eat the shop bought stuff !!!

I also got a book for Christmas which is "100 bread machine recipes" and that is excellent. Yummy, yummy spiced tea loaf !!!

One question I do have is can I freeze batches of rolls and pitta breads ?? Would make life easire if I knew I could freeze these things !!

T xx

belfastgirl23

Tashja wrote: »

My DH got me a BM for Christmas and now the family refuses to eat the shop bought stuff !!!

I also got a book for Christmas which is "100 bread machine recipes" and that is excellent. Yummy, yummy spiced tea loaf !!!

One question I do have is can I freeze batches of rolls and pitta breads ?? Would make life easire if I knew I could freeze these things !!

T xx

I'd just stick a couple in next time you're baking and see I don't mind defrosted bread as long as it's been covered properly in the freezer although I do tend to use it for toast rather than straight 'eating'.

apple_mint

Tashja wrote: »

My DH got me a BM for Christmas and now the family refuses to eat the shop bought stuff !!!

I also got a book for Christmas which is "100 bread machine recipes" and that is excellent. Yummy, yummy spiced tea loaf !!!

One question I do have is can I freeze batches of rolls and pitta breads ?? Would make life easire if I knew I could freeze these things !!

T xx

We batch freeze HM bread rolls all the time. OH makes the dough in the Panasonic and makes up a dozen poppy seed rolls at a time (baked in the oven). Sometimes we split them between two bags but often we bag them individually. We take out portion of soup and one roll each, each morning and that is lunch sorted (we both have access to microwaves at work).

OH also makes pizza dough in the panasonic to freeze. One batch is cut in two. Popped into the freezer and on days when we want to make a quick pizza when we get home from work we take one bag out of the freezer that morning. When we get home - we just roll it out, pop on some topping and straight in the oven.

I've not tried pitta bread but I would suppose that this will freeze too. When I used to buy it (before BM) I used to freeze the shop bought.

Farway

StressedSteph wrote: »

I read on one of the threads that some people use Tesco Value Plain flour at about .25p per packet and the bread turns out just as nice. IS this REALLY true, you many of you use any old flour??
If this is true then bread making will save me ALOT of money .

xxx

It will work, but will quickly go stale. Which is why French housewives need to buy bread twice a day

If you make & eat quite quickly it will be OK, but as others pointed out the gluten content is much lower and rise is less

Why not experiment, say 75/25 bread flour to bog standard, and if OK try changing ratio to say 50/50 until you get to stage where even the birds choke on it :rotfl:

Tashja

Thank you all

Going to batch make some rolls today as DH has a start date fir returning to work !!!

T xx

pigpen

I make 20+ rolls at the weekend.. slice & bag them up in 4's for the childrens packed lunches through the week. I get them out the night before as I am making the next days lunches so they are defrosted by the net evening when I am making the next lot of lunches.. My aunt makes the sandwiches up and freezes those.. puts them in a lunch boxes frozen and they defrost by noon..

I am doubling up quantities of everything and just keeping an eye it doens't rise too wildly.

I do find I have to add more flour to the mix though as it is stringy rather than doughy otherwise.

StressedSteph

Sorry to be a pest, but can you guys post you favourite basic bread receipe, If thats possible and not too much trouble :-)

Tashja

The basic loaf Ihave in at the moment is a 750g one.

290ml Water
1.5 tbsp Veg Oil
450g White Bread Flour
4tsp Milk
1.5 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
1.5 tsp yeast

This recipe came with the bread maker and makes a really nice loaf

T xx

Tashja

I also have the recipe here for Spiced Tea Loaf if anyone wants it !!

Neighbour just knocked on to ask if I can do them another loaf of the spiced tea bread !!!

T xx