Homemade Bread - Can it ever taste nice?

belfastgirl23

ooh that sounds nice - I'm collecting recipes at the minute so I'd love it

mouseymousey99

me too please Tashja
this is my bread recipe its a bit ad hock as I don't weigh anything anymore and I tend to use whatever flour I have - at the mo Lidl are selling strong bread flour for 45p for 1kg, they only have white but the results have been very good.
so
1lb flour
1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon dried yeast (Doves is my favourite)
Tablespoon of butter
wizz all up in magimix to get good mix of dried ingredients
add approx 1/2 pint hand hot water and wizz again - about 3 - 4 mins until the mix feels like velvet....
turn it out and shape - pop into tin or shape - I cut across the top after I read it helps too bake it evenly - dust with flour - adds to artisan bread look!!!
Bake in hot oven for about 25 mins
turn out (tap bottom) of the bread ! to see if it sounds hollow if it has its cooked - if it hasn't turn it upside down and put back in oven for another 5 mins
turn out and bask in warm glow.....
best wishes

JoeyG

This is my recipe... always comes out perfect:-

1 3/4 cups of water
3 tbsp olive oil
1 3/4 tbsp honey
1 tsp salt
2 cups strong wholemeal flour
2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp dried yeast
1 crushed vit C tablet

I always make it in the breadmaker, never in the oven... I find that a 50/50 ratio of strong wholemeal to plain flour gets the best consistency

Angelraesunshine

must say Hm bread is fab though i prefer the taste of mine when i make dough in the BM and the cook in my oven, i also prefer free formed bread though Dh prefer it when i cook it in a bread tin as he likes the sandwich shape he is used to for his sandwiches

macaroni

StressedSteph wrote: »

Affordmylife - I have to admit that I did admit defeat with it pretty quickly - practice makes perfect I guess.

Just looked up the Panasonic Breadmaker and nearly fell off my chair - It's £100.00 :-OOOOOOO
Feels hard to justify buying it, when I am not even trying to waste money sending a txt message, let alone shelling out £100.
I guess it would make the money back eventually, but still....Decisons Decisions.........

Try putting a wanted on freecycle, there must be plenty of people with breadmakers gathering dust out there.

I used my religiously for about a year when I first bought it, but ,got fed up of having to slice the damn stuff, I didnt enjoy the taste ( too sweet for my liking and the instructions stating saying 'you must follow the recipes EXACTLY !!'), I also found it blocked my system up

I did love the smell of it cooking though

FZwanab

pigpen wrote: »

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.

Thats a great tip, I was going to make a loaf every night for lunches. How many rolls can you make from the dough each time you use the bread maker?. Do you double ingredients for this?

mumoftwo

JoeyG wrote: »

This is my recipe... always comes out perfect:-

1 3/4 cups of water
3 tbsp olive oil
1 3/4 tbsp honey
1 tsp salt
2 cups strong wholemeal flour
2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp dried yeast
1 crushed vit C tablet

I always make it in the breadmaker, never in the oven... I find that a 50/50 ratio of strong wholemeal to plain flour gets the best consistency

What setting on the bread maker(ie basic, white, fastbake etc, sandwich) and which vit C tablets? Just the cheapest supermarket kind?

rosieben

organic_wanabe wrote: »

I use my breadmaker to make my dough and then cook it in the oven and it tastes like 'real' bread. Not expensive to make - I use one tsp yeast to 600g of flour (usually half white/half wholemeal), 1-2 tsp salt, 2 Tbsp olive oil, 400ml water. I put all the ingredients into the breadmaker and put on 'pizza' setting for 45 mins. I then take it out and divide into two oval loaf shapes, put it onto a baking tray covered with baking parchment, and cover and let it rise. I then bake it for 25 mins in an oven pre-heated to 190C, then turn over for a further 5 minutes. Cool on a baking rack and wrap in cotton dishcloth to store.

I did this recipe yesterday and its the nicest I've ever made! and it slices easily and thinly today! Thank OW :T :T

I dont have a pizza setting on my bm so just did the 'dough' programme

I also made a recipe I found on here for soft white baps and that turned out really well too, put most in the freezer as I'm enjoying my loaf, but both these recipes will be in my regular breadmaking routine from now on.

StressedSteph

Well...... My Panasonic SD254 Breadmaker arrived today. Me & the kids dashed out to get the ingredients as I wasn't expecting it till later in the week (Great service from Amazon).

I have just baked a basic XL loaf and OMG....It taste absolutely gorgeous :T
It is really light and fluffy, loads better than what I made in my mums Morphy Richards Breadmaker, which used to be really heavy thick stuff.

Wow oh wow, it must be this breadmaker that is excellent. I also like how the top of the loaf is the part that is allowed to rise. With my mums, the bit that rises is the side of the loaf, so you have a REALLY UGLY loaf when it comes out.

Thanks for all your help with this, I am sure I am going to be able to convert hubby now, going to experiment with some rolls tomorrow. Would love to bake a weeks worth of rolls and freeze them in daily portions for the other half.

xxxxxx:beer: xxxxxxx

Tashja

Sorry - forgot I posted offering the Spiced Tea Loaf Recipe !!!

It is -
1 cup black tea
1 egg, beaten
half teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter melted and cooled
2 tablespoons black treacle
1 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons ground mixed spice
2 cups strong bread flour
1 cup wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon yeast

When the beeper goes add 3oz sultanas

Put all the ingredients in BM in order of recipe. SetBM to "basic 1kg" programme and off it goes.

Mine makes a noise when you have to add the sultanas.

This is sooooo yummy with a bit of icing on it.

Any questions ask and I will try and answer.

Also just for the record I found that we preffered it if we added more of the mixed spice !!!

T xx