free fresh yeast (merged)

blondie_58

AA2MOM wrote: »

Hi there,

I love to make my own bread! I do have one problem when making my own bread and that is I do not have anywhere warm enough to let the dough rise. My home town is so hot we can let the dough rise anywhere. I do not have a bread maker and do not intend to get one. Can anybody tell me how I could solve this problem? Thanks...:rolleyes:

I've found that putting the dough in a bowl over a pan of warm water does the trick.

Wildside

Yes really helpful, thanks MrGumby:A

greenie23468

Thanks to OP :beer: ...I am another bread making convert.

Will not be buying BM though...like the work out I get from the needing...alos I only make bread if oven is on for other things...so Sunday Roast is always accompanied with a couple of loafs...great for roast beef/lamb/chicken sandwich for supper

MrGumby

greenie23468 wrote: »

Thanks to OP :beer: ...I am another bread making convert.

Will not be buying BM though...like the work out I get from the needing...alos I only make bread if oven is on for other things...so Sunday Roast is always accompanied with a couple of loafs...great for roast beef/lamb/chicken sandwich for supper

You're right. No need for a breadmaker...if you have time to prepare by hand (elapsed time, not just kneading time). And making bread entirely by hand is fun. But, if you want fresh bread for breakfast, a BM makes life so much easier.

Pantha_2

Ive recently been making my own bread using dried yeast, but i tried to get some Free yeast from Asda and i was told that they cant give any to customers any more, also there are no Tesco's by me with an actual bakery any more and the Sainsburys is only a small one that doesnt have a bakery either, no Morrisons or Somerfield, is there any where else you can pick free yeast up from as i really would like to try using live reather than dried.

pompompo

Hi,

Just a couple of things to share:

If you use fresh or dried or whatever sort of yeast, just be sure to wash your hands thoroughly before, after, during handling it or dough made using it as it is a 'live organism' with the potential to cause infections if your hygiene is not too careful. Don't eat raw dough obviously. Of course once baked it is inactive in this regard.

Fresh yeast usually only has a fridge life of about a week or two at the most.

You can make a bread dough and leave it in the fridge to rise overnight and bake it from cold. Many bakers consider longer fermentation time of the dough adds flavour. I sometimes use a half sponge method, where you put all the liquid from the recipe plus half the flour and about half the yeast together. Then leave for 2 - 4 hours or overnight and then add the rest of the ingredients and continue as you would normally. Makes a tastier bread I think.

If you are using milk as the liquid in your dough, try bringing it almost to the boil and leaving it to cool before making your dough with it, this should give you a softer middle to the bread.

hope this is of some use!

pompompo

PS. You can always try making your own sourdough leaven. I make 90 per cent of my bread using this method. Then you don't have to worry about finding fresh yeast, free or otherwise. I don't think it is very good with a bread machine though, but as I don't have one I am not 100 per cent sure on that. If you search on sourdough leaven on the internet you can find a wealth of information about it. It is worth a try and if it doesn't work you have only lost a few pence worth of flour. I have one I made last March that is still going strong....

looby-loo_2

Looks like no more free yeast for me then

JoJo24_3

Re the above post, I imagine the supermarkets have stopped giving out free yeast because thousands of money saving expert users have descended on their stores to request something for free that they don't really need. As I read down the posts I was just waiting for something like this.

It is Writers Share all over again, I still spare a thought for those people who came up with a business model which was completely and utterly overwhelmed by people on here posting comments to make pennies. Before this place got wind of it I was happily doing the odd comment calculating some pocket money before it all went up the creek.

I love this website and think it is really useful for helping you SAVE when SPENDING but all these free things are a bit out of hand. Don't get me wrong, it is a great service to alert people to something that might be useful to them that they otherwise wouldn't know about but everyone demanding stuff just because it is free is just stupid and it messes with the supply and demand within the economy. It is why Writers Share failed and why the big supermarkets will stop doing the one tiny nice good deed that they did do. It is not as if people who genuinely used yeast already are using this good will service, everyone seems to be going down to get it.

Only today in Boots I was in the queue and for some reason (don't ask me why) I thought the till lady was giving the woman in front of me free chocolate coins (She wasn't.) But when I thought she was, my first thought after aww what a nice festive thing to do was "Oh no, if someone posts this on money saver Boots will soon have swarms of people demanding them."

Like someone quite rightly said in the Nivea post, there is not much sense for our carbon foot print in us all requesting stuff we wouldn't normally need!

looby-loo_2

Yes, I suspect this is the case too. I've often seen posts boasting 'just ordered 3 or 6 or 10' of something which is a great offer or a mistake on a website. Pure greed!