Anyone got a Tesco Bread Maker?

Claire70_2

Help again please....


I have just come back from Tescos and I have my FREE fresh yeast ... how do I convert the dried yeast recipes I have to use fresh yeast please


thanks in advance


Claire


oh and my Tescos has a stack of breadmakers ... at £25-00 :embarasse

sb44

Claire70 wrote: »

Its nearly all gone Sharon ... lol...


I could do with a sweet one please... like a light fruit bread... just with some sultanas or currants in please.. no nuts or anything... bit like a big hot cross bun

I tried pizzas.. but my bases went soggy for some reason ... but they tasted good :beer:

Thanks for all your help


Claire

How about this ' Rum and Raisin Loaf ' you can always just leave out the rum (think I may try this myself).

75g/3oz raisins
1½ tbs dark rum
1 egg
140ml/5fl oz milk
350g/12oz white bread flour
¼ tsp ground ginger
25g/1oz castor sugar
½ tsp salt
40g/1½oz butter
1 tsp easy blend yeast
2 tsp clear honey (warmed)

Place raising and rum in small bowl and let soak for 2 hours or longer if you can.

Add egg and milk to bread machine pan.

Add flour into pan.

Add castor sugar, ground ginger, salt and butter to pan (all in seperate corners).

Add yeast to centre of bread pan.

Set to basic normal setting, medium crust, small loaf.

Add rasins when machine beeps or after first kneading.

Put on wire rack, brush top with the warmed honey and leave to cool.

GlasweJen

I'm thinking of getting the £25 one from argos, does anyone else have it?

here's a pic with the model number and stuff
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/catalogId/1500001001/partNumber/4229382.htm

There's one at £30 that's the same brand but it doesn't seem to do anything that the cheaper one doesn't do?

Claire70_2

sb44 wrote: »

How about this ' Rum and Raisin Loaf ' you can always just leave out the rum (think I may try this myself).

75g/3oz raisins
1½ tbs dark rum
1 egg
140ml/5fl oz milk
350g/12oz white bread flour
¼ tsp ground ginger
25g/1oz castor sugar
½ tsp salt
40g/1½oz butter
1 tsp easy blend yeast
2 tsp clear honey (warmed)

Place raising and rum in small bowl and let soak for 2 hours or longer if you can.

Add egg and milk to bread machine pan.

Add flour into pan.

Add castor sugar, ground ginger, salt and butter to pan (all in seperate corners).

Add yeast to centre of bread pan.

Set to basic normal setting, medium crust, small loaf.

Add rasins when machine beeps or after first kneading.

Put on wire rack, brush top with the warmed honey and leave to cool.

Im going to try this one tomorrow..... just made pizzas for lunch... Is it okay to keep leftover dough in the fridge until tomorrow or is it better to cook pizza bases and add toppings tomorrow?

I will leave out the rum and use orange juice me thinks... I dont drink... lol ...

Do you know about the yeast sharon? How much fresh for dry?


Thanks

Claire

Claire70_2

GlasweJen wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting the £25 one from argos, does anyone else have it?

here's a pic with the model number and stuff
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/catalogId/1500001001/partNumber/4229382.htm

There's one at £30 that's the same brand but it doesn't seem to do anything that the cheaper one doesn't do?

Looks okay to me... the way I looked at it when I bought the Tesco one is that I would get a years guarranttee anyway if anything went wrong with it....

Can you not get the Tesco one? Its so easy to use I have found

CLaire

GlasweJen

The online price has shot up and I don't live near a real tesco, just a metro that doesn't do electronics.

generationgav

What yeast is it people are using? I tried some fast yeast which comes in sachets, so like it said I added 2 sachets but it just didn't work!
My 1st loaf was good but a bit heavy, had it on French mode though and used a "pre-mixed" packet.
2nd loaf looked amazing (but a bit small) but you could rub the bread back in to dough!
Also struggling on recipes for 900g loaves, as I'd def prefer bigger ones.

Grebe

Hi generationgav, I find the best way to convert the recipes is to measure the yeast with a teaspoon rather than by sachet. If you are using say 500g of flour you will need 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of yeast. If you want to make a bigger loaf make sure your machine can cope with not only the weight of flour when mixing but the height of the loaf when it rises. :eek: I have made this mistake myself, so if I want to make a nice big daddy of a loaf i do all the mixing and kneading in the machine, let it prove out of the machine a and stick it back in for knocking back. Finally I take it out put it into a big enough tin to cope with the size and leave it for the final rise before sticking it in the oven. When I first started making my own bread the loaves were inedible:rotfl::rotfl:I went on to an American bread making forum and they gave me this advice. Never expect your first attempts to work perfectly, keep practising, and suddenly you will make a perfect loaf. From then on you will have become a breadmaker..... They were right, I now struggle to eat shop bought bread because I now know what real bread tastes like:j

sb44

Claire70 wrote: »

Im going to try this one tomorrow..... just made pizzas for lunch... Is it okay to keep leftover dough in the fridge until tomorrow or is it better to cook pizza bases and add toppings tomorrow?

I will leave out the rum and use orange juice me thinks... I dont drink... lol ...

Do you know about the yeast sharon? How much fresh for dry?


Thanks

Claire

Sorry Claire, haven't got a clue about using 'real' yeast, I've only ever used the dry stuff.

There are so many threads regarding making bread it may be easier for you too make a new thread asking the question.

Looking forward to hearing how your bread turns out tomorrow.



Sharon

generationgav

Grebe wrote: »

If you want to make a bigger loaf make sure your machine can cope with not only the weight of flour when mixing but the height of the loaf when it rises.

Do you use the sachet packs and then measure them out of the sachet then? It says you should use less on the back of the box. Want to find some real fast yeast I think!
The machine says it makes 700g or 900g loaves. But it gives recipes for 700g and says "increase for 900g loaf)
Guess I could calculate it but not sure if everything wants to go up 28%?!?