handmade bread

northwest1965

How does this recipe differ from what you normally do bebee?

Have a couple of questions-
1. What do you do with your bread, if its not successful enough for sandwiches. My white that I made Sunday night (I left too long in the fridge I think) is great for toast. Apart from breadcrumbs what else could I do?

2. Has anyone got a foolproof, tried and tested recipe for bread thats proved once?

MrsCook_2

northwest1965 wrote: »

How does this recipe differ from what you normally do bebee?

Have a couple of questions-
1. What do you do with your bread, if its not successful enough for sandwiches. My white that I made Sunday night (I left too long in the fridge I think) is great for toast. Apart from breadcrumbs what else could I do?

2. Has anyone got a foolproof, tried and tested recipe for bread thats proved once?

how about bread and butter pudding or summmers pudding, both have liquids that will soften it up plus you need dry bread for it anyway.

bread sauce (i love it!!)

northwest1965

Bread & Butter pudding would be good, dont think Summer Pudding would, this last lot is really, really crusty on the outside

bebee_2

Hi Northwest.
The recipe i use doesn't have any Butter or oil in it. and i use dried yeast the portion packets from Mr S or Mr T.
This time i'm using Fresh Yeast as bought a Huge block from a Deli and fridged some and frozen the rest. found it to be a lot cheaper and up to know a lot better as well.
I use left over bread for breadcrumbs ( have you seen the price of them in the shops) My family don't lioke bread pudding unfortunately. just a thought why not freeze it to make toasties with.

northwest1965

Just had another thought, I could just spread garlic butter on and grill them, serve with spag bol.:j

yummyhoney

so,,here i am watching my first ever handmade bread dough,,and it htere 2 hrs and rising lovely,,when panic sets in,,i forgot to add the egg,,so quick look at receipe and it only used to glaze so relief,,then i realised i added no salt,,so took dough out added salt kneeded it and put it back in to rise,,hav i made a mess:(

mouseymousey99

No I shouldn't think so Yummyhoney. Worst one I ever did - forgot the yeast - drrrr (you only do it once)...: )

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yummyhoney wrote: »

so,,here i am watching my first ever handmade bread dough,,and it htere 2 hrs and rising lovely,,when panic sets in,,i forgot to add the egg,,so quick look at receipe and it only used to glaze so relief,,then i realised i added no salt,,so took dough out added salt kneeded it and put it back in to rise,,hav i made a mess:(

no, not at all. If you ever need to re-knead then add a bit of water and a bit more flour just to keep the yeast fed and it will rise again

radiohelen

1. What do you do with your bread, if its not successful enough for sandwiches. My white that I made Sunday night (I left too long in the fridge I think) is great for toast. Apart from breadcrumbs what else could I do?

Bread pudding - OMG I love this. Soak your stale/manky bread in water until it's soft. Squeeze it out into a bowl, add 1 egg for every 8oz or so and enough milk to make it sticky but not sopping wet, it should drop off your spoon - mix in dried fruit to taste, a teaspoon or two of mixed spice depending on the amount you are making and stir in a couple of ozs of sugar for every 8 oz of bread.....Pour into a greased baking dish and sprinkle the top with demerara sugar packets pinched from cafes for precisely this reason.... bake in a medium oven 170ish for an hour or so - a knife should come out clean. Leave it to cool and feast!!!!

yummyhoney

so after all my disasters,,my bread has all been eaten,,crust was yummy and soft,,just needs an extra bit of sugar i think,,made little rolls also but forgot to take them out of the oven and i could bounce them off the walls now:)i think im going to make more later:)thanks guys for all yer help:T