handmade bread

hotcookie101

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Was that a recipe intended for a bread machine? BM recipes tend to be wetter, so I always reduce the water for a handmade bread

Thanks, but it was def recipe for handmade, they had seperate one for BM. It looks like its working though, just proving in tin now, next time will start at 250 and just add a little at a time.

OK may have slightly exaggerated the soup like consistency, but was more like cake batter (a wet one, like a sponge cake) than dough

PennyGSD

I'm sure I read somewhere that the wetter the dough, the lighter the bread? I therefore always try and keep my dough as sticky as possible, although dry enough to work, but I do still start with 60% liquid to solids, and also always add a splop of margarine to keep it light.

JulieGeorgiana

You say this, I had a no knead recipe for bread, and it was 1.5kg Flour and 2.25ltrs of water... was very runny, but it made wonderful bread.... you couldn't have kneaded it if you tried though

zippychick

I've merged this with the handmade bread thread so you can see how others do i

may i also recommend adventures with bread dough

Neither of which answer your question, but they're both great threads

Oh - and sticky dough

arkonite_babe

I have started making bread by hand. Currently the loaf recipe I use Is a mix of the river cottage basic white and a recipe from Dough by Richard Bertinet. I have mixed results with these though. Whats the best recipe for home made bread that makes nice soft fluffy bread and is baked in a tin?? I have access to fresh yeast as well as dried if that makes any difference!!

Thank you for advice in advance :beer:

Pink.

Hi ark,

This thread has lots of recipes that should help:

handmade bread

I'll add your's to that one later to keep the recipes together.

Pink

arkonite_babe

Thanks PInk, search doesn't work for me for some reason at the mo

quintwins

but they were abit bland, i used a very simple recipe of flour, yeast (i used dried) and abit of salt, it looks like bread and tastes like bread just not really nice bread lol, wat can i add next time? thanks

lucylucky

I just made some the other day using wholemeal flour, yeast, salt and water - tasted great.

What flour did you use?

soupdragon10

I use a mixture of half and half white and wholemeal strong flour, as I find 100% wholemeal isn't to my families taste. How much salt did you use, because I find if I don't put enough in the bread can taste a bit bland.