Cook works bread maker

sparklygirl1

No put the ingredients in and it does all mixing.......... I could do with some help with the amount of yeast you use, got tesco sachets should I use a teaspoon..... So confusing.

lumpy_bum

my goodhouse keeping bible as i call it says you halve the amount of dried yeast if using fresh but thats about it lol
how much flour do you use?

dubgirl

Hi I have a cookworks breadmaker and I found that all the pre-packaged mixes did not work well, once I started putting the ingredients in individually and making the bread from scratch, the loaves have been much better, it is a bit of trial and error though.

sparklygirl1

dubgirl, I have just done a loaf with my own ingredients and still over an hour to go but already the loaf os touching the lid, which it never did before. Heres hoping it works.

sparklygirl1

LB 260grams of strong white and 260grams of brown flour, added a teaspoon and a quater, 310 water and half teaspoon salt and 2 table spoons of sugar.... oh and two table spoons of butter. We will see what happens with this.

anguk

I've got the cookworks one from Argos. I'm very happy with the white loaves I get following the instructions but every wholemeal one I've made has sunk in the middle. I've been having a look at past posts and it seems like this can happen if you use too much water so I'm going to reduce the amount of water for my next wholemeal loaf and see what happens.

sparklygirl1

My 50/50 bread came out good, a tin bit sunken at the top, butthis was only slight. I wonder if a tiny bit too much yeast as it did touch the lid and if it opened then maaybe that caused it to sink.......... Hmmmmmmm, trial and error me thinks. I need more seeds in it, put some sulower seeds in but they went no where.

dubgirl

Hi, I have not had a problem with either white or brown, however for the wholewheat loaves, I have mixed in some regular bread flour as well. The only thing I have found is that the recipes in the manual recommend too much sugar in my experience.