Help with first ever attempt with Breadmaker

LuislovesGuinness

Please be gentle as this is my first post !

I've been viewing the site for weeks and have been inspired by your breadmaking tips etc. I've managed to borrow a friends BM and am about to make my first loaf. Please can someone let me know what exactly a 'cup' of flour is ? The list of ingredients says to add '3 cups' of bread flour - am I just being thick ????

LUCELOO

The cup that came with my breadmaker holds 8 floz/ 240ml
Hope this helps

squeaky

Here you go - how to work out cups:-


As for cups - the americans work by volume rather than weight.

You can usually buy plastic cup sets in pretty much any supermarket - but for recipes that are ALL cups you just need to use any old cup or mug you like, and as long as you use THAT mug for all the ingredients the proportions will work out fine.

In the meantime - an american cup is 240mil and a european one is 250mil

Hardly worth bothering about the difference.

To get quantities right for as recipe that's one cup of something and everything else in in tablespoons etc there's a way to sort this out.

Put a mug or glass on your scales (glass is better 'cos you can mark it) and zero them. Now add water until the scales show 250grams. This is where you can stick a bit of label or sticky tape on the outside of this glass to mark the water level.

THAT is one cup

Just dry the glass off and fill it with flour or sugar (whatever) to that level and your recipe will be right.

If you happen to have a smaller glass or tumbler that comes to about 250 when full it's even easier

LuislovesGuinness

Thanks for the help guys - I was being thick as when I had another thorough look at the borrowed BM there was a measuring jug that came with it and on it was CUP....
Anyway, the machine is now nearly 20 minutes into it's cycle and the loaf is due to be ready at about 7.30pm. I will let you know how it comes out.

LuislovesGuinness

Yummy - just tried the first loaf out of the borrowed BM and it tastes soooo good... Oh dear, can see a purchase being made sometime in the near future as friend will want hers back soon :rolleyes: Will be trying a fruit type loaf tomorrow, hopefully the first one wasn't just a fluke