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nooksky

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've eaten the whole loaf I made earlier.

The whole lot.

I tried wrapping it up and putting it away, but I kept nipping back for a bit more.

So the whole 1lb loaf, gone, in under 4 hours

Hahaha thats exactly the sort of thing I would do!! Actually I do that with a lot of things including cake... chocolate... Need I go on!!

lumpy_bum

i cant make a decent loaf either lol
i darent risk 100 quid on a decent breadmaker cos i bet i wouldnt use it enough:o

Anitaj73

This is the bread recipe i use and i have made 3 so far and they have been perfect

Bread
to make it in a 2lb loaf tin, you need

320ml or 1 & 1/3 cups tepid water
500g or 4 & 1/2 cups bread flour
1 & 1/2 tsp salt
1tbsp sugar
2tbsp sunflower oil
1tsp dried yeast

bung all the wet ingredients in the BM

then add flour, salt, sugar then yeast

do it on dough cycle

knead again for couple of mins, then shape and put in a buttered 2lb loaf tin

put somewhere warm to rise

baked it for 10mins at 180 (gas 4), then about 25 mins on 160(gas 3)

when you tip it out and it sounds hollow on the bottom, its ready

tip it out onto cooling rack and cover with a tea towel so you don't break your teeth on the crust!!!

zarazara

Hi all, i bought a MR breadmaker the other day . I'm really pleased with it. only one problem, the bread gets eaten up realy quickly!

lil_me

Andy_Hamilton wrote: »

does it taste homemade / slightly yeasty / stodgy? If it does try using fresh yeast, you can get it from the bakery section of supermarkets (in most cases it's free, some places charge very little and others won't supply any at all but worth trying).

Just noticed your post, you are in the same area as me, well county, if you could share where you manage to get yeast I would appreciate it. Thanks

Andy_Hamilton

My weekly shop is at ASDA in Stanley. When I ask at the bakers section I get very helpful staff who give me a packet around the same size as a pack of 10 cigs. When I get to the till it's automatically put through free so it must be quite common.
I have also tried ASDA at spennymoor, the staff were busy but helpful, I got around a match box size from there.

There is no company policy on handing out the stuff so if you fail to get some at one bakers, try another.

i got a block around the size of a brick from a local bakers for free as my mother buys loads of stuff for work from them. I put enough in a "lock and lock" box for 2-3 weeks the rest goes in the freezer.
Once it starts to turn really sticky (crumbles when fresh) I get another lump from the freezer.

lil_me

Thanks. I'll try there next time I am through that way, tried Tesco before but not Asda (Tesco are nearer) I have been buying it online recently, which to be honest is probably cheaper than the fuel if I am not up that way for some other reason.

Herbaholic

joanie wrote: »

Hi, Just wanted to add my experience.......

my mum has an all singing all dancing breadmaker that does cakes, breads, she can even do jam in it - plus other things....however she rarely gets a good loaf out of it.... she does great cakes though (think mcvitee's jamican cake and golden syrup cake - yum yum)
anyway for christmas 2 years ago she got father christmas to bring me a straight forward - no frills - breadmaker from woolworths (i'd been a very good girl you understand!)..... we went about 6 months without buying any bread! true.. they weren't all perfect - about 1 in 6 were edible (just) but others perfectly fine... used packets and made from scratch both worked fine. Anyway mum decided hers was too fancy so decided to treat herself to the bargain one i got... guess what ? yup! she still can't get a decent loaf out of it!!! I know this is no help - other than your either lucky or not .... but i can agree with you not everyone can use a breadmaker! still think of the calories - hot tasty bread is irresistable.....

I have a Morphy Richards 48280 breadmaker and been making excellent bread with it for the past two years and the only time its failed is when I forgot to add salt, yeast or the paddle :eek:

Your post Joanie made me wonder... 98% of the time my BM makes excellent bread, but I loaned it to my friend who lives in a different area when I went away, and it made terrible bread for her, came out like bricks and she used the same recipes as me (I gave her my breadmaker bible book to use). The only difference is I live in a hard water area and she lives in a soft water area! I just did some 'googling' and came across a treatise on baking and it says that hard water is better for breadmaking "Inasmuch as some mineral salts tend to strengthen the gluten, a certain degree of hardness in water is therefore desirable. Furthermore, the sulphate assists to a small extent in furnishing mineral nutrition to the yeast." You can read the full article yourself here http://abrfaq.info/treatise/190

As your mum has no luck with bread after trying two different BM's I wonder if the water type has anything to do with it? If she's making great cakes in her expensive BM they don't need water. Would it be worth your Mum trying to find out what her water type is? It maybe worth other people checking what sort of water they have before they go to the expense of ditching one BM for another, could be soft water areas will make rubbish bread no matter what kind of BM you have???

floss2

I also have an MR.....when I lived in the leafy Cheshire suburbs I was chief bread-maker & could produce a passable loaf with only one failure (made by DS2 whilst drunk, after he'd eaten the fresh loaf in a fit of boozy munchies with his mate!).

However, since I moved to the Lancashire coast, DF is chief bread-maker & makes much nicer bread...probably down to his being a chemist & measuring everything out a lot more precisely than I did, as I was a bit of a guesser!

zarazara

just made some french bread in my MF breadmaker. absolutely delicious.