Bread Making recipes?

[RaRa]

My bread maker has been languishing at the back of the kitchen cupboard since we moved home from the States. Somewhere along the way we lost the recipe book and now I can't remember a single recipe.
Does anyone have a standard recipe for an average loaf made in a bread maker? The easier the better!

 

[RaRa]

Ummm - I think it's a Breville although I'm at work now and can't check. I've googled recipes and got a bit confused with the american measurements. I will check the Panasonic site though and maybe steal from them.

 

[Spinney]

You can always buy those packet mixes - just add water. I've made a few of those in my panasonic, and the amount of water stated on the packet works.

 

[MossCommuter]

You can always buy those packet mixes - just add water. I've made a few of those in my panasonic, and the amount of water stated on the packet works.

This

Hovis packet mixes work best IME

 

[srw]

Water in first, with oil, salt and sugar/honey. Then flour. Then quick-mix yeast. Look online for the proportions.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Walk to shop, buy loaf, walk home, spread lots of butter on (the bread!), eat.

 

[annedonnelly]

Water in first, with oil, salt and sugar/honey. Then flour. Then quick-mix yeast. Look online for the proportions.

My Panasonic is exactly the opposite - yeast first, water last. Morphy Richards was as you describe and the results weren't as good.

 

[wormo]

I have a panasonic. Following recipe for large white loaf I use every week.
1 1/2 teaspoons of fast acting yeast goes in first.
600g strong white flour
1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of powdered milk
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt (ensure doesn't touch yeast)
20g butter ( am going to try with 2 tablespoons of olive oil instead as use this hand made bread)
400 ml of water

If want wholemeal/granary insert 400g of that flour for 400g of white flour (still total of 600) and use 420ml of water. Get a fab loaf everytime. Use this recipe for my bread rolls apart from slightly less water.

Couldn't live without breadmaker as use 3/4 times a week. As well as making bread by hand.

 

[RaRa]

Awesome - thanks for the suggestions

 

[Spinney]

Water in first, with oil, salt and sugar/honey. Then flour. Then quick-mix yeast. Look online for the proportions.

Interesting - my machine has the stuff the other way up! Yeast in first, then the rest of the dry stuff, then the water/oil!


Oops - snap, Anne!

 

[srw]

I forget what make we've got, but the instructions to put the wet ingredients in first are to make sure that the yeast doesn't get wet until you want it to - so that, for instance, if you set it on a timer overnight, your yeast hasn't worn itself out before the machine has a chance to mix.

 

[goo_mason]

This

Hovis packet mixes work best IME

The packet mix used to work a treat in my Panasonic until the packets marked "New improved recipe" hit the shelves last year. All I got was a bread 'brick' from then on. I've tried four or five time since, with the same result.

Using the recipes in the manual or in the free book I got with it still make superb bread, so it's not a machine fault. I just buy the proper Hovis Granary flour and use that to make a Hovis Granary loaf.

 

[Archie_tect]

I usually put half a crushed Vitamin C tablet in too... helps the dough prove: f-in-l told me to do that [he was a baker for 50 years]

 

[RaRa]

I usually put half a crushed Vitamin C tablet in too... helps the dough prove: f-in-l told me to do that [he was a baker for 50 years]

Actually this makes perfect sense as I found a half open tube of Vitamin C tablets in the mix bowl and wondered why there were there.

 

[Archie_tect]

Don't put it in though if using anything with "Flour Improver" added [that's just Vitamin C!].
Don't need to put vinegar into mixes either... it's only added by commercial bakers as a preservative to prevent mould in the stored loaves.