Breadmaker / Breadmaking

[GrumpyGregry]

Looking for some killer bread recipes to play around with in my breadmaking machine. Happy to finish the dough in the oven or leave in for the machine to finish.

What are your favourites?

 

[ohnovino]

Beer and Mustard bread

250ml warm flat beer
1 tbsp milk powder
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp grainy mustard
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp yeast

You might have to play about with that recipe a bit, because the sugar in the beer and the oil/salt/vinegar in the mustard all alter how the yeast works, but get it right and it's fantastic.

Apart from that I usually start with a standard white bread recipe that works, then just add a few things. A big squirt of tomato purée makes bread that perfect for bacon butties. Grated cheese works well too: surprisingly you get the flavour but it doesn't really alter the texture.

 

[Rezillo]

1. Standard wholemeal bread recipe but make the flour half spelt, half strong white and use honey instead of sugar. You may have to add 25 gm or so more flour to take up the moisture added by the honey.

2. Standard wholemeal bread recipe but using 100% spelt flour. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon, three teaspoons of mixed spice and a couple of handfuls of mixed fruit. You get a dense bread that tastes like a hot cross bun but with none of the dry roughness of a normal wholemeal loaf. Spelt is great stuff.

Untreated stoneground flour makes a big difference to the taste and texture.

John

 

[Tyke]

+1 for the Grated cheese, the bread also seems to stay fresh longer as well if you can stop it being eaten straight away.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...but I don't tend to bother now as I've found a really good place for spelt flour.

Flushed down the khazi?

 

[rich p]

I spelt flower

 

[Bayerd]

Flushed down the khazi?

That's the early morning OJ all over the screen.....

 

[User482]

I only use stone ground flour or spelt in mine. Has anyone tried fresh yeast? The recipe for foccacia in the Panasonic instructions is pretty good - I supplement it with lots of olive oil, chopped olives, sun-dried tomatoes and sage.

 

[Michiel]

I love bread making. I have taken over from OH who taught me how to do it and now it's pretty much my domain. Normal bread is about half on half of wholemeal flour and white but with a good dosage of seedlings thrown in (Sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, poppy etc). Although I make it the old fashioned way without using a bread machine

But have also made rye breads (using greek yoghurt) and spelt flour breads.

which really reminds me ... I need to make some today

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I only use stone ground flour or spelt in mine. Has anyone tried fresh yeast? The recipe for foccacia in the Panasonic instructions is pretty good - I supplement it with lots of olive oil, chopped olives, sun-dried tomatoes and sage.

Yep. I did something wrong though as the result was a housebrick whereas Allinson dried yeast produces wonder loaves.

What's the panasonic recipe?