Thread: Bread making machine.

For those with no breadmaker or a broken breadmaker [as mine is], you may find this simple recipe to be almost as easy as a breadmaker.......My Hitachi breadmaker has been down for almost 3 months back and forth in the service center and not repaired so out of despiration I found this simple no knead bread that I have varied the basic recipe and have come out with better bread than my machine has ever produced.......so simple that a 4 yr old can do it.
http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html

Any pic of the flour bag from Tesco ?

I'd give the "no knead" bread a go but for the fact that my gas oven doesn't get hot enough to brown anything. I have no such problems with the bread maker as its electric. I must give 12Call's suggestion about fennel and tomato a go.

The finish on that loaf looks tops.

Originally Posted by blackgang

I will give it a try as mine says to put the liquid in first and then the yeast and salt and sugar on top of flour,
I have been getting some fantastic good bread with yeast instead of sour dough and I am just learning what each or the 10 programs does.
I really do like it tho, and thanks again for the tips.

That's strange. See my post above on page 4 - I found that keeping the yeast away from the sugar and salt improved the bread no end - the rise was just miles (not literally) better.

I'll take a pic of my next loaf and post it

my machine says to put into pan in order listed in recipe, and this recipe is in my book that came with machine, and it was right up to the glass on this last loaf, so it seems to be in right order, and the only difference between this last loaf and the 2 before it is the sack the flour came out of..

^ Tops had run out of the Ozzie flour but I got you the next best thing, some genuine yankee doodle dandy stuff 2 x 2 kg.
Picked up a nice dark rye flour, add 20% into the yankee stuff and you got yourself a nice tasting bread, and it will be better when I get the proper Ozzie flour to you in a week or so.

I have ordered this one so I shall see how she runs and update.

^, what are you talking about??

Far Fucking out Petey, You are the greatest.

I have ordered this one so I shall see how she runs and update.

OK, I tried putting the liquid in first with the yeast, and then putting the yeast, sugar and salt on top, and noticed no difference in the bread coming out of the machine.
But due to the fact that the liguid is on the bottom and the other stuff on top, they are dry until it starts to mix, which it does 23 minutes after the switch is activated.
I just took a loaf out and it was yeast first with warm milk/water, can see no diff. in the end product tho.

I'm looking forward to giving bread machine a whirl along with the pie machines.

Try putting the water - 2/3 cold, 1/3 hot, the sugar and the yeast in first and wait 15 minutes until the yeast starts foaming in the water/sugar mix. Then put the dry ingredients in. Don't ever let the salt and yeast mix as this will seriously retard the yeast. Seems to work for me anyway. Cheers.

Originally Posted by Nawty

all these machines.....can you get a thai girl machine anywhere ?

she will be doing the on/off buttons.

OK, here with good flour and added 20% rye and it was damn near touching the glass and we lost power for a few minutes and everything seemed OK, but it was [ast time it should have started to cook, so I killed the program and went to a cook cycle and as soon as it started to heat, the fucking fell..
Whazup.???

Originally Posted by blackgang

OK, here with good flour and added 20% rye and it was damn near touching the glass and we lost power for a few minutes and everything seemed OK, but it was [ast time it should have started to cook, so I killed the program and went to a cook cycle and as soon as it started to heat, the fucking fell..
Whazup.???

The loaf collapses because the cell structure becomes unstable and can't support its own weight, the main cause is over proofing I don't know much about bread machines but I would guess thats the reason.

OK, so does that mean that I left it to raise to long then, as it was quite tall.
should I have kneaded it again and then let it raise again?

I have finally got it worked out for my machine for a bread that is the best I have ever eaten.
in the pan goes warmed in micro 250 ml milk,150 ml water and 1 1/2 tsp instant dry yeast.
450 g siam milling co bread flour
150g rye flour
3 TBsp sugar
3TBsp butter
1 1/2 tsp salt

set menu 3 with light crust, which sets machine at 3:50 mins. at 1:50 mins left on clock, take out the dough hooks and then at 1:00 it starts to bake.
Crumb is perfect.
Makes a 1 KG loaf that is 7 inches tall and perfect finish.

Now if I can get Peterpan to ship more rye flour.

Tops have plenty of rye, so will send you some more over before weeks end.

Originally Posted by peterpan

Tops have plenty of rye, so will send you some more over before weeks end.

No real hurry Pete, cept everyone coming over here to have a sandwich for lunch or some stew or chili with bread for lunch and now Sunee wants a loaf to take to school for lunch on Friday and she wants it with Rye too, so I will have to open my last sack.
That shit is knock your dick in the dirt good,, thanks for the help and ideas and your friendship thru my trials and tribulations.

The book can be downloaded for free here DOWNLOAD : The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook Torrent

It's a shame blackgang will miss out on it though as he has me on ignore.