[Closed] Breadmaker help

I tried making banana bread in ours and wasn't very successful, so I'm keen on finding a recipe too!

Seeds and nuts are good simple things to add that make a difference.

most have pretty decent recipe books with them - I'd try and get hold of the one for yours online. There does seem to be substantial variation in recipes between the machines too.

the pre-mixed 'posh' ones from the supermarket are quite good if you want to experiement a bit without too much hassle.

Have loads. Will try and remember this evening...

Fopster
Ta muchly

Xc

I found that recipes from a book didn't work very well. The quantities seemed wrong. But those recipes included with my machine were excellent.

What machine have you got?

matt
Its a panasonic cant remember the model but its about 2-3 years old. I have a book that came with it, but was after something unusual and tasty!

I've got a Panasonic as well. Try the fruit malt loaf recipe. You need some malt extract which I got from a health food store.

When we had a machine there was always something slightly odd about bread it made, could have been a bit visual but the crumb was a bit too spongy and 'bouncy', using it to make the dough and then baking the loaf in the oven helped a lot, gave a much better crust.

Making it completely by hand when the machine finally expired made it really good though.

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Matt Ooooh I wanna try malt loaf, didn't see it in my book anyone got a copy of that recipe?

Nick
Yes it is a little bouncy! i was going to amend the ingredients to see if i can reduce that, still tastes good though!

Matt Ooooh I wanna try malt loaf, didn't see it in my book anyone got a copy of that recipe?

I'll dig the recipe out tonight. Note it's not like Soreen. More breadlike. But still yummy.

Cheers matt
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xc

The panasonic recipe books are available on t'interweb... so you should be able to find them pretty easily.

Although the other half still uses it I seem to have gone over to making bread by hand at the moment. Am currently trying to get my sourdough right... they all come out looking like flying saucers at the moment! I think it's just they are still a little too wet still, but it's fun trying. It's amazing what you can make with just bread and water, and the bread is gorgeous, I just need to get used to long narrow sandwiches!

I use the Andrew Whitley 'Bread Matters' book, which is fantastic.

At work so I'll do one from memory...
If you're in a hurry, this always comes out fine on basic fast setting - less than 2 hrs on a Panasonic (which I also have). I use Doves Farm flour - it's organic and seems to work consitently:

1 tsp yeast
250g white bread flour
250g wholemeal bread flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
About 15g olive oil
About 15-20g runny honey (squeezy bottle makes this mess free and quick, and you can get quite nice honey this way)
320g tepid water

Put in machine in that order, do on a basic quick program and you should get a nice loaf for sandwiches every time. I use electronic kitchen scales for measuring almost everything - even cheap ones go down to 1g and you can weigh ingredients straight into the tin, and remember 1ml water = 1g so no need for measuring jug. Makes process very quick. The main issue is getting right ratio of flour to water - the rest makes a differnce but unlikely to be catastrophic. Best bet if you are not leaving on a timer is to have a look after 10 minutes and add a bit more flour or water depending what it looks like...
Good luck. I'll post a few more interesting ones at home if I remember.

I use crap loads of sunflowers seeds when I make bread. I think they're good for your sperm count??

I like the sound of honey instead of sugar though...

[b]Hi, my first reply so please forgive any "numptyness".
This one is even better when toasted.
Bake on Rapid setting, for a 2lb loaf:
320 ml warm water 48c / 110 f
1/2 cup ready made Pesto
2 tbsp dry milk
2 tbsp sugar
2/3 tsp salt
500g strong bread flour
4tsp or 2 sachets yeast.

[b]Malted Loaf[/b]

Setting: ‘Basic’-‘Bake Raisin’ (4h)
Size Large
Yeast 1tsp
Strong White Flour 500g (1lb 2oz)
Sugar 1 1/2tsp
Salt 1 1/4tsp
Malt Extract 3tbsp
Water 320ml
*Sultanas 150g (put these in the raisin dispenser)

As I mentioned it's more a fruit bread than malt loaf. But still yummy.

Link to a Panasonic [url= http://tda.panasonic-europe-service.com/docs/2z4bfae577z3z254b9z656ez706466z1ez8df9f556ebae668dcbaf75f0db14f8dc755a1ee8/tsn2/data/EU/SD255/OI/779228/SD-255W_SD254_E.pdf ]manual[/url] here.

Cheers guys!
I am going to have to get some extra riding in to balance all that!

especially as the SO is on a carb free diet, talk about bad timing 🙂

Best bet if you are not leaving on a timer is to have a look after 10 minutes and add a bit more flour or water depending what it looks like...

Is it Ok to peek?

OK to peek in mixing - once mixing done I'd give it some privacy for it's swelling...