DON'T run out of bread

[tim]

just before lunch - or you get lumbered!! Thank God for the AGA! - Tim

[tim]

[busy_lizzie]

Oh Tim! You have got my mouth watering - just the thing with some melting butter and jam and a cup of  steaming hot tea on a cold and wet November day, which it is here. Lovely!  busy_lizzie  :P :P

[Hyacinth]

Great, mouth-watering pic, Tim...funny thing about making bread, tho...

Putting the ingredients into a bread-making machine is a 'man's thing' these days - anyone else noticed??? And how proud they are, saying that they always make the bread - yeah right..

Restore my faith in human nature, Tim & tell me that this was really made by hand(s) - and that they were all yours??

please????

[tim]

- if you can show me a machine that will make a 4 1/4 lb, 15" loaf, I'll say I was cheating. OK? - Tim

[Hyacinth]

Fair do's Tim...did think I'd never seen a bread-making machine hearse-shaped...what yeast do you use, though & what rising time does the whole thing need? - Lishka

[gavin]

Oi, Alishka!  - Only bread-machine in my place is me own arms! And the kids love learning to make bread too (the real way!)

All best - Gavin

PS  Blast - reminds me I'd promised to do that this weekend.

[tim]

- we have to ORDER fresh yeast these days - so, since it's always a last minute event, it's any fast acting stuff. They say one rise - like 40-60 min - but a second can help. We had a visitor while I was doing it, or it would be somewhat puffier. Don't forget to chuck a cup of water into the oven, soon after the bread has gone in? - Tim

PS (later) - if the real point was 'how long does it take' - 1hr 40min. Less if it's rolls. Main prob with proving on the AGA is to prevent it rising too fast - and drying out on top. Polythene bag essential.

[teresa]

Oh Tim I bet you had lovely soft hands afterwards. I did two loaves last week hubby and dad were so impressed hubby went out and bought a bread machine.
So now everyother day I do a loaf.
Not the same as by hand the satifaction but good eating
Teresa

[budgiebreeder]

When using a Bread-machine just use it to the dough stage and do the rest by hand .I find this way much better as I like really well baked loaves.

[teresa]

Hi,
I have done the egg and water that turned out ok havent tried the darker crust yet. Tried the all milk one a flop. So will have to get powder milk and try that.
Pity it does not have a light inside keep getting the torch and peering in sad I know.
Teresa

[tim]

-one other little nicety -

" cucumber sandwiches, m'lady?"

Just try it  with Tesco's wholemeal !!

And you can spread real butter on it. - Tim

 (I'll get the macro focus sorted one day?)

[legless]

if you have a morrisons, they sell fresh yeast..

great looking bread, makes me want to get a bigger tin!

[Mrs Ava]

I make my own bread as often as I can, but with the two nippers, time is of the essence, so I have started using my dough hooks that came with my hand blender thingy.  Never really believed they worked, but they don't do a bad job.  I make up the dough, then leave it in the bowl and knead it using the hooks on the slowest setting for about 5 or so minutes.  Does a good job, my hands are clean so I can quickly untangle the kids when they are fighting, my side is not covered in dough and flour, so clearing up is minimal, good when they are demanding apples peeled, crisps open, orange juice or the loo!  Always do 2 risings, even with wholemeal.  My problem is, I could take the loaf out of the oven, cut it down the middle, squash half a pound of butter into the hot bread, hide in the greenhouse, and scoff the lot, in one go!   :P

[budgiebreeder]

Watch out Emmajanne thats how the inches start piling on in Winter.It's the smell that starts your taste buds going.

[MissBaritone]

If you ask at the bakery counter of your local supermarket most of them actually give you fresh yeast FREE

[Palustris]

Aldi's Bread making flour is good and cheap too. But what is the point of a large loaf like that? We only just manage to eat a normal size one before it goes dry.

[Hyacinth]

Eric, Tim has Little People around (and hungry) like others have mice  :D  And his culinary magic is quite Biblical when there's fish on the menu, too :P - Lish

[Mrs Ava]

aaahhh, but once it goes dry you can make the best bread and butter pud, or bread pud.  YumYumYumYUM!  :P

[tim]

Miss B - yes,  they used to.

legless - it's an expanding tin!

EJ - yes, the hooks work fine if you have a go-slow control. We only have a Magimix.

Eric - that loaf was gone in 4 days - and, in a cold larder, it was still good eating!- Tim