Having just tasted a friend's delicious homemade bread, and the sales still being on here, I think I'll take the plunge and by a breadmaker. But which one? :-\
I've read through this thread
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,9938.40.html (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,9938.40.html)
which is nearly three years old now, and was wondering if anyone had any feedback on the machines they have bought.
I have made all my bread for the last five years with a Murphy Richards Fast Bake machine. You do need to be very careful with the amount of yeast, packets say they hold approx. 1 tsp but it is much too much for most recipes in my opinion.
This might be a more helpful link Lindsay.
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,9938.0.html (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,9938.0.html)
And yes, I still love my Panasonic, though now I am running a sandwich business and get my bread delivered from the bakers, it mostly makes pizza dough and foccaccia at the mo! ;D
And Hello Laurie! How's the weather! ;D
DP
Best Buys Panasonic SD-252
Price: £79
Score: 81%
We got good results with this Best Buy Panasonic model on all types of bread â€" and outstanding wholemeal and white loaves.
It lacks some of the program options you'll find on the SD-253, but that is reflected in the price.
Panasonic SD-253
Price: £99
Score: 81%
This top-class Best Buy bread maker from Panasonic produces bread that is far superior to that of other machines on test â€" and it's better tasting than shop-bought, unsliced loaves.
Panasonic has been making top-class bread makers for years, clocking up Best Buys in all our recent tests. This machine keeps that run going, producing excellent white and wholemeal loaves
hi Lindsay
I started this thread off last year, when I wanted to buy one:
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,31738.0.html
I bought the Panasonic in the end and it's fab. I use it at least once a week, mostly for basic loaves, but you can use them to do all sorts of other stuff: dough for rolls, pizza bases, cakes, etc. I'm still working my way through the recipe book that comes with it :)
I too would recommend the Panasonic (with nut dispenser ;D )
barkingdog
Quote from: tim on January 22, 2008, 12:53:10
Best Buys Panasonic SD-252
Price: £79
I bought this machine about 18 months ago - worth its weight in gold. I use it every other day & have never had a bad loaf. Just put on half a stone cos I can't stop eating more bread. ::) ;D
Hi
Tha SD 253 is an excellent machine, a good allrounder that always produces good results. Excellent pizza dough, chelsea buns sponges etc etc. Very reliable.
Panasonic.. without a doubt from this old gal XX Jeannine
Definitely the Panasonic with the nut dispenser :P
That tongue is licking it's lips, not being poked at you ;)
My vote is for the Panasonic SD 253 which is the one with the nut dispenser. We mess about with the recipe and the bread still turns out great. ;D
Looks like the Panasonic is the one then! ;D
Here's hoping I find one in the shops, otherwise I think I'll be ordering one. With such recommendations, I daren't buy anything else!
Many thanks everyone ;D ;D
PS - should have acknowledged that my quotes were from - where else - Which!!
Best breadmaker? My son. Soon after he had some supermarket bread with plastic bits in it he decided to make his own. I bought the book Dough for his birthday, French style preparation, no f*rting around kneading etc, it's 1000 times better than any machine made bread. We've eaten bread made from various different machines, and there is absolutely no comparison. Well worth a little effort.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dough-Simple-Contemporary-Bread-free/dp/1856266109/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201027895&sr=8-5
Quote from: Lindsay on January 22, 2008, 17:33:30
Looks like the Panasonic is the one then! ;D
Here's hoping I find one in the shops, otherwise I think I'll be ordering one. With such recommendations, I daren't buy anything else!
Many thanks everyone ;D ;D
I bought mine from Amazon!
barkingdog
Mine was from Amazon too!
Mine too, free delivery XX Jeannine
Surely the best bread maker is the two things on the ends of your arms. But I'm old fashioned!!
I would agree but we turned to the breadmaker when thos things stopped working right
We ordered from Amazon and waited...and waited......and waited.......and cancelled the order and bought it from our local waitrose for £5 more. I think the Which report must have come out just before we ordered from amazon.
Is that Dough book any good??
Im a complete novice at bread making any was on the look out for such a thing.....
Dont mean to hijack.......sorry!
Quote from: killerflies on January 29, 2008, 17:20:53
Is that Dough book any good??
Im a complete novice at bread making any was on the look out for such a thing.....
Dont mean to hijack.......sorry!
It won the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) 2006 Cookbook of the Year Award, the Julia Child Award for First Book, the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Cookery Book - Baking & Desserts and the Guild of Food Writers Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book. Shortlisted for the Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards Best Food Book & Best Photography and the Andre Simon Memorial Fund Award for Best Cookery Book 2005.
This is a quote from someone on a bread making forum I use givimg their opinion on the book.
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/forum
QuoteI have purchased Dough by R Bertinet and I think it is an excellent refreshing book on making bread. It may seem quite basic to some, but I have been baking bread for 15 years and there is always some tidbit to be picked up. What he communicates well in this book is from five basic recipes, many, many breads. And some novel breads they are, bread shots with little treats poked inside balls of dough, puff balls with salad greens hidden inside, morrocan spice rolls all with your basic french bread and it continues in that vein throughout the book. Like Floyd encourages, Richard really allows you to expand your horizons and think outside the white bread box per say.
Along with that it does come with a 30 min DVD illustrating his method of hand kneading and how to shape and form various loaves. Nice to have and basic, but I picked up a few things from him. It is evident in his video how much he loves his bread and loves to bake.
As you can see, I do like the book. Found one copy at B&N and previewed the recipes a and the intro before I bought. I say do the same,and perhaps you will enjoy as much as I did.
Well, the bread my son makes from it is the best we've eaten. The DVD explains it all very well, demonstrating, and there is no hard graft kneading either. It's hands on and the mixture gets slapped round the bowl till it "comes to life" or so it seems. It's hard to describe, but you can see the mixture changing and it only takes a few minutes to do. Obviously the proving takes time, as it would anyway. We're completely sold on this method.
Definately Panasonic. We had a Prima previously and it was erratic and seemed to be temperature dependant on where you used it. Didn't always give good results. The Panasonic however has proved (excuse the pun) itself over and over again. It was more expensive at the time but well worth the extra dough. Sorry I couldn't resist ;D
It was in Waitrose where I first sampled and saw bread that had just been made in a Panasonic breadmaker. It was delicious and I promised myself that I would buy one at some future date when the price came down. That was about 5 years ago and I still haven't bought one. Maybe I will think about it again as they are cheaper now than they were 5 years ago. :D
My OH thinks it will be like the yoghurt maker. I bought it three years ago and haven't used it yet!! ::)
It won the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) 2006 Cookbook of the Year Award, the Julia Child Award for First Book, the James Beard
Bought it on Amazon. Thanks to all for feedback. The Hijack is officially over. Apologies. ;)
No need to apologise for the hijack - I found it interesting as well! :)
Haven't bought a machine yet - need to save a few pennies first I think!
Quote from: Paulines7 on January 30, 2008, 11:37:01
It was in Waitrose where I first sampled and saw bread that had just been made in a Panasonic breadmaker. It was delicious and I promised myself that I would buy one at some future date when the price came down. That was about 5 years ago and I still haven't bought one. Maybe I will think about it again as they are cheaper now than they were 5 years ago. :D
Earlier this week, I went to look at the Panasonic SD255 breadmaker with fruit and nut dispenser in Comet (£99.95) and Waitrose (£99.95).
I thought I would try to see if I could get it cheaper on line having decided on that particular model. I found Amazon did them for £89.99 with free delivery so I have ordered one..................Yipee ;D ;D ;D
It has been dispatched so I should get it shortly. ;)
Quote from: silverbirch on January 28, 2008, 22:48:04
Surely the best bread maker is the two things on the ends of your arms. But I'm old fashioned!!
absolutely - think of all the flour you could buy for that money spent on a machine, so therapeutic too ;D and so many recipes out there - along with pasta and yogurt these are the things that get made every week
Well done Pauline, speaking from long time breadmaker who did it by hand to feed eight for donkey's years you won't regret the Panasonic. I am no longer able to stand and knead and I find it is an excellent machine. It takes me 30 secs flat to set mine going and that is that.
I buy my flour in mill sacks then I make bread mixes ahead of time and pack them in plastic bags. On the day I chuck one in the machine add the water and oil and turn it on.
I tried a few borrowed ones before I settled on the Panasonic, now a few years old and still going strong.
XX Jeannine
Like you Jeannine I used to make bread very many years ago but unlike you I was never very good at it. Now that my hands are deformed with arthritis it is out of the question to even attempt making it by hand again.
I have already bought three different types of flour, strong white, strong brown and strong stoneground, but what sort of oil will I need? I have corn, sunflower and olive oil in the cupboard. Will any of them be any use? Also, what yeast should I buy please? :-\
Silverbirch and Calendula, I know a breadmaker will not save me money, but I do not have a shop in my village and it means a 10 mile return trip just to buy a loaf. I tend to get over this by freezing bread but it doesn't taste the same when it has defrosted. I also end up buying a large loaf because I think we will need it but then I have to give it to the chickens halfway through the week because it has gone mouldy.
I have also noticed that the price of bread has gone up considerably these past few months and Warburton loaves are about £1.50 each. I tend therefore to get something a bit cheaper but it isn't quite what I wanted. :(
of course machines have their wonderful uses :)
a lot of people I know set their machine to make bread very early in the morning so it is ready for breakfast and they wake to the lovely smell - that seems a nice idea
Pauline, my basic oil is sunflower, I never use corn oil and only use olive oil for cooking and dressings, but I would use in in some special breads.
The yeast I use is the instant easy blend one and I buy it in a packet not individual sachets.
Flour I use strong white, and I also use a sprouted wheat called Bradmore/Bradmalt, this covers the two breads that I use regularly.
I would think Bradmore is available all over , I am lucky that I am within driving distance of the mill that makes it.
Basic recipes.
White
Set on large loaf.(4 hours) soft crust(light)
Put things in in this order (if you don't make the kits ahead of time)
I make mine using a US baking cup set, and a measuring spoon set,you can buy these in Tescos now, I can't be bothered weighing stuff!! Fill the cups RIGHT to the top and level off with a knife blade.
1 1/2 cups water &&&&
1 1/2 5ml teaspoons of salt
4 1/2 cups of strong white flour
1/4 of a vitamin c tablet crushed between two teaspoons ***
2 15 ml tablespoons oil
1 5 ml teaspoon of easy blend yeast
Press start.
Remove the second the machine stops as it tends to go soft if not.
Cool on a wire tray.
*** The vitamin c tablet adds vitamins but more important it acts as a dough improver and helps the dough react with the yeast better and you will get a better rise.
&&&&& If I make it I fill the water cup till it won't hold 1 drop more, John can't do this without spilling it,and always leaves a bit of space, so on his recipe I have added 1 tablespoon of water, whichever way the water should add up to 12 fluid ounces total.
You can change the oil to butter but oil is easier to measure out.
If you can find the Bradmore flour I can post the other one
I keep mine in a snap top plastic container that fits the loaf perfectly, available in Tesco.
Have fun XX Jeannine
Jeannine, thank you so much for all the information, I am really looking forward to having a go now. I will buy the snap top plastic container that you mention if they have it in my local Tesco.
I have never heard of Bradmore flour and a search on the Internet hasn't revealed anything either. It must just be local to your area. I will have to ask my son to bring some back with him when he goes to Hull again!
Which brand of yeast do you use Jeannine? Would Doves Farm Quick Yeast be suitable? They stock it at Tesco so I could get my John to pick some up tomorrow during his lunch hour. He can also get the Vitamin C.
Tonight mine mostly made Rosemary & Onion dough to be made into rolls by me, to accompany our cassoulet................................lovely they were too! ;D
Pauline The name f the company is EB Bradshaw,Bell Mills,Skerne Road,Driffield 01377 253163
The Garden centre attached where I get the flour from is called Bell Mills Garden Centre, 01377 254043
The yeas I use is Allisons, but any will do, just make sure it says easy blend on it, quick yeast is not the same thing.
Oh and I should have put 1 tablespoon of sugar in the recipe.
From the mill I buy Strong flour I think it is called Orion, plain white flour called Venus athe sprouted one called Bradmalt and a SR one. the big csacks are betweem £6/£7 depending ont type, if you go check that Orion is the one with the hadr Canadian wheat in it
XX Jeannine
Jeannine,do you remember in the seventies there was a craze for baking bread in flowerpots.New of course.They were great the bread looked so rustic.
My daughter in law has just had a panasonic bread maker and she tells me it is really good. :)
Betula, yes I do, they made good bread. I used to have a panchon in those days too but it broke, I have tried for yeard to find another with no luck
XX Jeannine
Yipee!! My breadmaker has arrived. I have unpacked it and read all the instructions ready for my first attempt tomorrow.
Jeannine, I bought the effervescent vitamin C tablets. Are they the right ones please?
Pauline I don't know, the ones I use are not effervescent, try them , if the bread is good use them if not don't.. you can use them for yourself if you get a cold!! I use the tablets as a baker friend told me to years ago and the bread does rise more with them but I don 't know if they are in any recipe so you could leave them out.
You probably have it baked by now !!!
Don't be upset if the first couple are not exactly as you want them, even flours differ.
Let us all know.
XX Jeannine
Quote from: Jeannine on February 18, 2008, 23:29:33
You probably have it baked by now !!!
XX Jeannine
Now come on Jeannine, I haven't found a suitable place to put it yet! ::) ;D
There is no room on the working surfaces in the kitchen as it would be too near the overhanging cupboards. Eventually it will go into the utility room that is being done up at the moment. The working surfaces have yet to be fitted in there by my OH, but he has been too busy out in the garden these past few weekends!
I may be able to put it on the kitchen table as an interim measure, just to try it out. I will let you know when my first loaf is produced. ;D ;D
Just rediscovered this thread. My bread can be a bit hit and miss. Do you think that has anything to do with using a cheaper bread maker. Mine is a Morphy Richards I got from freecycle.
I usually use a bread mix now, but still the results can be a bit different.
cj :)
Here it is, my first loaf made in my Panasonic. I suppose I cheated a bit because I used a bread mix of dried tomatoes and parmesan.
Caroline, I was speaking to my niece this afternoon (Prink 13) and she has a Morphy Richards which she picked up for a fiver. She tends to use the packet mixes as they give better results in her machine being not so hit and miss.
Thanks Pauline,
I was beginning to think it was me. Better start saving for a panasonic ;D
That looks tasty!!I can almost smell it ;D
cj :)
As a mere man (who's made bread regularly for 35+ years): what's a bread mix? why do you need to put oil in bread? why do you need sugar & vitamin C?
Flour - 2 lb; Water - 1 pint; salt - 1 desertspoon; yeast - quarter ounce; rising time - all day
Simple. (Don't even have to knead if you can't, though it's better if you can: use a machine for that bit, but bake in oven - far better results.)
Granddaughter number 1 (aged 7) makes gorgeous bread!
Trevor,
I thought kneading was essential. What difference does it make if you dont? Do you just stir it? Will it work with fast action yeast?
Thanks
cj :)
I was thinking of the Grant Loaf. Just mix up the dough & leave it to rise, then pop it into the pan. It's a wartime recipe; try googling "Dorothy Grant". (I think the original idea was to encourage busy housewives to make bread, and it wasn't given much rising time. If you use the same recipe, but let it rise for hours, it produces very nice bread.)
But yes, I always knead (5 minutes). But let it prove for at least 8 hours. (Come on - get a life! You're not seriously going to sit there & watch it rise, are you??? Go and dig the lottie!!!)
Fast action?? What's fast about bread?? (That's the point!!!)
Try using Sainsbury's own flour not Tesco or Asda I find I get much better results. I've got a Russell Hobbs had it for 3 years now use it mostly every day.
Thanks Rosyred,
I dont have a sainsburys near me though, so I wil have to wait a while till I get to one.
cj :)
Well I bought a Lidl breadmaker about 4 years ago. It makes two loaves (sanwiches for my son and me) and I have used it 3 times a week. It cost the grand sum of £29.99. Unfortunately they only appear to do a single loaf version now as mine needs replacing :'(
As for flour, I use the best basic ones I can find; Waitrose or Doves Organic brown and white breadmaking flour or from a colleague who mills flour at an old watermill.
Recipe
2.25 cups flour
1 tsp quick dried yeast
0.5 tsp sea salt
0.5 tbspn sugar
1 tbspn sunflower oil
7 fl oz water
The only problem I have had was when I used rye flour - it was too heavy to be stirred by the machine and I only just rescued it in time!
OC
You don't need to put sugar or oil in bread, but you do in the particular recipe I quoted.
I also have recipes for breads that don't have to be kneaded but again they are a different type of bread to the one posted most are batter breads.
My regular bread which I prefer is a sour dough French, I don't put oil or sugar in that one and I use a sour dough that has been on the go for years, but I do have to knead that one. I use a Kenwood Major when making it as I am unable to hand knead anymore but even handling the dough is a problem sometimes for me so I don't do it so often.
I used to love kneading, I did it to several verses of Rock Of Ages, it was just the right rhythm, and it felt really good to whack it down from shoulder height every so often, but those days are past.
...but then I can't do the splits anymore either LOL
A really good book for budding bread makers by the way is Bernard Claytons Complete book of Breads, it is one of many I have and I think the best, it should be in the library.
Your bread looks smashing Pauline, don't forget the butter, and I have it on good authority that if you eat it before it cools the calories in the butter don't count!! Sounds a bit like the other phoney too...if you eat chocolates in the bath the calories don't count LOL
I hope you enjoy your machine, well done.
XX Jeannine
QuoteI have it on good authority that if you eat it before it cools the calories in the butter don't count!! Sounds a bit like the other phoney too...if you eat chocolates in the bath the calories don't count LOL
Is that so!!! (no ...dont spoil it for me ::))
cj :)
Trevor, most of the recipes in the Panasonic handbook say to add butter or oil, sugar and salt. They say it helps the bread to rise. It's good that your granddaughter enjoys making bread.
Loaf number two came out yesterday. This time it was a plain white one. Not quite as delicious as the sundried tomato and parmesan but far superior to any bought loaves. I will try making a wholemeal loaf tomorrow.
Jeannine, I am avoiding butter at the moment and use a cholesterol lowering margerine. My last count was high despite being on a high dose of medication for it! The bread was so tasty that I didn't notice the spread! ;D ;D
Not strictly on topic but is about breadmaking. The Dough book (and Jamie O on TV the other day) suggest a slab of granite in the oven to bake on. Does anyone else actually do this and will any old granite do?
Hi I have stone slab (not granite though)I use for some things like pizza, and I have a marble one too. You can use any natural stone but not the composite ones that you buy in tile shops..
They give a lovely crisp crust, be careful with the weight if you are using it on a shelf thogh and have it small enough that there is an airflow around it.
I like them very much and would not be without them.
XX Jeannine
Thanks Jeannine :)
anyone tried the bread making packs from lakeland plastics, they have lots of different ones :)
No, I haven't tried them but have bought Wrights. I love their sun dried tomato bread mix but my overall favourite is Sainsbury own brand sunflower bread mix.
;D ;D
Does anyone else have any favourites?
i was thinking about getting a bread maker but i don't want it to be a fad.
where you would use it once or twice then it would end up in the cu bored collecting dust like the sandwich toaster. ;D
I totally agree, it took me several years to buy one after borrowing firends to try now and again. I actually used to laugh at folks with breadmakers, but as time went on and my arms became a problem I started to buy bread which we hate , so I started to seriously investigate the choices of bread makers, it took me more than a year to make up my mind and I have never regretted it.
I thought I would be the last person in the world to get one, it is definitely not a fad in this house, it is in constant use.
XX Jeannine
Well, having asked the question a few weeks ago, I'm afraid :-[ I didn't take your advice and buy the Panasonic - it wasn't available here, and I didn't want to buy on the Internet. So I bought a cheap one, equivalent of £35, because, like Wiltshire Lass, I didn't want to spend a lot of money on something that wouldn't get used too often.
Having had our bread machine four weeks now, it has been in use on average four times a week, and it is absolutely brilliant. ;D
I have been trying the different programme settings, and so far they have all been successful. It is currently preparing a fruit and nut loaf - can't wait for teatime!
The only problem we have had is with the prepared packet mixes from Lidl - they are too salty for us. So when I use them, I halve the packet mix and make it up with ordinary flour, and this seems to be fine.
So I would say, go ahead - it is worth every penny/euro/dime whatever ! ;D
Pleased that you have found one suitable Lindsay, what make is it?
I have had mine a month now and have not bought a shop loaf since. I bake almost every day and use a bread mix most times. I may have to do what Jeannine does and make up several packs of my own bread mixes as it will be more convenient.
I tried making currant bread from the recipe in the Panasonic book, but I was a little bit disappointed with it flavour wise. Has anyone any recipes for currant bread, hot cross or Chelsea buns please?
Haven't used my breadmaker for ages, but I do remember that adding a good dollop of malt extract to fruit bread made it taste all the better. :)
Mine is just a supermarket make - Casino Géant (well known supermarket brand here in France).
The fruit and nut loaf made earlier this afternoon was deeeeelicious - not much left! The recipe makes a 900g loaf (excuse metric measurements!)
330 ml water
3 teaspoons oil
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon brown sugar
80g raisins
80g nuts (I used half pistachio, half sunflower seeds)
teaspoon salt
460g flour
4g yeast
If you try it, Pauline7 - I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! :)
teacakes
I just do the dough then split them
half a cup of black tea
three quarters of a cup of warmed milk
2 tablespons butter, melted and cooled
2 tablespons caster sugar (I cut this down)
half teaspoon salt(I don't put this in )
3 cups bread flour, I use half white, half brown, if all white, just use half a cup of warmed milk
1 teaspoon yeast
I use 2 teaspoons mixed spices
to finish, four and a half ounces of mixed fruit and peel
they taste great ;D
mmm, Manics - that's the next afternoon treat sorted then! ;D
hi all
i have had my bread maker for 7yrs it was £30 from tesco in eire where i lived at the time (dont think it was €) as they all do similar the cheapest will do the same job. i use lidl strong flour with a bit of hovis wholemeal and i find it keeps a little better if you use olive oil
pams dish
hiya, pamsdish, welcome to the site..I use Lidl's flour, it works a treat, I like using olive oil as well ;D
check out
http://www.visprod.co.uk
for flour and fresh yeast + tons of other stuff
I have bought from them and they deliver, they have the Bradmalt flour I mentioned earlier although I but mine stright from the mill
Does anyone know, how much fresh yeast to use, if you are replacing dry yeast.
I have a book of bread recipes which I use, but it always says one packet of yeast, where I have blocks of fresh in the freezer, be nice to use it up :)
Well I just googled it, and found this on the Country Living website. And Country Living should know, surely? ;) ;D
"Yeast is available in a number of different forms, which are interchangeable in recipes providing that the method is adjusted accordingly. As a rough guide, 15g (1/2oz) fresh yeast, a 7g sachet (2tsp) fast-action (easy-blend) dried yeast, or 1 tbsp ordinary dried yeast is enough to rise 700g (11/2lb) flour. In general, if you add more than this, the dough will not rise any higher and the bread is likely to have an unpleasant yeasty taste. However, if the dough is enriched with fruit, sugar, butter or nuts, the rise is more difficult and you will usually need more yeast - be guided by the recipes. "
The general rule is to use twice as much fresh yeast by weight as you would dry yeast.
sachet contains 2 1/4 teaspoons =).6 opunce of fresh but I use 1/2ounce.
The link I put on a couple of posts on isn't blue and doesn't work here it is again
http://www.visprod.co.uk
Just for interest.. Polish shops sell little packets of fresh yeast.
Thats where I get mine from :)
Doris or anyone. Can you give me a few tips on making pizza dough please? I have recently bought the panasonic with nut dispenser. Someone suggested using a packet mix for making Ciabatta bread so I bought one. How do I know when to take it out and then what do I do with it? Help. Thanks.
Thank you Lindsay and Manicscousers for your fruity recipes which I have copied to a Word document and printed.
I noticed that a separate thread has been opened for recipes so looks like there will be a few more to try. ;D ;D ;D
tomatoada, I have for years used Julia Child's Pizza Dough recipe, (Below) just bung all the ingredients in the pan, and put it on the 45 minute dough or does it say pizza (?) programme. (ignore the rest of the method, ie; put in processor!)
When finished take it out, shape into 4 rounds, make up on a board or pizza paddle sprinkled with cornmeal, top and slide onto pre heated baking sheets or pizza stone , at a high temp. (I do our on gas 8)
My fave topping is goats cheese, garlic, red onions, capers, olives basil, sun dried tommies, and on the last 5 mins I throw on a handful of fresh spinach or rocket & drizzle with olive oil! delish. The rest of the family love their bog standard cheese, tomato n ham ;D
Julia Child's Pizza Dough
1 1/2 tsp bread machine yeast
3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup milk
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 1/2 tsp salt
pinch sugar
Place all ingredients except water in a food processor. Pulse to mix well. Then turn machine on and drizzle the water in until it forms a ball. Let the ball go around a few times in the machine to knead it a bit. Remove dough onto a floured surface and knead well for a few minutes until elastic. Place in a greased bowl and let rise until doubled. Remove from bowl and punch down. Cut into 2 pieces and roll out into 4 medium size crusts, enough to feed 4 people. Turn oven on and preheat at 400°F for 30 minutes, if using pizza stone. If no stone, preheat oven to 400°F for 10-15 minutes. Place pizza crust on the back of a baking sheet that has been covered with a sprinkling of cornmeal. Place in oven and bake for 8 minutes. Remove and cover with toppings. Place back in oven and bake for 8 more minutes until crust is golden and cheese is bubbly.
Hope this helps
DP
Has anyone noticed that on the troubleshooter in the booklet that comes with the breadmaker, they say that one of the reasons for the bread not being mixed properly is that the paddle has been left out?
Well, what idiot would do that? ::)
OK I confess.....me :-[
I tried making rice bread yesterday. I left it to do its business and was looking forward to getting home to freshly cooked bread. It wasnt mixed at all. I emptied the useless mixture into the bin, but couldnt find the paddle. I was about to get stuck in to find it when it dawned on me. There was the paddle, on the draining board.
I am trying again this morning, and have double checked....the paddle is definately in there this time. ;D
cj :)
Out of curiosity I did a bit of googling in french - found the suggestion that a Casino Geant breadmaker, Funix, is a Kenwood under the skin because the safety notice reads 'your Kenwood machine is fitted with ... '
I got my breadmaker out today because I bought a loaf of bread yesterday, and it's nearly all gone. And there ain't no shops open. It was only after I set it all away that I read the "best before" date on the dried yeast sachet. August 2006. ::) It's nearly baked now, and it's worked just fine. I keep it in the fridge, so maybe that helps. Haven't used the maker for a couple of years, so that explains the age of the yeast
I'm thinking of making some fruit loaf or teacakes next.
My breadmaker was bought a few years ago in Woolies. It was on special offer at £20, but even better, when OH went to pay for it they were having a "20% of kitchen electricals" day, so it only cost him £16. Not a well-known branded one, and only makes one size of loaf (1.5lb), but it works just fine. :)
I've had my Hinari breadmaker for 8 yrs now...and still going strong..I've had to buy new tin once though as I use mine 2-3 times a week...amounts to some mountain of bread over those years ::)
I stopped using recipes long ago...it is just throw in "this and that and a
little bit of those"..read= this and that flour and handfull of seeds and nuts..
I buy my flour mainly from my local petfood supplier, they do some basic bread flours, grains etc. as well.
But if you want really strong bread flavour..I'll buy some malted grains for beer making..pour boiling water over few spoonfull of these grains and let it cool down...I use this "beer" to replace the water in the recipe...yum!!!
And if you use really dark malts...like for quiness type ales...your bread become nice and dark...goes well with a bit of rye flour.
I have just found my recipe book for all kinds of breads in the breadmaker, the parsnip and nutmeg one sound good. It has 90 recipes if anyone is looking for anything specific.
XX Jeannine