Breadmakers

I have made my own bread for years, I send everyone home with a loaf of bread!
I have an 'Anthony Worrall Thompson' think it might be a Breville breadmaker.
I don't cook the bread in the machine just use the dough setting.
Just Strong Bread flour, white, wholemeal, spelt or whatever you fancy
water, butter, sugar, milk powder, bread improver (Lakeland) and Dove's dried yeast (Lakeland)
I also make Chelsea buns, focaccia, naans, fruit breads etc etc everyone loves my baking, and call before they visit to make sure I have made some for them!

We bought a breadmaker as we have to make all our own bread when grandson comes on holiday. He is severely allergic (life threatening anapylactic shocks) to eggs and some nuts - and although bread does not contain either- it's made in bakeries where eggs and nuts are used - and just a trace can trigger severe shock. So that way we can make own bread everyday - it's great and we now use it for ourselves a couple of times a week.

Mine's a Panasonic too. It has been going strong for twelve years now with almost daily use.

Panasonic breadmaker for me too. It's my husband's really as he does all the baking in it. In the last week we've tried olive bread, fruit loaf and malt loaf and yesterday a pecan cake - all done in the breadmaker with fantastic results. Best flour for us is Canadian flour from Waitrose, although we do occasionally buy spelt flour or flour from our local mill.

KatGransnet That's clever!!

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Muesli isn't bad - but I can't rid myself of the feeling that it's pet food.

Both ideas sound delicious Elegran!

Thought I was seeing double, Kat

I've just taken out of the oven some bread and rolls made to the Panasonic "oats and bran" recipe. Had no bran so I substituted more breakfast oats, and I didn't bake it right through in thebreadmaker, but finished it in the fan oven. It smells gorgeous and I can kid myself that it is healthy and "good for me"

I have also in the past made "muesli rolls" which contain some ordinary muesli. Delicious.

I love my breadmaker (Panasonic). Although I haven't used it much recently as am on the 5:2 diet and therefore I'm trying to avoid bread because I love it so much I could eat the whole loaf .

Looking at that website has reminded me that I have some spelt flour, and that it's time I made a spelt loaf again. I've found it to be a very nice change from my usual bread - flavoursome and satisfying - you feel you've really eaten something serious!

This website has some straightforward looking recipes:

www.homemadeloaves.co.uk/

I keep yeast in the freezer, no worries about it being out of date and you can use it straight from the freezer

Feetlebaum,

I sometimes make the bread from scratch, but I swear by Francine bread mixes. The children think the bread tastes super. She does a pain rustique and a pain de campagne

Don't use liquid milk of you are setting the timer - only when you charge the pan and then start the machine straight away.

My final thought on those wretched little holes, left by the mixing paddle...
you can always leave them on the side of your plate...

I use mine to make dough, mainly to use as a pizza base. 45 minutes in the machine and ready to gently persuade over the pizza tin, slap on some tomato puree, cheese and olives, plus anything else to hand. One of the few veggie meals that DH really enjoys.
I don't use it to make bread as would be too delicious and we would consume excessive amounts

I never thought of using ordinary milk instead of water . Will give it a go, thanks. I've only used dried milk for bread and it would be good not to bother. I should be more adventurous!

Goldengirl - my most recently bought breadmaker came with recipes that didn't use dried milk at all, so I don't think it's an essential ingredient!

With my first machine the recipes all used Vitamin C as well as the milk - that too is no longer specified.

All mine have been Panasonic models. For some reason Panasonics tell you to put the ingredients into the pan in the reverse order by comparison with the other makes - yeast first, then flour(s), sugar, fat, salt and water on top. I have no idea why, but that's what I have always done...

P.s waitrose strong flour is the best.

My god mum has the panasonic breadmaker n swears by it! We don't eat much bread in our house.....sob! But we sometimes do the 'Paul Hollywood' method. I cheat and use the dough hook on the mixer....shush....

Would it have worked without it? Mine does not have dried milk in the recipes.

Or you could have used ordinary milk in place of the dried milk and the water.

I've got a breadmaker and use it in fits and starts. I wanted to use it the other day but then remembered dried milk was needed and I'd run out. What a pain! - or rather no pain [French pronunciation ]

You can leave it for 12 hours? I can't wait 12 minutes before eating my home made bread!