BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 07:11 PM

GNU - I dug out my old DAK Breadmaker recipe book which is the best Bread-Machine recipe book ever but you can't get them anymore. I treasure my copy!

Here's a really yummy bread recipe - DAK machines made 3 1/2 pound loaves. To make in a smaller machine, I have found that you should halve all the ingredients except the yeast which stays the same. Almost all DAK machine recipes call for 1 packet of yeast so just stick with that no matter what you do to the recipe.

California Dip Bread - for a 3 1/2 pond loaf
Cut recipe in half for 1 1/2 to 2 pound machine or use my substitutes
from the DAK recipe booklet - It's a bread that is supposed to approximate the taste of Onion Dip!

Ingredients

1 packet of yeast - (I use the whole packet)
3 1/2 cups of flour (for my machine I use 2 cups)
1/4 Teaspoon baking Soda (I use s scant 1/4 teaspoon)
1 Egg or 1/4 cup egg substitute (I use 1/8 cup egg beaters type stuff)
3/4 cup Cottage cheese (I use 1/2 cup pureed fat-free cottage cheese)
3/4 cup Sour Cream (I use 1/2 cup Low-fat Sour Cream not nonfat)
3 tablespoons Sugar (I use 2 tablespoons castor sugar)
1 1/2 Tablespoons butter at room temp (I use 1 Tablespoon)
1/4 cup water room temp (I use 1/8 cup)
1 envelope of Lipton's (Dry) Onion Soup Mix - (I keep the whole enevlope)


Add the first 4 ingredients in order listed. Slightly warm up the next 6 ingredients and pour in the pan. Select for White Bread Cycle and push Start.

Now, I find that mixing the last six ingredients together in a Microwave safe bowl and then heating them up to body temperature but no higher works well. So they should feel just a little warm if you stick your finger in them. Then I pour them in on top of the dry ingredients. On my machine I use White bread cycle and select DARK as the color option because mine undercooks a bit. if yours is OK, just use what you would normally use for a color setting.

This recipe is worth fiddling with to get the perfect proportions for your machine. it smells amazing while baking and makes a great bread for serving with dinner, any kind of meat or stew.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: peregrina
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:36 PM

Has anyone figured out a way to make sourdough in the bread machine? If so, I'd love to have the recipe.

(I realize it would possibly involve starting the dough and removing it, or turning off the machine for an extended time, before the actual baking.)

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:33 PM

Ours is a Panasonic SD253 and it unfailingly makes excellent organic wholemeal loaves at a fraction of shop prices. They're much better too. You can keep the saltiness down for a start. It takes three minutes to dump all the ingredients in then you just leave it to it.    To us it's the best thing since, er....

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:29 PM

I have a recipe for Chocolate Rye Bread in the bread machine - i know it sounds yucky but it isn't and it's not sweet either. I'll go look for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Janie
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:26 PM

Gnu,

I have a scrumptious recipe for Molasses bread that I'll dig out and pm to you. Be warned. It was lovely with the Z machine, but heavy as a rock with the Breadman - whether or not I baked it in the machine or in the oven.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:11 PM

With my breadmaker I use the fast action dried yeast and that is the last ingredient to go in (apart from seeds and the like), but it goes in before starting the breadmaker. The order of putting in the ingredients is very important - with the recipes I have, the ingredients go in in the order they are given.

Mine doesn't have any dispensers but a bell rings when seeds are to be added and I just drop them in.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:10 PM

1.5 and 2 pound loaves. Buns. Doughs. Jams.

There are a million recipes on the net. Just wondered if anyone had any "special" recipes.

I have friends who swear by them, so I'll give it a whirl. But, I haven't thrown out my old pans yet. Hehehe.... I've had the ABM since Christmas and this is the first time I have tried to use it.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Janie
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:06 PM

Not really Bert. There is no fun at all in not making bread, and it is a rare occasion that many of us have the time and the schedule that permits us to do the whole process by hand. I did prefer to shape the dough, do the second proofing and bake it in the oven when I had time. During the week, though, the whole family loved waking up to the smell of hot, fresh bread, knowing a thick slice with butter or cheese would appear in front of them as soon as they were out of the shower.

Notice the past tense. I haven't had a bread machine in two years. I have managed to bake bread only two times in that two years.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:03 PM

Is the paddle bent or not inserted correctly? Any grinding or abnormal noise? What seems to cause the vibration?
If you can't diagnose, see warranty.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Janie
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:58 PM

I've had a Zojirushi and a Breadman. Neither ever walked.

FWIW, I liked the Zojirushi much better. It did a better job kneading and proofing the dough, and handled heavy rye and whole wheat doughs better than did the Breadman. Also, the Breadman used a yeast dispenser that added the yeast after the batter was mixed, instead of with the liquids as with a conventional recipe. The texture and rise of the Breadman produced breads was never quite satisfactory, and I have wondered if that was one reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:49 PM

And when it comes to making jam and bread, we're talking completely different machines. Mine only makes dough. I can make that dough into lots of different things. No printer or fax on this model.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Bert
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:49 PM

Aaaargh! Bread machines take all the fun out of breadmaking.

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:48 PM

Be sure the feet are clean, and move it way back from the edge. They do sometime "walk."

What is the weight capacity of the loaves your machine can make? I have a Wellbuilt (sold by DAK years ago) that makes a three pound loaf, but many bread machines make smaller loaves.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:46 PM

I have a Russell Hobbs Breadman Pro and love it. It does not move.

I have made a variety of breads in it and it also has a metal insert that can be used to make delicious bread rolls.

I have made pizza dough (if you use bread flour for this you get a base which is more like a deep pan pizza and if you use plain flour you can get really thin pizzas).

I have also made jam in mine but ruined a pan by using jam sugar (the crystals scratched the non-stick surface). So I just use granulated sugar now.

I only have the recipes which came with the breadmaker and a book of recipes from a previous breadmaker I had which cost twice as much but produced bread which looked a bit anaemic to me. I gave that to another family member and they are quite happy with it.

You may have got a book of recipes with yours but if there is any particular thing you wish to try, and don't have a recipe for, I'll look through my recipes to see if I have it.

Subject: BS: Automatic Bread Machine (Maker)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:32 PM

So, I finally tried my Black & Decker ABM. Used a recipe from an old friend. Oatmeal brown bread. Is it suppose to work it's way off the countertop and dangle by the cord?

Actually, the phone rang and on my way to answer it, I saw the ABM almost off the counter. If I hadn't, I assume it would have dangled.

Recipes?