If you can find a bread machine at a yard sale or thrift shop, all the better.
This is a recipe I made this weekend that turned out really good. The crust was very chewy. We ate it right out of the oven.... some with butter.... some with jelly. I used regular yeast because I didn't have any bread machine yeast and it didn't make any difference that I could tell.
(You may need to click on the recipe to make it bigger:o)
There are usually some good Bread Machine Cookbooks at the library. This recipe came from a Betty Crocker's Bread Machine Cookbook that I borrowed from the library.
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6 comments:
My bread machine died and I haven't gotten around to replacing it. I never thought about starting in the machine and ending in the oven. But one time, the power went out, and I thought the bread was lost. It was already at the baking stage. So I just took the pan out of the machine and stuck it in the oven, and it worked fine. If I ever do get another machine, I'll have to use it for more than regular loaves of bread! (Our favorite is a Hawaiian bread made with pineapple juice. Mmmm!)
My bread machine also died...how sad. I loved it. I too would use it mainly for the dough making and then bake in the oeven. I am hoping once we are in our home (we are building right now and living with someone else) I will get another one. They are a real time saver.
That's how I use my bread machine too... I use it to make the dough through the first rising, and then I do the shaping and bake in the oven. My kitchen tip for this week is about making teddy bears for the children, and I always let the bread machine make this dough for me.
I just got my very first bread machine a few weeks ago, through Freecycle. I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to try it for free, and if we didn't like the bread it made, no harm done. I'm finding that I love using it for the dough to make rolls and pizza dough. I am just tickled to death to have it do all the work for me.
It's an old machine, so the only settings it has are dough and bread - no crust settings or anything like that, although it does have a delay timer for the bread cycle. We don't like the crust on the bread; it's too hard. I do like it for having hot bread for Sunday dinner when we walk in the door.
I have found that bread flour does make a difference, but I use the same yeast I've always used and it seems to be turning out fine.
I also use my bread machine like this. I've been using it for almost 15 years! I find bread flour is better to use, but normal flour is fine too as long as I put bread improver in it.
Some people would say it is a waste to use it only for dough, but I like the fact that it mixes it all up and then does that first rise perfectly for me.
Yes, I love my bread machine!
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Joy
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