Do you use bread machine mixes when you want to make yeast bread in your automatic bread-making machine? If so, why? Is it because you think it's simpler? It is so easy to make gourmet bread quickly from easy bread recipes and so much more variable too. If you use bread machine mixes you are limited to the bread machine mixes there are in the stores " no matter how many of them there are there.
On the other hand, a good bread machine recipe book is infinitely more flexible than bread machine mixes. A good bread machine cookbook might give you 150 or so recipes originating from several countries, but it will also inspire you to adapt those recipes, encouraging you to be creative and invent your own style of bread.
Bread machine mixes are really quite restricting and you have no control over what goes into the bread machine mix either: preservatives, colouring, MSG, salt or who knows what. Yes, it says on the label, but you cant take them out, if you limit yourself to bread machine mixes.
Making bread is really quite easy. Or to put it correctly, the ingredients to making bread are really quite simple. To bake a very basic loaf of bread, you only need: flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt and fat or oil. The difficult part about making bread is the mixing. It can take four hours to mix the bread making ingredients together; to wait for it to rise; to knead it; wait for it to prove; knead it again and bake it.
So, if you have a bread making machine you can automate the hard bread mixing, proving, kneading cycle and if you have a bread-making cookbook you will be provided with recipes to guide and inspire you.
What could be easier? You look in the bread-making machine cookbook for an appetizing recipe; you put the everyday ingredients into the bread mixing bowl of the bread machine and you put the yeast into a time-release box on top of the bread machine; set the timer and go about your daily life or go to sleep!
The bread making machine will stir the ingredients and check the timer. My bread-making machine has a sixteen-hour timer. That means that, if you want your gourmet, yeast bread ready for 8:30 AM, the bread-making machine will stir the flour, water, salt oil and sugar at once, add the yeast at say, 5 AM, knead, prove and bake the bread and ring a bell at 8:30 to announce that your gourmet food is waiting for you.
But you won't need the alarm to tell you that. The aroma of freshly baked bread will [permeate|fill your house and you will be very much cognizant of the fact that your bread making machine is just about ready to deliver one of the best loaves of bread you've ever had in your life. And you will never look for bread machine mixes again. You'll be overflowing with your own bread machine mixes in no time at all and you'll be giving bread away as gifts so that you can try out your very own latest bread machine mix recipe.
Bread machine mixes: why bother with them? - 30289
On the other hand, a good bread machine recipe book is infinitely more flexible than bread machine mixes. A good bread machine cookbook might give you 150 or so recipes originating from several countries, but it will also inspire you to adapt those recipes, encouraging you to be creative and invent your own style of bread.
Bread machine mixes are really quite restricting and you have no control over what goes into the bread machine mix either: preservatives, colouring, MSG, salt or who knows what. Yes, it says on the label, but you cant take them out, if you limit yourself to bread machine mixes.
Making bread is really quite easy. Or to put it correctly, the ingredients to making bread are really quite simple. To bake a very basic loaf of bread, you only need: flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt and fat or oil. The difficult part about making bread is the mixing. It can take four hours to mix the bread making ingredients together; to wait for it to rise; to knead it; wait for it to prove; knead it again and bake it.
So, if you have a bread making machine you can automate the hard bread mixing, proving, kneading cycle and if you have a bread-making cookbook you will be provided with recipes to guide and inspire you.
What could be easier? You look in the bread-making machine cookbook for an appetizing recipe; you put the everyday ingredients into the bread mixing bowl of the bread machine and you put the yeast into a time-release box on top of the bread machine; set the timer and go about your daily life or go to sleep!
The bread making machine will stir the ingredients and check the timer. My bread-making machine has a sixteen-hour timer. That means that, if you want your gourmet, yeast bread ready for 8:30 AM, the bread-making machine will stir the flour, water, salt oil and sugar at once, add the yeast at say, 5 AM, knead, prove and bake the bread and ring a bell at 8:30 to announce that your gourmet food is waiting for you.
But you won't need the alarm to tell you that. The aroma of freshly baked bread will [permeate|fill your house and you will be very much cognizant of the fact that your bread making machine is just about ready to deliver one of the best loaves of bread you've ever had in your life. And you will never look for bread machine mixes again. You'll be overflowing with your own bread machine mixes in no time at all and you'll be giving bread away as gifts so that you can try out your very own latest bread machine mix recipe.
Bread machine mixes: why bother with them? - 30289
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