Do I think that bread machine mixes are useful? Yes, some of them are, but the snag with all bread machine mixes is that they place limitations on your choice and do not encourage your creative talents. That may sound odd, but think about it for a while. If you depend on bread machine mixes you can only make the bread for which you can buy a bread machine mix and you can only tip the bread machine mix into the bowl and switch on the bread making machine. You are definitely not likely to alter the bread machine mix for fear that it won't work.
What is the alternative? Well, the old-fashioned cookbook, of course! Not just any old cookbook, but a special bread making machine cookbook. Bread making is a very simple, but rather tiresome process. The ingredients are ubiquitous, household items: water, flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil. You certainly have those items in your kitchen with the possible exception of the yeast, which can be bought almost anywhere at minimal cost.
And I'm sure you already know what happens when you cook following a recipe, don't you? You have already read the recipe through and you know you have everything in the cupboard, but when the recipe requires, say, sultanas, you open the cupboard door and see that you don't have any sultanas - they were currants! Oh, well you think, they'll do. You make do. You experiment. And that means that you are developing your talents and creativity. Bread making mixes cannot and will not do that for you.
A good bread making machine recipe book will have something over 100 recipes coming from a number of different countries and you will become really enthusiastic about experimenting with the various ones. Have you ever tasted Welsh bread - Bara Brith? Or English muffin bread? Jalapeno bread or banana bread? Onion bread is lovely too, but one of my all time favourites is Brazil Nut Bread - absolutely delicious.
The point is that you may not find recipes for all these breads in one place, but if you have a reference point, like a bread recipe cookbook, you can start off by using tried and tested gourmet bread recipes and gradually concoct your own - sometimes out of necessity.
I once made a really great loaf by adding all of the leftover vegetables from my Sunday dinner. It was very tasty, however I could never quite make the same loaf again, because I did not write down the proportions of the vegetables. I could only remember that it had green beans, potatoes and sweet corn in it!
Bread machine mixes will never ever give you that, will they? And bread machine mixes are relatively expensive compared to the cost of ten pounds. I usually vary the ingredients too: honey instead of sugar, milk instead of water, olive oil or butter instead of just corn oil. Rock salt instead of sea salt or visa versa. You get the picture.
Bread machine mixes are limited and limiting. Furthermore a bread making machine is a great way to use up leftovers. I have even added meat and fruit in my gourmet bread. My principle is: if it'll go in a sandwich it'll go in the dough - like an Indian stuffed paratha or stuffed naan bread.
Save your money by not buying bread machine mixes and be creative with a bread machine recipes cookbook. - 30289
What is the alternative? Well, the old-fashioned cookbook, of course! Not just any old cookbook, but a special bread making machine cookbook. Bread making is a very simple, but rather tiresome process. The ingredients are ubiquitous, household items: water, flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil. You certainly have those items in your kitchen with the possible exception of the yeast, which can be bought almost anywhere at minimal cost.
And I'm sure you already know what happens when you cook following a recipe, don't you? You have already read the recipe through and you know you have everything in the cupboard, but when the recipe requires, say, sultanas, you open the cupboard door and see that you don't have any sultanas - they were currants! Oh, well you think, they'll do. You make do. You experiment. And that means that you are developing your talents and creativity. Bread making mixes cannot and will not do that for you.
A good bread making machine recipe book will have something over 100 recipes coming from a number of different countries and you will become really enthusiastic about experimenting with the various ones. Have you ever tasted Welsh bread - Bara Brith? Or English muffin bread? Jalapeno bread or banana bread? Onion bread is lovely too, but one of my all time favourites is Brazil Nut Bread - absolutely delicious.
The point is that you may not find recipes for all these breads in one place, but if you have a reference point, like a bread recipe cookbook, you can start off by using tried and tested gourmet bread recipes and gradually concoct your own - sometimes out of necessity.
I once made a really great loaf by adding all of the leftover vegetables from my Sunday dinner. It was very tasty, however I could never quite make the same loaf again, because I did not write down the proportions of the vegetables. I could only remember that it had green beans, potatoes and sweet corn in it!
Bread machine mixes will never ever give you that, will they? And bread machine mixes are relatively expensive compared to the cost of ten pounds. I usually vary the ingredients too: honey instead of sugar, milk instead of water, olive oil or butter instead of just corn oil. Rock salt instead of sea salt or visa versa. You get the picture.
Bread machine mixes are limited and limiting. Furthermore a bread making machine is a great way to use up leftovers. I have even added meat and fruit in my gourmet bread. My principle is: if it'll go in a sandwich it'll go in the dough - like an Indian stuffed paratha or stuffed naan bread.
Save your money by not buying bread machine mixes and be creative with a bread machine recipes cookbook. - 30289
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