Today, for the first time in my life, I made and baked a loaf of bread*. And very good it was too, even if I say so myself.

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9 Responses to “Baker”

1. graybo says:
   December 12th, 2004 at 8:34 pm

   Hmm. It seems that I’m not being notified when a comment is posted here. Why? Must check my spam control settings.

2. graybo says:
   December 13th, 2004 at 11:30 am

   Just testing…

3. graybo says:
   December 13th, 2004 at 11:40 am

   Nope – still seems to be broken. Bum.

4. graybo says:
   December 13th, 2004 at 12:04 pm

   Trying again…

5. Dave says:
   December 13th, 2004 at 10:22 pm

   Well, it’s nothing to do with WordPress, but the breadmaker…

   Did you use the recipie suggestions that came with the machine?
   I found those that came with mine were a little lame, but a little playing about gives a really nice loaf…

6. graybo says:
   December 14th, 2004 at 8:17 am

   So far, I’ve used two recipes from the booklet that came with the machine – a granary loaf that was pretty good and an olive loaf that was excellent. I think that the granary loaf may have been a bit heavier than it should have been because I was not sufficiently accurate in measuring the water – I was more careful with the olive bread.
   There are loads of recipes that we want to try, but I can see that there is plenty of scope to tweak them and come up with some interesting variations.

7. Dave says:
   December 14th, 2004 at 9:19 pm

   You can bake fruit bread in a breadmaker, though I don’t have a recipie for it.

   The smell of fruit bread baking is probably much better that the finished taste

8. graybo says:
   December 14th, 2004 at 11:01 pm

   I’ve got a couple of recipes for fruit-based things – a fruit loaf and a fruity cake. Not tried either.

   SPICY FRUIT LOAF:
   1 tsp yeast
   500g strong white flour
   1 tbsp sugar
   25g butter
   1.5 tbsp milk powder
   1.5 tsp salt
   350ml water
   2.5 tsp cinnamon
   100g mixed dried fruit

   Mix the fruit and cinnamon and put in the raisin dispenser (assuming you have one) and do on the 4hr setting.

   FRUITY CAKE:
   350g mixed dried fruit
   50g chopped dates
   50g walnuts
   100g chopped glace cherries
   300ml water
   75g butter
   3 medium eggs – beaten
   250g plain flour
   5ml bicarbonate of soda

   1 – put fruit, dates, walnuts, cherries, water and butter in a pan. Heat until fat melted and liquid is hot.
   2 – allow to cool sloghtly. add eggs, flour and soda. Mix.
   3 – line the bread maker pan (minus kneading blade) with baking parchment and put the mixture in.
   4 – select BAKE ONLY for 55 mins.
   5 – after cooking, test with a skewer. If sticky, bake for another 5 minutes. If still slightly sticky, it will cook whilst standing.
   6 – remove the pan from the machine. Leave in the pan for 5-10 mins before removing.

9. Dave says:
   December 16th, 2004 at 9:40 pm

   yum, will give it a try!