Originally posted by: sinse7en
This seems to be a popular thread.. what's the deal with this bread? What is the famous stuff it's like? pm me if you need to..
Thanks!
Next time, just make the bread normally and break out the suds while the bread is still warm.Originally posted by: KKCC
F. Y. I.
Replacing the water with beer works just fine. Not really any change in flavor, but that was with light beer. Next time we'll try it with a dark beer.
Originally posted by: VaG
I'm glad it makes great toast because I just made toast straight out of the breadmaker.
LOL holly sh*t that comment about the 50lb bag put a huge grin on my face. A few summers back me and some buddies ended up getting a tub of ice-cream the 5 gallon bucket that ice cream makers deliver to ice cream shops or what not. It was insane and you couldn't put a dent in it.Originally posted by: ttown
Now -- I better like this bread-maker thing, because I've got a 50lb bag of high-gluten flour (the only size of the high-gluten flour) in my kitchen waiting for me to get busy. It was about $9.50, brand was Pendalton.
Originally posted by: RideFree
Originally posted by: MastaTam
Can this bread really be called "whole wheat" even though it's 3/4 white flour?
I call this my whole-wheat-light bread recipe.
Sorry, but now you'll be put on a knead-to-know basis.
ttown,Originally posted by: ttown
For those searching for "high gluten" flour -- I finally found it at "Cash & Carry".
Cash & Carry is like a really small Costco -- without the membership fees. They carry mostly food and food-related supplies (paper cups, woks, napkins, trash bags, cutting boards, etc). I don't know how common this store is -- but I know of 2 in Tacoma WA.
Wildly varying degrees of hot-ness in their prices of one product vs. the next, though.
Now -- I better like this bread-maker thing, because I've got a 50lb bag of high-gluten flour (the only size of the high-gluten flour) in my kitchen waiting for me to get busy. It was about $9.50, brand was Pendalton.
Would still like to find more French bread recipes... post 'em if you got em.
Originally posted by: scdill
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Sorry, but now you'll be put on a knead-to-know basis.
Originally posted by: RideFree
Originally posted by: bradley
...Instead of using expensive bread flour -- which many bread machines require -- you can instead use the virtual equivalent: all-purpose flour ...Another tip is to add a scant amount of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) to your dough. It will help preserve the bread a little bit longer than normal.
A lot of artisan bakers would scoff at both of these suggestions; but then, they probably don't appreciate bread machines much either.
1. Artisan breads nearly always contain gluten. It makes proofing easier at the bakery level - at least for the breads with a higher ratio of whole wheat.
2. My OP calls for "all-purpose" flour as my recipe does not "knead" "bread" flour.
3. In 12-15 years of breadmaker/baking this exact recipe, we've only discarded 2-3 slices of bread due to mold. (However, the dog offered to "dispose" of them for us.)
Originally posted by: scdill
Originally posted by: KKCC
Amazon has a bread maker in their Friday sale:
Friday sale
Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker for $89 (seems high to me, but we have had our bread maker for about 10 years) With the A9 discount you can bring this down a bit.
With this recipe can afford to make great bread.
Thanks OP.
Walmart.com has the Breadman Ultimate for $60. The machine has some good reviews. On the plus side it appears to have a program cycle, while on the negative side it has an odd shaped pan.
Oh, we got Costco's (but I'm not a member -- since I don't buy enough to justify the fees).... Just posting an alternative source for bulk breadmaking supplies vs. overpriced grocery stores. The "Cash & Carry" buildings are in odd locations (imo) in Tacoma -- and are pretty unimpressive/uninviting looking on the outside, so I imagine most people have never been in one.Originally posted by: RideFree
ttown,Originally posted by: ttown
For those searching for "high gluten" flour -- I finally found it at "Cash & Carry".
Cash & Carry is like a really small Costco -- without the membership fees. They carry mostly food and food-related supplies (paper cups, woks, napkins, trash bags, cutting boards, etc). I don't know how common this store is -- but I know of 2 in Tacoma WA.
Wildly varying degrees of hot-ness in their prices of one product vs. the next, though.
Now -- I better like this bread-maker thing, because I've got a 50lb bag of high-gluten flour (the only size of the high-gluten flour) in my kitchen waiting for me to get busy. It was about $9.50, brand was Pendalton.
Would still like to find more French bread recipes... post 'em if you got em.
You mean they don't have a Costco in Tac? 50lbs. = $7.xx
Let's see...$2 too much for a 50 lb. sack...roughly 38 loaves...hmmm
Holy smoke! You've just run the price of a loaf up by, a whole nickel!
:Q:Q:Q
Get ready for the "Big Oh!"Originally posted by: ttown
I expect to make my first bread tomorrow -- so I'll report back how it goes.
Originally posted by: JoeBaD
No offense to OP but my wife made this bread according to directions.
We didn't think much of it.
Sorry.