Home made yeast bread

molliesassy · 31-01-2008 3:59pm #1

I made a new year's resolution to stop buying shop bread and make my own. I make lovely white yeast bread in my breadmaker - I just mix and prove it and then take it out, shape it, let it rise a second time and then bake it. I discovered that if i reduce the amount of flour from 500g to 450g per 300ml water I get a better result. The family love it and I haven't thrown out any stale/mouldy bread yet this year!
I'm just wondering does anyone have any interesting recipes I can try for a bit of variety? I would love to make french baguette bread but it hasnt worked for me - it comes out a bit heavy. Perhaps I need a different flour? Would love some suggestions....

Alun · 31-01-2008 4:05pm

I have a Panasonic breadmaker that came with a great recipe book. My favourite from there is a Tomato Foccacia ...

Yeast 3/4 tsp
Strong white flour 400g
Sugar 1tsp
Salt 1tsp
Passata 150ml
Water 120ml
Green pitted olives, halved 50g
Sundried tomatoes, chopped 50g

My Panasonic has a little 'raisin/nut' dispenser which releases the olives at the right time, but if you don't have that, pop them in after the first mixing rather than put them in straight away.

As far as 'normal' breads go, most of the recipes in the book say 400g flour / 280ml water for white breads and 400g flour / 300ml water for wholemeal breads. For larger loaves it's 500g/350ml and 500g/360ml respectively .. works fine for me.

molliesassy · 31-01-2008 9:22pm

That sounds interesting. I would never have thought of putting passata into bread. Can I ask what yeast do you use? and also, do you bake the bread in the machine, or do you shape it to bake in the oven?

Alun · 31-01-2008 9:29pm

It works very well ... it is sweet by itself which is why there's less sugar in this recipe than a normal white bread recipe ... 1tsp as opposed to 1tbsp.

I use McDougals Fast Action Bread Yeast from the supermarket.

Usually I just let it cook in the breadmaker to be honest. Mine produces fairly 'normal' shaped loaves, unlike some which produce odd-shaped 'tall' loaves, so that's not really a problem.

molliesassy · 31-01-2008 9:34pm

Thanks for that! I will try it at the weekend but without the olives as no-one in my family likes them :mad:

Minder · 01-02-2008 2:30pm

Alun · 01-02-2008 2:33pm

molliesassy wrote: »

Thanks for that! I will try it at the weekend but without the olives as no-one in my family likes them :mad:

Philistines! I've also put fennel seeds in with it on occasion which is quite nice.

ambman · 01-02-2008 5:49pm

Here is a good recipe for baps

500g storng flour
20g yeast
10g salt
285g water
35g fat
15g sugar
15g milk powder

scale at 100g pieces round them up and cover and let them rest for 10 mins.
then roll out flat and dust them with some flour and bake at 220c for 10-15 mins

Enjoy

Home made yeast bread

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