Making Your Own Bread - The Machine
I am very proud to say that I make our own bread. I say this with a smirk because although you will smell the bread freshly baking in my house a few days a week, I wouldn't be able to do it without my bread machine. I haven't conquered making bread by hand at so many levels including time, mess, and a quality bread my family enjoys. I'm just not good at it.
I do feel that I have mastered making bread in my bread machine. As far as I'm concerned I am still giving my family healthy food where I can control the ingredients and I'm saving money.
Using the bread machine is quite simple. I have only used mine (which is on the side if you are interested) so I can only speak for my machine but I'm sure they are all similar. It takes me about 15 minutes to start a loaf of bread and I don't have to do anything else for several hours or more.
Step 1 - Layer all the ingredients into the bread machine in the order given in the recipe. Just dump everything in. If you are using a delay feature you will want to make sure the water and yeast are not touching otherwise just dump it all in.
Step 2 - Adjust the settings to the size of the loaf, type, and how done you want your bread (I choose light) and press Start!
Step 3 - Once the bread is cool take it out and enjoy.
Now, who can't do that? The key is a good recipe and the right ingredients. I enjoy a light bread and whenever I have made bread it always come out like lead. I have found by adding wheat gluten to the recipe it lightens it up. The other item I use is bread flour because it has a higher gluten content than all purpose flour.
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I do feel that I have mastered making bread in my bread machine. As far as I'm concerned I am still giving my family healthy food where I can control the ingredients and I'm saving money.
Using the bread machine is quite simple. I have only used mine (which is on the side if you are interested) so I can only speak for my machine but I'm sure they are all similar. It takes me about 15 minutes to start a loaf of bread and I don't have to do anything else for several hours or more.
Step 1 - Layer all the ingredients into the bread machine in the order given in the recipe. Just dump everything in. If you are using a delay feature you will want to make sure the water and yeast are not touching otherwise just dump it all in.
Step 2 - Adjust the settings to the size of the loaf, type, and how done you want your bread (I choose light) and press Start!
Step 3 - Once the bread is cool take it out and enjoy.
Now, who can't do that? The key is a good recipe and the right ingredients. I enjoy a light bread and whenever I have made bread it always come out like lead. I have found by adding wheat gluten to the recipe it lightens it up. The other item I use is bread flour because it has a higher gluten content than all purpose flour.
Check back here for some healthy recipes.
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