Your best breadmaker recipes please

[abigboydidit]

After being stunned at the salt content of shop bought bread (I think I am the only person who never realised..) I have inherited a bread maker & am itching to get started but the person who gave it to me has lost the leaflet with the recipes in. Have had a quick Google and was a bit overwhelmed, plus I always prefer going with something I know is tried and tested. It's really for DD & DS (7 months and 2.5 years) so am happy for just plain old white or anything more fancy just so long as it's foolproof

Thanks in advance.

I use HFW magic bread dough recipe.

250g strong bread flour
250g plain flour
1 tsp instant yeasy
1.5 tsp salt
1tbsp oil (I use sunflower or olive)

Then I play around with adding seeds - poppy seeds are lovely and if you add them to the dough they don't fall off like they do on shop bought seeded bread!

And substituting wholemeal or granary flour - you need to keep it at least 50% white though or it will be like rock.

I know what you mean about the salt (and sugar) content of bought bread, but you do need to use some salt. You might be able to reduce it a little bit, but as a general rule I use very little salt in cooking - this bread with only 1tsp salt was not good!

Thank you. I actually weighed a tsp of salt and you could practically heap it in and still end up with less than 0.4/0.5g per slice DD is a spoon refuser so had been getting a lot of bread until a friend pointed it out. Thanks for the recipe. I think I actually even have all the ingredients in so will give it a bash after breakfast.

Hmm.. It's asking me what size loaf that makes?

Sorry - just noticed no water either? Is that right? Apologies. Am clueless!

500g strong white Flour
1tsp Doves Farm yeast
1tsp sea salt
25ml olive oil
350ml water

Makes a large loaf. Add in order according to your machine's instructions.

Which bread machine is it?

Go by the amount of flour as to which size loaf

Thanks. It's a Morphy Richards one.

Sorry, yes 325ml water. I press the large button!

Choose the programme which takes the longest time. Quick loaves are absolutely horrid things.

Great. Will try tomorrow morning. Assuming the dry ingredients will be fine left till then. There is a timer function thingy but not sure about that so will put it on at whatever ungodly hour DS decides to wake us

We love a 5 seed loaf, it's a basic white or brown bread recipe with 2 tablespoons each of pumpkin, sunflower, seasame, poppy & linseed added.

Hmmm. Tasted okay but sunk completely in the middle. Clearly I need more practice

You need a Panasonic breadmaker really...they make beautiful bread! I haven't bought any bread for years...