Morphy Richards Breadmaker

[alemci]

I have been given one of these to try. Have made some of the recipes. They turned out reasonable but not fantastic. Most of them use sugar. I know this is to activate the yeast. Has anyone got any really good breadmaker recipes and pizza doughs.

Does anyone use this make of machine.

I have an old MR bread-maker. I rarely use sugar though. If you replace the same volume of water required, with 1 egg and milk, you get a much softer loaf. I often use the bread-maker to just mix and prove the dough and I then bake it in the oven.

I had one til recently. I agree, replacing half the water with egg and milk makes the bread much softer.

I also used to make a basic white with just water, flour, salt and yeast, it was lovely.

did you use the milk powder in bread?

I have one. I never use sugar or milk powder.

I use standard bread or pizza dough recipes from BBC Good Food/Delia Online/Hugh Fernly-watever and chuck it all in.

I can't get the seed dispenser to work though.

No, I don't use milk powder. So long as you don't put it on timer, you can just use fresh milk instead of water and milk powder.

i had an old morphy richards and i found the bread came out tough. then i saw michel roux on the great british food revival when he did bread, and the sandwich loaf recipe he made used half plain flour and half bread flour, i tried this and it came out much lighter and softer.