Quick, lost my breadmaker manual with the recipes in

[Brangelina]

and now need a recipe for crusty white or French style bread. It's super-urgent, I need to have this ready for dinner tonight. Anyone out there? I've looked on the internet and found only American sites with cup measurements, which I don't understand and can't be doing with.

And while you're all there, any nice recipes for multigrain bread too, or am I pushing it ?

TIA!

I lost teh recipe book for mine and just googled teh manufacturer and asked them to replace it - tehy e-mailed it by return!

How do I translate the Delia recipe to a breadmaker? Sorry for being thick but I'm a total novice when it comes to bread.

Thanks Haggis, I'll do that. I did try to see if they had the same recipes on their website but it's a poncey Italian make and they obviously couldn't be bothered. I must find it soon though, I only know one programme and don't want to be condemned to making the same bread forever.

What is your machine? What size loaf do you want?

also how long is the programme? A recipe for another machine might work if it's got roughly the same time to rise etc.

Ariete and a 750g. loaf (I think). Not fussed about the size really, I just want decent bread (wails).

I think the programme's about 3hrs 30 mins

Does this help at all?

It has recipes for different machines - not sure if yours specifically is there though....

The basic French recipe for my Panasonic is:

1 tsp yeast
400g strong white flour
15g butter
1 tsp salt
300ml water

The size would be the same.
However this is for a 6 hour programme so it may not rise very well in the time - you might want to just do it on the 'dough' programme and then you can rise/bake as long as you like.

HTH.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!! Thank you so much both of you! We shall have crusty bread with dinner after all.