my breadmaker is broken.... can anyone tell me how to make bread the old fashioned way?

[DoctorFrankenSquonk]

Sure this has been done before, but I haven't got time to trawl through previous threads

Please can someone give me an idiot's guide to making bread without the aid of a machine?

thank you

Saint Delia to the rescue

phew! wabbit to the wescue

thanks

Little tip, I make mine in the evening (don't have a breadmaker) and leave it to prove in the fridge overnight. Bake it in the morning.

In the fridge, really? Airing cupboard for me.

Ah see rabbit, we have combi boiler (smug in combi boiler heaven emoticon). Would worry it would over prove in our kitchen.

Good point. I have nearly covered all the towels in dough in the past

Lol!!

can I use the bread tin from the machine? Or should I use a cake tin?

Use anything you like (as long as it's ovenproof). Sometimes I use a loaf tin, sometimes I shape it and just bung it on a tray and I have used a cake tin before now.

thank you.

Will do as you say and do it tonight then bake tomorrow.

Will let you know how it turns out

I just shape it, and you can get all funky with plaiting bits

See, the plaited ones always taste better to my mind
Take the dough out of fridge as soon as you get up, so it can come to room temp before you put it in. I leave it about 40 mins and then shove it in.
Save me a (thickly) buttered slice.