Bread maker ingredients

[BroccoliSpears]

I'm excitedly hoping that the LARGE square box under the tree, addressed to me, is a breadmaker.

What ingredients do I need to make sure I have in the house, just in case I'm lucky?

Yeast - Dove's Farm v good.
White, Brown and Granary Bread Flour.
Milk Powder
Butter (if you normally use marg)
Sugar

I hope it is a breadmaker and not an iron!!

Or a nice new bin for the bathroom...

Milk powder? Really?

Thank you!

Wholemeal bread flour (I always have white and wholemeal, with the occasional Granary)
Vitamin C powder (plain, not flavoured).

Have fun with it - I hope! - and come and compare recipes.

We opened an Amazon delivery, thinking that it was our order for the LOs, and it turned out to be a new breadmaker from the ILs.

Oooh, seeds as well - poppy, linseed, sesame, sunflower - if you like loaves with a bit of extra flavour and crunch.

Yes really milk powder! It's normally by the longlife milk, or cooking ingredients.

Enjoy the waft of fresh baked bread ..... or the clang of the bathroom bin shutting!!!

Vit C powder? Tell me more, I have never used it.

We find that if we are doing a loaf on overnight timer in the winter (ie when the kitchen gets quite chilly) then a teeny weeny pinchlet of VitC powder helps the bread to rise. Otherwise it barely reaches the top of the pan. Also, if you use wholemeal flour or add a lot of seeds, they affect the gluten and reduce the rise. You can add more yeast - but then risk that the bread will overflow the pan, and in any case I don't like the taste of the yeast so don't want to add more - or add a miniscule pinchlet of VitC instead.

ours uses bread flour, oil, yeast ( i like the alison one), sugar - demar... is good, salt and luke warm water, milk powder

does take at least 3 hours to make the bread and our brown/wholemeal never rises as much as the white ( i think i will be a terrible mum)

So, things that wouldn't usually be in the house: yeast, bread flour, milk powder, plus optional vit c powder and seeds n stuff.

Thank you!

Strong Flour
Fresh Yeast from the bakery at your supermarket (free- keep in fridge).
marg-butter
Salt
water

If you havn't got a bread maker, a worktop and a pair of hands work wonders as well.
The best bread made is when you are in a temper, you just imagine that its someones face that you dont like and beat the c**p out of it.