How to fit bread making in

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I’d really like to make my own bed regularly
rather than relying on shop bought but all the rising seems to take so long! If you do this, how do you work it into your schedule? And any simple every day recipes?

This sourdough recipe, but slightly less salt https://www.theclevercarrot.com/2014/01/sourdough-bread-a-beginners-guide/

I make it in the evening (about 5-10 minutes, including feeding the starter - there's a starter recipe on their website too - it took around 2 weeks of attention to get it started), leave it overnight in a large bowl covered in cling film, reshape in the morning (about 60 seconds), leave another hour, then bake. I don't have a special bread tin, I line my enamel meat roasting tin with baking parchment/greaseproof. Leave an hour after baking before slicing. I make a loaf on the weekend, and one on my Wednesday work from home day 😋

I keep my bread maker in the utility room and use it mainly as a dough maker, it kneads and rises the dough in hour and a half so can do other stuff without watching it during that time then I take it out and shape into rolls or loaf or whatever. Another half hour or so in warm steamy microwave then and bake, I seldom bake in it but it does do loaves ok but better rise done in over and obviously if you want to do rolls etc then you need to bake in oven.

I actually have two breadmakers so usually have both on at same time and freeze whatever isn't being used next day or two so that I really only bake about once a week.

If you are at home for 3 hours in the evening it's easy to fit in. You need to spend 8 minutes of that time kneading the dough, maybe another 10 mins doing a bit of shaping and heating up the oven. Other than that it just sits there doing its thing.

I would make some loaves on some time off, once you know what's involved you will soon be able to fit it around your normal routine

Panasonic make the best breadmakers. We put ours in the cupboard in between uses.

Get a Panasonic one and store it away when not in use. I do that with the bread maker,slow cooker and air fryer.

I use this bread recipe..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basic_white_bread_18916

But use half malted seed flour abd half white rather than full white. And sprinkle sunflower seeds on top before baking.

Measure ingredients and put them in the mixer with the dough hook to knead until smooth. Approx 15 minutes. I do other kitchen jobs whilst that is ongoing. Prove in a big bowl for approx 1 hour. A bit of kneading and put in loaf tin. Leave for around another hour. Bake for 40 mins. It doesn't require much hands on effort so is easily done in an evening amongst other stuff like cooking dinner/bathing children etc, just pop a timer on your phone so you remember to move it to the next step following each prove.