breadmaker

[roosterroo]

I have a lovley new breadmaker, what are your favourite things to make in it. Im looking for ideas as all Ive used is a bag of ready mixed stuff for wholemeal.

I am thinking pizza dough but not sure where to start - the receipe book that it came with is a bit naff!

cant help you we have one too but not used ours ,its collecting dust on top of the cupbord

I make pizza dough, brioche dough and bread dough a lot. I don't actually use my machine for baking as I don't like the shape!

Pizza dough
300 g wholewheat flour
200g white bread flour
6 g dried yeast
10 g salt
4 good glugs of olive oil
300 ml water

Brioche dough
I buy a brioche mix.... But I have made hot cross buns dough in it too. Think I adpated a Nigella recipe

Bread dough
I do all sorts of bread doughs - wholewheat, 9 cereales, white etc and just follow the instructions on the packet.

Enjoy your machine. They're fab.

I tend to make loaves with varying combinations of seeds!! Sunflower, pine-nut kernels, sesame, pumpkin. Caraway Seed Bread is a personal favourite... a basic wholemeal mix with a tablespoon of seeds gives it an excellent flavour.

For a medium-sized loaf
-300ml water
-14oz 100% stoneground extra strong wholemeal bread flour
-1 tablespoon skimmed milk powder (adds 'fluffiness!')
-good-size knob of dairy butter
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon sugar (more if you like a darker, crisper crust)
-1 sachet Hovis easy-blend dried yeast

My recipe for pizza dough is
-8oz bread flour (white, wholemeal or a mixture),
-1 sachet of easy-blend dried yeast
-teaspoon salt
-1 egg
-teaspoon sugar
-some olive oil
-teaspoon mixed herbs
-enough water to make a soft dough

But I usually make that with the dough-hook in the Magimix rather than the bread machine.

I use half quantities of Jamie Oliver's pizza dough recipe for pizza bases - just throw the ingredients into the breadmaker, put it on the "dough" setting, and carry on as usual from the bit where he says "Now remove the dough to a flour-dusted surface..." It doesn;t reakky save any time but it's less of a faff than doing it by hand, imo.

I often make ciabatta dough in mine too, which is lovely.

As for actually baking bread in the breadoven, my lot tend to prefer the bread you get from using the French Bread setting/instructions. I tend to use less sugar though as like all the recipes in the booklet, it's too sweet otherwise imo.

I use mine mostly for making dough too and then make rolls to bake in the oven. They are super - Wrights premium white makes wonderful bread rolls. Just need to sort out the sourdough now!

Oh - Lidl breadmaking flour is good, for everyday loaves if you're trying to save a few pennies. 1kg is 80-something pence. Otherwise the premium ones are lovely.

last time I made pizza I used Dove's Farm pasta flour which they sell in Morrison's (and elsewhere I should think) and it turned out brilliantly.