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Daddles
8th June 2005, 12:03 AM
My latest loaf is about fifteen minutes away from that magic beep. Already, the house reeks of fresh bread. The last loaf lasted ... one lunchtime - extra thick doorstops for the lad, a sandwich for the lass, two extra thick sandwiches for me, plus bread and butter for us all. I seem to remember we all felt a tad overly stuffed, but it was worth it. :D

Fresh bread rates up there with good whisky ... but I don't expect the kids to appreciate that just yet :eek:

Cheers
Richard

Cliff Rogers
8th June 2005, 12:10 AM
Warning.... the bread may seem light BUT the stuff you stick on it before you stick it in your face will make you heavy. :)

scooter
8th June 2005, 12:45 AM
Pinched off a loaf earlier Richard but I don't think that's what you're talking about :)

We (self, bride & kids) love the home made bread, we got a Palsonic model that wasn't being used by the inlaws, and it works a beauty.

Laucke Crusty White is a nice flavour mix.


Cheers..............Sean, slice of heaven

Gingermick
8th June 2005, 07:50 AM
You will find that it will taste even better if you throw out the bread machine and do it all by hand.

silentC
8th June 2005, 08:50 AM
Yeah, we've got one of them in the cupboard somewhere. Somehow it just seems easier to buy a loaf of the ready-made stuff while you're at the supermarket buying the bread mix and other paraphenalia.

Now, if we grew our own wheat and yeast, that would be different. ;)

craigb
8th June 2005, 10:13 AM
You will find that it will taste even better if you throw out the bread machine and do it all by hand.

A man after my own heart :)

Craig (amateur baker ;) )

Daddles
8th June 2005, 11:08 AM
My little sister has been lined up for awhile to teach me bread making - it's finding time that's the problem ... and the dreadful oven in this place (I HATE renting). I will get there, but there is a manic simplicity to tossing everything into the machine and hitting the 'start' button ... after three failed attempts to select the right cycle (grrrr grumble snarl spit).

Be warned though, if you were to share your method I might just be tempted to give it a go ;)

Cheers
Richard

silentC
8th June 2005, 11:13 AM
if you were to share your method I might just be tempted to give it a go
It's simple. You walk into the bakers and say "a fresh, sliced loaf of your finest white, my good man (or woman)".

For the aroma of freshly baked bread at home, I recommend taking a slice and putting it in the microwave on high for 30 seconds.

Daddles
8th June 2005, 11:18 AM
Ahh Silent. As a man who loves his bread in all its many forms and flavours, I can not agree with you. While bakeries produce many fine loaves and while it is always a pleasure to test chomp a new find, nothing compares with home made. Home made has a different texture, different crust and that nice feeling that comes from f@#$%% it up ... errrr ... doing it yourself.

Cheers
Richard

silentC
8th June 2005, 11:24 AM
We used to get our bread delivered by Mr Granger in his Holden panel van when I was a kid. Straight out of the oven, sometimes still warm. I used to hack the end off the loaf when I got home from school and wash it down with a glass of milo. You knew it was lovingly hand made because every now and then you'd find a hair in it. Yes, the introduction of hair nets into food preparation areas was timely....

Of course, the same bakery was only a couple of years ago found guilty of negligence when some rat dirt found it's way onto some sesame seed buns. Mr Granger would turn in his grave...

Maybe I should get that machine out of the cupboard....

Zed
8th June 2005, 11:30 AM
Ahh Silent. As a man who loves his bread in all its many forms and flavours, I can not agree with you. While bakeries produce many fine loaves and while it is always a pleasure to test chomp a new find, nothing compares with home made. Home made has a different texture, different crust and that nice feeling that comes from f@#$%% it up ... errrr ... doing it yourself.

Cheers
Richard

Now now Daddles. whacking mass produced and mass mixed premix into a machine does not constitute doing it yourself. otherwise cuppa soup or lotsa nooldes could be misconstured as "doing the cooking" rather than "boiling water and pouring" - an discussion had in my house a number of times now.... :D :D

I recommend geting a starter of sourdough and making bread that way - complicated, expensive and time consuming but well worth the effort if you got the time

PAH1
8th June 2005, 11:38 AM
Zed, I do not know that sourdough is expensive, time consuming yes, but not expensive. After all you do not buy premixes which sell for 50-100% more than the flour. Godd sourdough has a taste and texture that other breads can not compete with. I make a fair bit of the bread at home and much of it by hand, bread machines have a limited capacity and I like to make more than 8 rolls when I make it.

The Jamie Oliver recipe is about as simple a starting point as you can get, 1kg flour, 600ml water, 2 tbsp oil, 2tbsp sugar, 2tbsp salt ( a bit much I think and I only use 1) and 2tsp yeast. Makes about a dozen dinner rolls.

craigb
8th June 2005, 11:43 AM
I recommend geting a starter of sourdough and making bread that way

Getting a starter of sourdough :eek:

Come come Zed you can make your own for nix. :)

Here is an excellent description of the process:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/recipe-sourdough.html

I don't make bread often enough to do sourdough myself :)

Homemade bread with store bought yeast does me.

Dean
8th June 2005, 03:22 PM
throw in some smarties or "hundreds and thousands" in the next batch. The kids will go crazy with lolly bread! :p

Trav
8th June 2005, 03:23 PM
I get the best outcome by making the dough in the breadmaker, and then cooking the loaf/rolls in the oven (or in the webber with a nice roast lamb). Comes out a treat.

Trav

himzol
8th June 2005, 08:57 PM
I should never have read this post,
I'm now more ravanous then a bug blatter beast.

Himzo

scooter
9th June 2005, 12:30 PM
Bread Dark Siders now (sigh :) )

I really think you should look at growing your own strain of yeast, cross pollinating mulitiple generations of wheat, distilling your own water, and evaporating your own salt before you have the outrageous chutzpah to challenge our reliance, nay, addiction to power tools, even in the kitchen! :D

BTW silent, was that the same Mister Granger in Are You Being Served?


Cheers..........Sean, slice short of a loaf

silentC
9th June 2005, 12:34 PM
Chutzpah is nice on a roast beef sandwich.

Different Mr Granger. This one was younger, skinnier, and less English.

;)

craigb
9th June 2005, 12:37 PM
Chutzpah is nice on a roast beef sandwich.



Wasn't that Chutzpah that you had on your Basil Fawlty the other day? :confused:

scooter
9th June 2005, 12:42 PM
Is your friend Chutzpah gay ? :D (Not that there's anything...etc...)


Cheers.........Sean (who picked chutzpah over temerity to add a little multiculturalism to the board :) )

silentC
9th June 2005, 12:42 PM
Wasn't that Chutzpah that you had on your Basil Fawlty the other day? :confused:
Could've been. It was very runny...

Iain
9th June 2005, 01:38 PM
A bit of rain and bald tyres and the topic has slid out of control into another lane........................................again :p
Bagels for me thankyou ;)

nic
9th June 2005, 04:05 PM
You will find that it will taste even better if you throw out the bread machine and do it all by hand.

Even better if you haven't wash said hands for a while !!!

Seriously though why buy mix, basic bread is:
yeast, bakers flower, water & pinch of salt !!!

If you are fancy eater, add wholemeal flour, LSA (family secret), gluten (for those who won't baloon up on it, or end up in ER).

And if you have a bit of sweet tooth make sweet bread:
like basic bread, but eggs & milk instead of water and sugar instead of salt.

Really hungry add choc chips when the machine start beeps !!

Bon appetit

Nic