Bread makers & recipes?

nesser1981

nesser1981

Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
I want to start making bread & would like to get a bread maker. Do you have suggestions & recipes/cookbooks to recommend?

I think this will help w/ saving grocery money. We love fresh bread.
 
I have a really old bread maker, so I wouldn't recommend mine and I don't know enough about anything new to recommend those, but I LOVE this website for a huge variety of breads. I've actually started just not getting out my bread maker and making bread with my kitchenaid mixer and the dough hook instead. It's a little more time-consuming, but it does most of the work :)

http://www.bread-machineecipes.com/

My kids especially love the honey buttermilk bread.
 
I bake a loaf of bread every week, but just as a treat, not to replace store bought bread. My Toastmaster bread machine was a wedding present 14 years ago, and I need a new one. There's a problem with the heating element, so for the past year or so I've only used it for mixing and rising the dough and then shaped it myself and baked it in the oven. I'll be watching to see if anyone has any machine or recipe recommendations.
 
So, we're trying the same thing! I've been trying this one (but it calls for whole wheat)... http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/20...whole-wheat-sandwich-bread-for-bread-machine/

I haven't figured it out though... the bread always sinks in. I might try just mixing the dough in the bread machine and baking it in the oven... and it would also be a more "normal" loaf. I'm hoping to try it a few times more before school so the girls can use it for sandwiches.

I have to say, if you haven't bought I bread machine yet, try craigslist! I bought mine off there and it works perfectly and saved me at least $50.

If I find a recipe I have more success with, I'll send it your way. :) But I think it's user error--or needs more or less of some ingredient.

I did make a cinnamon swirl bread with it and it was delicious! (baked in the oven)
 
Well, I used to make bread. I had a Nutrimill and bought my grains from Bobs Red Mill. I didn't use a bread machine, just mixed in my bosch and then put it into bread pans. The unthinkable happened and our oven died, and at the time I needed cash so had to sell the Nutrimill :( I want to buy another so bad now that we have moved and have a nice new oven.

Are you looking for recipes using fresh milled flour or store bought?
 
Oh, kelley reminded me... if I had a mixer, I wouldn't have bought a bread machine. But I don't... and it was much cheaper!
 
I never really had luck with my bread machine, the end result was usually inedible bricks. I'm sure it had more to do with me than the bread machine, though. I found a cookbook with recipes that I did have success with - and the bread is super easy to make. You mix up the dough, then put it in the fridge for 8 hours (you can leave it in the fridge for up to 5 days). Depending upon the bread, you either let it rise when it comes out of the fridge, or you just shape it and bake. The book has recipes for sandwich bread, potato rolls, coffee cake, bagels, english muffins, crackers, and a few others. I haven't used it in a while, though, because I've been cooking with whole wheat flour and haven't' tried to adapt the recipes yet. The recipes mostly call for bread or all-purpose flour.

The book is $5 for the Kindle, so it's a really inexpensive way to get into baking fresh bread without needing a mixer or bread machine.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...vpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&ref=pd_sl_7j2fxnlweu_e
 
I'll be watching this thread because we have a bread machine but haven't been too successful in making bread that everyone wants to eat for sandwiches. Now, for bread to just have as a treat with dinner or a snack - yes. But the size of the loaf makes it hard to make sandwiches and all the recipes/box mixes I've tried end up coming out like hard bricks.

I used to make french baguettes from scratch every weekend in my KitchenAid mixer with my oldest (then 2-3 yo). It was a fun way to teach her how to cook and it wasn't that hard once I got the hang of it.

I think I like the idea of mixing the bread in the machine and then putting the dough in a real loaf pan. If only I could figure out how to make cuban bread - it seems that is the only kind of bread everyone in this house will eat.
 
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