Hello,
if you too, are addicted to the smell of homemade bread coming from your oven and reminding you of all the good things; you must be a homebaker. I have my breadmaker for two years now and from the very start, we stopped eating bread from bakeries. Although we got bored pretty soon from the "cubic" loaf which was the only shape the machine could have produced; I started preparing the dough inside the machine and shaping it myself to be cooked in the oven.
It quickly became a habit and now whatever recipe I can adapt; is being prepared in the machine. Especially for pizza, I prepare a big batch of dough and put them in the freezer for future use. It is not the only advantage of the machine that you keep your hands clean; it also makes the first rise of the dough guaranteed!
The recipe below is the basic one which is in the leaflet of the machine. Since every manifacturer recommends different order to place the ingredients in the machine, I am not giving details about mine. The measuring cup and the spoon are standard for every machine though:
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1.5 cups water (or a mix of water+milk)
- 1/2 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 big measuring spoon sugar (10gr)
- 1 small measuring spoon instant yeast (5gr)
- 1 small measuring spoon salt
I use this recipe also for making pizza dough. According to your liking, you can replace 1 cup of white flour with 1 cup of rye,barley or multigrain flour. Poppy seeds, sun dried tomatoes, chopped black olives or roasted coarsely chopped walnuts will add flavours to your bread which would be your unique signature.
The loaf before the second rise ...and after right after coming out from the oven....
Hi there, thank you for this wonderful post. I can even smell the freshly baked bread....hhmmm! I used to make bread several years ago but stopped this habit again, but with so much support now I will simply have to take it up again. Maybe I should buy a bread baking machine as well. We have a very high "bread culture" here in Austria, with many different types (dark and light) to be obtained in every bakery, but many of those are made from instant baking mixtures. They are incredibly good on the first day but boring on the next. And I would love the challenge of baking bread - and smelling the result all over the house ! Thank you, Tülin, for this inspiring post. Many hugs from Vienna to Athens, angelika
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