Thursday, April 3, 2008

Bread recipe

I brought our breadmaker out of retirement last night and gave it a clean this morning and found a recipe online which i altered a little to not include bread improver as i didn't have any in the cupboard. Bread improver also has some ingredients I was happy to avoid, but it's pretty vital in breadmaker breads because it makes them work!
I found out ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) can improve bread structure so i replaced a portion of the water the recipe called for with orange juice and hey presto it worked.

To make a 750gm loaf of wholemeal bread in a breadmaker

300ml water
55ml fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon margarine
350gm Self raising flour
250gm Wholemeal plain flour
1 tbsp Brown sugar
1.5 tsp Salt
2 tsp Dry yeast

Method
1.Pour water and OJ into the bread pan and add margarine. Combine self raising flour with wholemeal plain flour, brown sugar and salt and add to pan. Make a small well in the top and fill with the yeast.
2.Place the bread pan into the breadmaker and close the lid.
3. Start the Wholemeal bread cycle

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

mmm yum
I made a tomato & basil loaf (from my bread maker recipe book) and I just omitted the bread improver and it was fine, ,so delish! Need to get some breadmakers flour and make loaves regularly I think!

majikfaerie said...

wahay! you crafty woman! OJ huh? :D

Anonymous said...

Gluten = EVIL!!! Still you are a domestic goddess :)