Making Bread

Urban Girl · #1 25-05-2011, 07:21 AM

Just wondering if any of you are any good at baking your own bread?? Either in the oven or in a breadmaker??

I have a breadmaker but seem to stick to the same basic loaves and would love some new breadmaker recipes to try.

I tried a new recipe yesterday I found on the net that was supposed to be a close match to Vogels bread (do you get Vogels over there in Oz?). It didn't compare to Vogels I didn't think, but it was lovely for a mixed grain loaf and I'd probably make it again.

The great thing about fresh bread I find is that my kids love eating it warm, and they don't think twice about the fact that they're eating a mixed grain loaf. They normally have plain white bread from the supermarket for school lunches and things.

Julie-Ann · #2 25-05-2011, 10:29 AM

Oh you are so good making your own bread

. I just buy it from the store. And it is always wholegrain because I say so. When DH goes to buy the bread for some reason there is never any wholemeal available and he has to get white bread

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Eli · #3 25-05-2011, 10:36 AM

That's funny J-A we have the same issues in this house.

I used to use my breadmaker a lot but not anymore as bread is too fattening, lol.

Cherylle · #4 25-05-2011, 10:51 AM

I have a breadmaker (in a storage box somewhere) but have no space for it at the moment. So I'm afraid I haven't any recipes to offer.

We now have our 9 and 12 years olds actually preferring wholegrain bread, so we just have to convince Mr 14 that it is the way to go, but in his most typical teenage behaviour, he doesn't want to conform

and is determined to stick with white bread.

Urban Girl · #5 25-05-2011, 11:49 AM

We invested in a quite expensive breadmaker with DH's suggestion we make ALL our own bread (for bread for school lunches, toast bread etc) so that we have lovely fresh bread without additives & cr*p in them.

I think I made white bread for the kids for a few weeks then the novelity wore off and it was easier to buy a few cheap sandwhich loaves from the supermarket, then at least if they didn't eat them all at lunch time, I didn't feel so mad that they wasted MY bread! lol

It is nice I admit to having a fresh bread with homemade soup on a cold winter's evening, or even for lunches if I'm home. And the smell......well.....yummmm.

Really hard to resist eating it hot, ony half a loaf ends up getting sliced and put into the freezer for later use usually.