Bread Machine & Oven Cookbook
180 Perfect Recipes for Home Baking
Knead in the Bread Maker and Bake in the Oven
Amber Carwile
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Bread makers have always charmed me with their vast multipurpose capabilities, and so Ive been striving to use them for cooking something more than mere bread! Their latest versions come with numerous programs and functions from the basics like BASIC, SWEET, DOUGH, and BAKING to the individual modes for cupcakes, French bread, jam, and unleavened and gluten-free breads. There really are few limits for these excellent devices!
My bread machine definitely takes pride in the kitchen. I often use it for the intended purpose and as a dough kneading machine and an electric oven of a kind. I love cooking experiments and adore the fragrance of fresh baked goods, which inspires me to unleash creativity in the unlimited creativity of new recipes.
I am the one who is always eager to try new approaches and ingredients, and in this book, I have collected the best out of many recipes that I have tried myself. At least they are the best in the opinion of my friends and family, and I am sure you will find some to your taste: breads, buns, cakes, tarts, and pies they are all easy-to-follow recipes I have collected on the pages of my book. Now everyone can easily make fresh, fragrant baked goods on an everyday basis.
Should you have just bought your first bread machine, take some time to read through its manual and first chapters of my book. After that, you can move on to the recipes. You wont need any exotic ingredients; Ive kept everything very simple, so with minimal effort and time, you will get a real piece of culinary art.
Enjoy crusty and fragrant bread and pastry at your home!
SO, LETS START!
Meet Your New Bread Machine
Hot golden crescent rolls, freshly baked breakfast buns, fragrant cake for teatime, and delicious pie to go with your morning coffee all of that can be cooked with a bread machine in mere minutes and with little effort on your part. Moreover, these tasty and healthy baked goods can be made with the simplest and common ingredients. The only special thing youll need to add is your love and creativity !
As for the routine and boring job s like mixing, stirring, and baking , the bread machine will take care of them, leaving you the best and the most enjoyable part, i.e., choosing the recipe and selecting the ingredients . Isnt that a great way to enjoy the unique smell and incredible taste of precisely the kind of baked goods you want?
Even if you are not good at using modern appliances, leave your worries behind, because bread machines have simple and user-friendly controls; using them is fun and easy! Along with making fresh bread, they can also make and knead any kind of dough, bake the ready-to-use dough, and even make some jam to go with the pastry! When you get to know this easy-to-use device, it will become a truly essential and irreplaceable help in your kitchen.
It's That Simple
Set the baking bucket into the machine.
Fasten the dough blades.
Add the ingredients, as shown in the manual for your machine.
Close the lid.
Turn on the machine.
Select the required mode.
Press START.
When the program ends, take the dough or baked goods from the machine.
Enjoy!
What Else Can It Do?
Different bread machines may differ in their design, capacity, number of accessories, and programs available. When choosing your bread machine, think of your own preferences and needs: What will you do with the machine? Do you need any particular programs and additional modes, or is the basic functionality enough?
Bread machines can knead the dough, let it rest, bake a crunchy baguette, make sweet cupcakes or unleavened bread, and much more.
What Ingredients Can You Use?
Even the most refined baked goods require only a few essential ingredients. However, you need to follow some basic advice: when you put ingredients into a bread machine, all the ingredients must be at room temperature . And, be sure to measure all the components (even liquids!) very carefully.
Flour
Finer flours are used for fluffier and softer pastries, but the coarse flour types with higher kernel weight percent contain more vitamins, minerals, and bulk substances.
Wheat is rich in gluten and thus suits bread baking best, but people also make flour from cereal and leguminous crops: rye, barley, oats, millet, rice, buckwheat, corn, peas, etc. Those flours contain very little gluten (which makes dough elastic and helps it keep its shape), and thus are rarely used on their own but often added to mixes with wheat flour.
Whole Grain
Whole grain flour contains all the valuable components of the groats, but unless freshly ground, it can lose its useful qualities.
Bake Mixes
Along with specific flours, you can also use ready-to-use bake mixes : pale bread, baguettes, potato bread, ciabatta, etc. Each combination contains all the necessary ingredients, and all you must do is follow the instructions to put them into your bread machine and start the corresponding program.
Yeast
When making the dough, you can use fresh or dry yeast . The fresh one has a more pronounced yeast flavor and should be crumbled or dissolved into the water before adding to the bread machine. Dry yeast can be mixed merely with flour.
Baking Powder
The main component of baking powder is soda. When affected by high temperature and acid, it turns into carbon dioxide that loosens the dough. Baking powder is used for cooking short crusts, cupcakes, and cookies.
Use Correct Raising Agent
If you want your baked goods to be fluffy and puffy, its essential to use a correct raising agent that suits your dough type.
If you use yeast , leaven, or other baking ferments, they will act as biological raising agents.
Sometimes you mechanically make the dough rise, for example, when whipping ingredients for a sponge cake, layering puff pastry, or adding boiling water to choux pastry.
Baking powder is a chemical-raising agent. It is usually used in dough with a high sugar and fats content, like cupcake dough or short crust pastries. (Biological raising agents would fail with these kinds of dough.)
Eggs
Eggs sold in shops and markets can differ in their weight. If a recipe just says "eggs," it implies the medium-sized ones.
Liquid Ingredients
The baking dough is usually based on water or milk , but you can also use other liquids like soft drinks, fruit or vegetable juices, yogurts, other dairy products , etc.
Replacing Allergenic Products
Many people have food intolerances and thus cannot consume eggs, milk, nuts, or yeast. When baking bread at home, you have the opportunity to replace such ingredients, but you need to remember that the substitutes may behave differently from the original products. Follow the instructions and give yourself some time to gain the necessary skills and experience.