Zara Elby - Bread Machine Cookbook: The Ultimate Baking Recipe Book for Easy, Tasty, Sweet and Savoury Homemade Bread, Loaves and Snacks Including Gluten Free Options!

Bread Machine
Cookbook

The Ultimate Baking Recipe Book for
Easy, Tasty, Homemade Bread, Loaves and Snacks including Gluten Free,
Sweet and Savoury, which are Perfect Every Time!

Zara Elby

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Thank you for downloading this book, Bread Machine Cookbook: The Ultimate Baking Recipe Book for Easy, Tasty, Homemade Bread, Loaves and Snacks Including Gluten Free, Sweet and Savoury, which are Perfect Every Time!

Fresh bread is always better than store-bought ones. The smell, taste, and appearance are different. It is more appetizing and satisfying.

However, it can be difficult to make fresh bread in the morning or at any time of the day. Luckily, the bread machine was invented. Now, it is easier to bake fresh bread at any time of the day.

The book aims to teach baking bread using a bread machine and to provide recipes that make use of it. This book shows how versatile and useful the bread machine is.

I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1:
Overview of Bread Machine

The Start of Bread Machine

In the mid-1980s, a Japanese company, named Panasonic, introduced the first bread machine. The machine could cook bread in almost the same way as a rice cooker could cook rice.

It had success in Australia, America, and other countries that have bread as their staple food. Soon, many homes started using bread machines to have fresh bread any time they wanted.

Should You Buy One? The Pros and Cons

Bread machines might be small, but they are a helpful appliance. Here are some pros and cons of having the appliance to help you know if it is right for you.

Pros

• It is convenient to use. The appliance is a set and wait machine. You only have to set the controls of the machine and wait for your bread.
• You will always have perfect bread. Most bread machines require the specific type of bread you want and its specific weight. This is because the machine is programmed to determine its rising, proofing, and baking time. It also determines the length of the kneading process. As long as you put in the right measurement of ingredients, you will end up having perfect bread every time.
• It is easier to clean. Most bread machines are not messy to use. The only part that usually needs cleaning is the bread pan. The pan is non-stick. Hence, it is easy to clean with soap and water.
• It is a flexible baking assistant. You can make other types of bread and pastries easily with the help of the machine. It takes away the stressful kneading process. You can use it to prepare the dough for dinner rolls, pizza crusts, and buns, which you can then bake in the oven.

Cons

• It can only bake loaves. It does not offer a variety of shapes. You cannot bake rolls or buns in the bread machine. You would need to transfer your dough to an oven to make other shaped bread.
• Machines with custom features are expensive. Old or traditional bread machines have limited features. They do not allow the addition of certain ingredients as it may damage the machine. Those that allow custom ingredients and offer other edgy features cost more.

Finding the Right Bread Machine

Most bread machines have different function or features, but all of them have these two important functions: dough and bake.

The dough function involves the mixing of the ingredients, the kneading, and the rising/proofing of the dough.

The bake function involves everything in the dough function, but it automatically bakes the bread.

Aside from these two functions, here are some quality features to look for in a bread machine.

1. The Time Delay

Advantage : If the bread is baked in the machine the night before, the bread may not be as hot and as fresh in the morning. With this feature, you can set a time delay, so that the machine would not start baking the bread immediately.

Disadvantage : It is not applicable to bread with perishable ingredients, like eggs, apples, and onions. They might expire while waiting to be mixed and you would end up with spoiled bread in the morning.

2. The Automatic Dispenser

Advantage : This feature is for adding additional ingredients to your dough, like chocolate chips, nuts, raisins and more. It is not necessary because you can always open the lid and place the additional ingredients. It is only useful when you do not want to wait around until it is time to add the ingredients to the dough.

Disadvantage : Bread machines with this feature are significantly more expensive.

3. Rapid Bake/Quick Bread

Advantage : It makes bread faster, about half the time of the regular baking time. This is ideal in making rush bread for lunch or dinner parties. It is also great for non-yeast bread. In some machines, it can be used to bake brownies or cakes.

Disadvantage : The texture of the yeast bread would be different. It will have more air pockets than the bread baked on its standard setting.

Chapter 2:
Making Perfect Bread

Importance of Ingredients

Perfect bread is easy to achieve with the help of the bread machine, but the ingredients are more important than the machine.

Ingredients are what make up the bread. It gives the taste, the appearance, the texture, and the smell.

Quality Ingredients

Poor quality ingredients will result in poor quality bread. You cannot achieve first class bread by using third class ingredients.

However, your ingredients need to be the right ingredients, too. Sometimes, recipes would call for lower quality ingredients, but it is the right ingredient for that particular recipe.

Right Quantity of Ingredients

Traditional bread making is forgiving. You can always add more flour or butter to the dough while kneading it. That is because you could feel the texture of the dough as you make it.

Bread machines or other automatic bread makers are not as forgiving. Your hands do not touch and feel the dough as the machine kneads it. You will not know if the dough is too soft or too dry. Hence, it is important that you put in the right quantity of ingredients.

Adding more of an ingredient can cause your bread to collapse or over rise in the machine. It may also cause the machine to overcook or undercook it.