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Your Guide To Bread Machine Mixes
By Marion Jones | October 1, 2009
Do you use bread machine mixes when you want to make yeast bread in your automatic bread-making machine? If you do, why do you? Because you think it’s easier? It is so easy to make gourmet bread quickly from easy bread recipes and so much more variable too. If you use bread machine mixes you are limited to the bread machine mixes you can find in the stores ” no matter how many of them there are.
However, a good bread machine recipe cookbook is far more flexible than bread machine mixes. A good bread machine recipe book will give you about 150 recipes coming from many countries, but it will also encourage you to change those recipes, encouraging you to be creative and develop your own style of bread.
Bread machine mixes are really quite restricting and you have no control over what goes into the bread machine mix either: preservatives, colouring, MSG, salt or who knows what. Yes, it says on the label, but you cant take them out, if you limit yourself to bread machine mixes.
Making bread is really quite simple. Or to put it correctly, the ingredients to making bread are really quite simple. To make a very basic loaf of bread, you only need: flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt and fat or oil. The hard part about making bread is the mixing. It can take four hours to mix the bread mixture together; to wait for it to rise; to knead it; wait for it to prove; knead it again and cook it.
So, if you have a bread making machine you can automate the hard bread mixing, proving, kneading cycle and if you have a bread-making cookbook you will be provided with recipes to guide and inspire you.
What could be easier? You look in the bread-making machine cookbook for an appetizing recipe; you put the everyday ingredients into the bread mixing bowl of the bread machine and you put the yeast into a time-release box on top of the bread machine; set the timer and go about your daily life or go to sleep!
The bread making machine will mix the ingredients and check the timer. My bread-making machine has a sixteen-hour timer. So, if you want your gourmet, yeast bread ready for 6:30 AM, the bread-making machine will mix the flour, water, salt oil and sugar immediately, add the yeast at say, 4 AM, knead, prove and bake the bread and ring a bell at 6:30 to announce that your gourmet food is ready.
But you won’t need the bell to tell you that. The smell of that fresh bread will fill your house and you will be well aware that your bread making machine is almost ready to deliver one of the best loaves of bread youve ever had in your life. And you won’t ever look for bread machine mixes again. You’ll be brimming over with your own bread machine mixes in no time at all and you’ll be giving bread away so that you can try out your very own latest bread machine mix.
Bread machine mixes: we don’t need ‘em?
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