Do You Really Need Bread Machine Mixes?
Do you use bread machine mixes when you make yeast bread in your automatic bread-making machine? If so, why? It is so easy to make gourmet bread quickly from simple bread recipes and so much more flexible too. If you use bread machine mixes you are limited to the bread machine mixes you can find ” no matter how many there are.
On the other hand, a good bread machine recipe book is infinitely more flexible than bread machine mixes. A good bread machine cookbook might give you 150 or so recipes originating from several countries, but it will also inspire you to adapt those recipes, encouraging you to be creative and invent your own style of bread.
Bread machine mixes are really quite restricting and you have no control about what goes into the bread machine mix either: preservatives, colouring, MSG, salt or who knows what. OK, it says on the label, but you cant remove them, if you only use bread machine mixes.
Making bread is really very simple. Or to put it correctly, the ingredients to making bread are really quite easy. To bake a very basic loaf of bread, you need only: water, flour, yeast, sugar, salt and a little oil or fat. The difficult part about making bread is the mixing. It can take four or five hours mixing the bread making ingredients together; waiting for it to rise; kneading it; waiting for it to prove; kneading it again and cooking 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 more simple? 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 capsule on top of the bread machine; set the timer and just carry on with what you have to do or even go to bed!
The bread making machine will mix the ingredients and check the timer. Our bread-making machine can be programmed 16 hours in advance. That means that, if you want your gourmet, yeast bread ready for 8:30 AM, the bread-making machine will mix the flour, water, salt oil and sugar immediately, add the yeast at say, 6 AM, knead, prove and bake the bread and ring a bell at 8:30 to announce that your gourmet food is waiting for you.
But you wont need the alarm to tell you that. The aroma of fresh bread will [permeate|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 whole life. And you will never look for bread machine mixes again. Youll be overflowing with your own bread machine mixes in no time at all and youll be giving bread away so that you can try out your very own latest bread machine mix recipe.
Bread machine mixes ” we don’t need ‘em?
