I used to have a bread maker. Actually Ingot it when I was 16 after I sideswiped a lady in a rental car. Turned out she had written a cookbook for bread makers and was on one of my local news stations showing one of her recipes. Long story even longer, she was from a different state and didn’t want to take the bread maker on the flight back with her so she gave it to me!
Yup, I sideswiped a lady and went home with a bread maker. Betcha didn’t see that one coming.
We made lots of bread with it to. Oh, she gave me a copy of the cookbook also!
I've made quite a bit of bread. I keep 5 gallon buckets with gamma seal lids for storing 50 lbs and 25 lbs sacks of bread flour and all purpose flour. Plus a Kitchenaid Pro series mixer for mixing and kneading the dough. I got tired of doing that part by hand. As I was starting to get too much hand pain.
In recent years I don't make it much anymore though. It just takes too long to mix, raise, pound down, raise again and bake. Plus clean up a huge mess. I used to make it several times a week.
My favorite is my grandmother's recipe for oatmeal bread. She was the head pastry chef and baker at some five star hotel in the 50's or 60's. I have her own special recipe for oatmeal bread which she'd been making since before then. Although I never got it quite like hers.
I also like to make Challah (heavily braided), honey oat beer bread, italian herbed bread, corn bread and Hawaiian bread.
I have a bread machine and have made many loaves. However, my favorite bread to make is Irish soda bread and is one I make by hand instead of putting it in the machine. It's super easy and yummy, fresh out of the oven.
You're amazing L2L! Side swipe a car and win a prize! 😂😂😂
Yes! I used to think it was easy, since you don’t need many ingredients to make one. Just knew that it takes a lot of practice to get a soft, fluffy loaf. I bake buns too when I am free. I don’t have bread maker so I need to knead the dough 😐
Yes, I used to work in a bakery, and around that time I would make my own banana bread or zuchinni bread at home, but wasn't much a fan of savory breads. Later on in life I started making sourdough at home and was really into having my own sourdough starter that I would feed and make more sourdough every week.
I lived in a bit of a commune type situation even later after that and we would get these 50lb bags of flour and I was always making bread in those days. It was almost mini bakery level as there were always at least a dozen people at the house and there were times when we would have as many as 50 people staying the night.
I make bread twice a week in average :) No bread maker or ready-mixes involved. I can't stand the fluffy stuff from the supermarkets, and ''proper'' bread is mostly ignored in my hosting country.
Hey LOVES, I have baked some of the BEST FRENCH bread you have ever eaten, made the dough, rolled it, let it rise, and rolled it into the best French Roll you have ever had your teeth in ! Also baked rye bread, AND made two layer cakes with Strawberry or cherry filling between layers and topped it off with Whipped cream icing !!!
NOT SAYIN' I COULD BARELY RESIST EATING THE WHOLE ROLL OF BREAD AT ONE TIME, WITH BUTTER AND A GLASS OF RED WINE...
After reading what I wrote, I think I should get off of my butt and start doing some of that again, along with learning to cook a full meal. I did have a luncheon for two women friends and it was fun to do, but did not involve actual 'cooking' something special. I have to pursue that.
I bake quite a lot of bread from scratch, but I don't have a bread maker so it's all but hand. During the lockdowns in the UK I was doing at least one a week.
Yes, we have bread-makers, and I've made my own bread a few times.
If bread weren't carbs, if I could actually get full from bread so I wouldn't devour the whole loaf in no time, and if more of our groceries were sandwich-based again, I would have baked more often and made it a skill to perfect. Oh, well.
Yeah, actually yesterday I made a pretty succesful focaccia for the first time (tried it before but half the amount of dough which came out too flat xD), without a bread maker but did use a hand mixer:
Does not have so big holes but still airy and very tasty dipped in good olive oil <3
I always have the ingredients on hand. Using a bread maker is cheating, There's nothing like doing bread the manual way, especially if you have had a stressful day, you can get a lot of that stress by kneading the dough and you end up with a better loaf.
The only bread I've made is Roti... I would love to make my own bread but in all honesty things like yeast isn't easily available at supermarkets here in the uk. I'd have to go to a more specialised shop and if I'm honest I'm a little bit lazy. Maybe if I drove I wouldn't mind travelling to the shops. You know. But man... They just opened a GAIL's bakery near my house. It smells sooo good. That's such a good reason to get out of bed in the morning.
I've baked many loaves in a bread machine. Italian, French and sourdough are baked most frequently. I have a neighbor that likes sourdough but his wife's doesn't taste right to him. He likes mine so every time he helps me, I return the favor with a loaf of sourdough.
I don't think I have ever made bread at home, but I made lots of it when I worked at a pizza place. They also served spaghetti and a couple of other pastas and so we also made bread.
I remember it took a couple of batches to get the bread right when we started out. If you do it often enough, you'll figure out the formula. Some of it will be your oven, and figuring out the right temp, and you MUST pre-heat your oven well in advance - you need the whole oven to have very even heat, and it takes a little while of being on before it equalizes.
Homemade bread is good better than store bought My late paternal grand-dad use to butter the bread and dip it in chicken broth my grandma would make for him and he was a country guy and made his own garden
Yes, after Hurricane Ida the store shelfs were empty and all I could find was frozen bread dough. So I baked my own bread until the stores stocked up again. About two weeks...
My mom made bread as I was growing up. The bread bowl she used she gifted to me. She made lots of wheat bread. I haven't made a lot of bread since I've been on my own but I've made some.
Not regular white or wheat bread. Banana bread and carrot cake (which is almost a kind of bread), I've baked those a few times. Just had some fresh-baked banana bread yesterday. It's almost all gone today. Yum!
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