The Nafufians, hunter gatherers in Jordan, were making bread with wild cereal 12,500 BCE. The master formula for ancient bread is to grind dried grain into a paste or flour, add water and yeast, let the stuff ferment, tear it in pieces and cook the pieces on a hot surface. People know how to grind …
The white chickpea is a staple dry legume in thecuisines of regions from the Meditarranean to India. The Romans named it cicero; the Italian word is ceci. It is also known in America as the garbanzo bean. In India it is known in as chole or chana. The Hindustani name is kabuli chana – the …
Lentils and other small dry legumes are usually sold as dry grain, although canned lentils are available. Whole green and brown lentils and split hulled red/pink/salmon lentils grown in the US or Canada are widely available in grocery stores. Other small dry legume may be availabe in stores specializing in selling supplies for South Asian, …
An Instant Pot can be used in the pressure cooker program for simple cooked legumes, and some curries and prepared dal dishes. The pressure cooker program will be the better choice for some dishes. The pressure cooker program is also useful to cook or quick soak dry legumes for slow cooker dishes. Laura Pazzaglia has …
A lean bread is flour, water, yeast and salt. Sandwich bread is enriched with sugar or milk. Milk has fats and sugars, in solution. Sugar makes the dough more extensible, which helps the dough to flow and rise. However, sugar or milk change the crust and crumb. Pure wheat white flour (rye or other grain …
Bread made with rye flour was made when rye grew in northern climates and wheat did not. Rye has less protein and does not produce enough gluten to rise like a leavened wheat bread. Rye loaves are a specialty product for commercial bakers. There are retail/craft/home formulas for a rustic style with rye flour, e.g. …
Bread machine loaves, comparing to the descriptions of baking pans for ovens: Flour Bread Machine Bread Machine Oven Pan Oven Pan Oven Pan 2 cups Small 1 pound 3 cups Medium 1.5 pound 1 pound 8 x 4 x 2½ inches (20½ x 10 x 6½ cm.) 1333 cubic cm. 4 cups Large 2 pound …
Multigrain Multigrain means a blend of bread flour and whole wheat, or white flour with another flour. A basic bake program will work where the dough has 50% bread flour, or more. At 50% bread flour, recipes may suggest a whole wheat program, or a machine’s multigrain program. “Standard” bread machine recipes have to be …
Bread machine recipes have to be customized for machines. I stopped trusting “standard” recipes. I adapt recipes, mainly from the Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook (“BLBMC”). I worked out my approach to yeast and low sodium in baking in a Panasonic SD-YD250 for medium (1.5 lb.) loaves June, July and August, 2018. BLBMC recipes did …
The reviews of the Zojirushi Virtuoso BB-PAC20 bread machine at: Breadmakers.com Kitchenstory.com describe and illustrate this machine. It is a 2016 machine, superseded in the product line by the Virtuoso Plus. I found a refurbished machine in an online store. It is a large, heavy, stable machine. It is quiet, compared to other machines I …