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 review 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 It is a 2016 machine, superseded in the product line by the Virtuoso Plus.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 …
I began to chart recipes in tables when I realized that recipes from sources like the Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook (2000) did not work in a Panasonic SD-YD250 machine. Each manufacturer has its own set of programs for its machines. Standard recipes fail, predictably, in some devices. Hidden rows and columns hold data such …
An Instant Pot is not a traditional slow cooker (“TSC”). The TSC has two cooking settings: low and high. Recipes for TSCs assume: the heat is delivered by the element around the lower vertical sides of a ceramic crock; food near the element may cook faster or even reach a sauté/fry/burn temperature; fluid near the …
Instant Pots and other pressure multicookers are high energy devices that saute and pressure cook, but do not necessarily perform well at simmering. An Instant Pot or other pressure multi-cooker will cook steamed rice in the pressure cooker program. A stovetop pressure cooker will too. The preheat and the time at operating pressure bring the …
The principals of Double Insight developed the Instant Pot pressure multi-cooker in 2008-9. It was on the market by 2012, and took off in 2015-6 with social media and presence in Amazon Market Place. “Instant Pot” is not a trade mark like Vacuum Cleaner or Bandaid. Instant Pot launched a sous-vide heater in 2018, and …