Why? The main reason for baking smaller loaves is to have fresh bread and avoid spoilage. Bread is considered an intermediate-moisture food product that is prone to mould spoilage. Normally bread is eaten fresh or preserved using additives or modified atmosphere packaging. Stanley P. Cauvain, Breadmaking, 2nd ed. 2012 Home bakers, bread machine bakers and …
Bread was made with rye flour in parts of Eurasia where and when rye grew and wheat did not, including the parts of central and nothern Europe around the Baltic Sea. Rye has less protein and does not produce enough gluten to rise like a leavened wheat bread. Pumpernickel is outside the capabilities of bread …
Multigrain Multigrain means a blend of bread flour and whole wheat, or another flour. These recipes involve 15% -50 % whole wheat flour by weight. Increasing the whole wheat flour in these recipes would require rewriting the recipe with adjustments to hydration and fermentation. I adapt recipes, mainly from the Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook …
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. Salt interacts with amino acids making up the …
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 …
[Updated March 2020] Beth Hensperger’s Bread Bible earned the 2000 James Beard Foundation award for a cookbook in the Baking & Dessert category. It was a cookbook for home bakers who baked in ovens. It mainly had recipes using the ingredients available to retail customers. At that time, home bakers mainly used active dry yeast; …
The Zojirushi Virtuoso BB-PAC20 bread machine is a 2016 machine, superseded in the product line by the Virtuoso Plus.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 have owned. It doesn’t rattle and try to dance off the counter. …
I began to chart recipes in tables when I realized that each manufacturer has its own set of programs for its machines. Predictably, standard recipes (e.g. Bread Lovers Bread Machine Cookbook) fail in some devices. Bread machines are either dry (flour) first or wet (water or milk) first, according to manufacturer’s recommendation. Either way, load …
Rice? Any vessel that can hold rice and water can cook rice. A rice cooker applicance, a pot on a stove top, or a pressure cooker all cook rice. Using a pressure cooker or pressure multi-cooker to cook rice may not be the best use of that device, depending on the meal being prepared. For …
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 …