I am decribing the lentils and other small dry legumes, as opposed to small phaseolus beans (including black turtle beans). Such legumes are commonly sold as dry grain; some canned lentils are available. Some were sold in bulk food stores and as bulk foods in grocery stores. The availability of bulk products was affected in …
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 …
Ffor 10-15 years, 2006-2020 multi-cookers were electric pressure cookers with: a heating element in a round plate below the cooking vessel, stainless or non-stick metal pots, sensors, a control panel and a programmed control responding to feedback from the sensors. Midea of Guangdong Province, China patented a multi-cooker in 2006. Fagor America and its European …
Why? The main reasons for baking smaller loaves are 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 Food exposed to air picks up …
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. I adapt recipes, mainly from the Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook (“BLBMC”). I write recipes in tables, and updated tables. The basic bake program works in most machines for …
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 …
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; some had access …
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. …