Tag: Bread
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Lean Bread Machine Bread
Lean or Rustic A lean bread is flour, water, yeast and salt. Technically, a lean bread is made with flour, water, salt and yeast, without fat: butter, oil, or vegetable shortening. Fat mixed and kneaded shortens gluten strands, making the bread softer. Salt interacts with amino acids in the flour as the protein bind to…
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Bread Machine Sandwich Loaves
Standard Recipes I am sceptical of the idea that a recipe for bread works in all bread machines. I think bread machine recipes have to be customized for machines. 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…
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Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook
Introduction Endless Post This post was published in 2020 and has been revised a few times. I don’t republish or change the date or mark up the revisions. Recommendations The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook is a unique book. I have kept it and refer to it on baking and bread machine issues. I have…
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Zojirushi BB-PAC20
Virtuoso Zojirushi started production of BB-PAC20 Virtuoso bread machine before 2016. The following reviews describe and illustrate this machine: Zojirushi, by 2019, was marketing the BB-PDC20 Virtuoso Plus. I found a refurbished Virtuoso BB-PAC20 in an online store in early 2020. [Update. I later found the Bread Machine Diva site, which has material on Zojirushi’s…
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Bread Machine Recipe Tables
Bread Machine Recipes Note I began to chart bread machine recipes when I realized that each manufacturer designs its programs for its machines. “Standard” recipes (e.g. Bread Lovers Bread Machine Cookbook) fail in some devices. I experimented with putting recipe information in tables in the TablePress plugin and storing and publishing the table on this…
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Bread Machine Artisan Bread?
Reasons a bread machine cannot be used, in the baking programs, to bake artisan bread: Gluten. The autolyze (a rest after mixing before kneading) and other rests during kneading allows gluten to form in a less structured way that produces the more open crumb of French bread and artisan loaves. Fermentation. Artisan loaves involve pre-ferments,…
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Yeast measurement for bread machines
Yeast for a Panasonic machine Low salt I had tried, with the machine I had before the Panasonic SD-YD250 bread machine (acquired in 2016), to use less salt than the recipe says. For a reduction of salt by 50%, I followed the rule of thumb of reducing salt and yeast equally by weight. For low…
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Bread Machines
Introduction Purpose Bread machines came on the market about 1986, and became popular outside Japan by the late 1990s. My first bread machine was a Black & Decker B1561. I replaced it with a Panasonic SD-YD250 in 2016, and a Zojirushi Virtuoso (the 2016 model, the BB-PAC20) in 2020 [Updated]. A bread machine is a…
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B%, Flour, Water, Yeast, Salt – Bread & Bread machines
Flour Flour, whether refined and milled fine or coarse, is the ground product of grains. It contains plant proteins and starch. Starch is the carbohydrate in bread, and the ingredient thing that makes it food. Starch consisted of complex molecules of glucose and more complex sugars. The molecules react when exposed to water. Starch begins…
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Dry Yeast
Introduction Dry yeast for baking bread in ovens (at home) is normally dry baker’s yeast. In 1999, Beth Hensperger, in her Bread Bible said that the yeast on the market for the home baker included cakes of fresh yeast and dry yeasts: The use of fresh yeast (yeast cakes or compressed yeast) in home baking…