Bread Machine Loaves – Bread Flour

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 not work in that machine.  For 50% salt, I reduce salt and yeast by 50%. I adjusted yeast for BLBMC recipes baked in Panasonic SD-YD250 machine. The BLBMC recipes for white bread loaves worked in the Panasonic with the adaptation. When I started to bake in a Zojirushi BB-PAC20, I changed my method of writing recipes in tables, and changed my recipes to specify the amount of instant yeast for that machine.

The Zojirushi manual provides recipes for basic white flour loaves, including a sandwich bread called Basic White Bread. I noticed Zojirushi’s approach to measuring flour. Its recipes identify volume and weight, but it advises users to scoop flour and fill a measuring cup. This means a less dense or lighter cup than a meauring cup dragged through the flour. This has to watched. I use the amount of flour in the Zojirushi recipe by weight.

Zojirushi’s recipes refer to Fleischmann’s active dry yeast and rapid-rise yeast. I think active dry yeast is less dense than instant yeast, and use 6/7 of the amount of active dry yeast the recipe requires. This seems to work with loaves made with bread flour and multigrain loaves.

Here are a few bread flour sandwich loaf recipes, including:

• sandwich loaves, 100% bread flour, with some dry milk (milk powder);
• sandwich loaf with up to 33% whole wheat;
• sandwich loaf with specialty flour and seeds

Zojirushi Basic White:

Loaf	Medium	Medium		80% Medium
	Zojirushi	50% sodium	50% sodium	50% sodium
Program	Basic Bake	Basic Bake		Basic Bake
Ingredient	Weight [V]	Weight|{water} [V]	B%	Weight
Yeast choose one
(Active Dry Yeast)	4.2 g.
Instant Yeast	3.6 g.	1.8 g.		1.4 g.
Bread Flour	416 g.	416 g.	90	333 g.
Skim Milk Powder	9 g. [1.5 tbsp.]	9 g. [1.5 tbsp.]		7.2 g. [1.2 tbsp. = 3.5 tsp.]
Sugar	35 g. [3 tbsp.]	35 g. [3 tbsp.]		28 g. [2.5 tbsp.]
Total flour/dry		460	100
Salt	8.4 g. [1.5 tsp.]	4.2 g.		3.4 g.
Butter	2 tbsp.	28 g.|{4 g.} [2 tbsp.]		28 g.|{4 g.} [2 tbsp.]
Water	237 g. [1 cup]	237 g.		189 g.
Hydration		241 g.	52	193 g

BLBMC Country White:

Loaf	Medium	Medium		80% Medium
	BLBMC	50% Sodium	50% Sodium	50% Sodium
Program	Basic Bake	Basic Bake		Basic Bake
Ingredient	Volume [W]	Weight [V]	B %	Weight [V]
Yeast choose one
Instant Yeast High	2 tsp. [5.6 g.]	2.8 g.
I.Y. BB-PAC20		1.6 g.		1.3 g.
I.Y. Low	1 tsp.	1.4 g
Bread Flour	3 cups	417 g.	92	334 g.
Instant Potato Flakes	1.5 tbsp.	6 g. [1.5 tbsp.]		5 g. [1 tbsp + .5 tsp]
Skim Milk Powder	3 tbsp.	18 g. [3 tbsp.]		[2 tbsp + .75 tsp]
Sugar	1 tbsp.	12.5 g. [1 tbsp.]		14 g. [2.25 tsp.]
Gluten	1 tbsp.	0
total flour/dry		454 g.	100
Salt	1.5 tsp. [8.6 g.]	4.3 g.		3.4 g.
Oil; Canola or Olive	1 tbsp.	[1 tbsp.]		[2.25 tsp.]
Water	1.33 cups	305 g.	67	244 g.

BLBMC Honey Whole Wheat. 33% whole wheat flour and honey flavoured:

Loaf	Medium	Medium		85% Medium
	BLBMC	50% Sodium		50% Sodium
Program	Basic Bake
Ingredient	Volume	Weight|{water} [V.]	B%	Weight|{water} [V.]
Instant Yeast High	2.25 tsp. [6.3 g.]	3.2 g.
I.Y. BB-PAC20		1.8 g.		1.5 g.
I.Y. Low		1.6 g.
Bread Flour	2 cups	285 g.		242 g.
Whole Wheat	1 cup	139 g.		118 g.
Gluten	4 tsp.	8 g. [1 tbsp.]		6.6 g.
Total Flour/dry		432 g.	100
Salt	2 tsp. [11.4 g.]	5.7 g.		4.8 g.
Butter	1 tbsp.	n|{2 g.} [1 tbsp.]		n|{2 g.} [1 tbsp.]
Honey	.25 cups	80 g.|{16 g.}		68 g.|{14 g.} [3 tbsp.]
Large egg	1	57 g.|{36 g}		57 g.|{36 g}
Skim Milk	.5 cups	123 g.|{112 g.}		105 g.|{95 g.}
Water	.33 cups	90 g. *		73 g. *
Total water		256 g.	59	218 g.

BLBMC Buckwheat-Millet. Some buckwheat flour and some millet for texture:

Loaf	Medium	Medium		80% Medium
	BLBMC	50% Sodium	50% Sodium	50% Sodium
Program	Basic Bake	Basic Bake		Basic Bake
Ingredient	Volume	Weight|{Water} [V.]	B %	Weight [V.]
Yeast choose one
Instant Yeast	2 tsp. [5.6 g.]	2.8 g.
IY BB-PAC20		1.6 g.		1.2 g.
IY Low	1 tsp. [2.8 g.]	1.4 g.
Bread Flour	2.67 cups	371 g.		297 g.
Buckwheat Flour	.33 cups	43 g.		34 g.
Gluten	1 tbsp.	0		0
Total Flour		414 g.	100
Millet	.33 cups	[.33 cups]		[.26 cups = 1/4 cup + 3/4 tsp.]
Salt	1.5 tsp	4.3 g.		3.2 g.
Butter	1 tbsp.	n|{2 g.} [1 tbsp.]		n|{2 g.} [1 tbsp.]
Honey	2 tbsp	21 g.|{5 g.} [2 tbsp.]		17 g.|{4 g.} [1.6 tbsp]
Water		266 g.		215 g.
Hydration		273 g.	66	~218