Homemade Wholemeal Bread
I’ve never had many kitchen appliances but as I’ve gotten older and busier I find some of them are indeed time savers and a great help.
My husband and I much prefer making our own bread but it does take time and effort and we certainly don’t have the time. For years we toyed with the idea of buying a breadmaker but heard on the grape vine that they only made small loaves so we thought there was no point bothering with one. Just after Christmas some bread we had bought at a local bakery tasted a little strange so we decided to check out the breadmakers again and low and behold they now make loaves in three sizes, 750 gram, 1kg, and 1.25kg so we bought one. It was the best thing we ever did as far as having delicious, wholesome, healthy and fresh bread.
It’s so easy to make a loaf, all we do is plonk the ingredients in, press a couple of buttons and in a few hours we have the aroma of fresh baked bread in our kitchen and delicious bread that we know has no unpleasant ingredients.
Fresh Wholemeal Bread with Cherry Jam,
It’s hard to resist fresh warm bread with butter and cherry jam. The breadmaker we bought comes with a recipe book which includes herb and garlic bread, and rye bread. It has a fruit and nut dispenser and also makes cakes and jams. I’ve already made sun-dried tomatoe and olive bread – delicious!
Very good, welcome to 2012, I have a bread maker but have lost the book so therefore lost the recipe. Could you be a dear and let me have the recipe for your lovely bread pretty please?!!!!! xx
Very funny Mrs Jennie!I used to make bread by hand when we lived in the bush back in the late ’70s then a bush fire came and burnt us out along with the flour tins and bread tins(they warped strangely enough)- that was the one good thing – no more bread making. It was such hard work – did it every day. I also hear that breadmakers are ‘green’ i.e. they use less power per loaf than bakers’ ovens so there ye go!
Here is the recipe my lovely:
750 gram Wholemeal loaf – I’m sure you know you put the ingredients in the pan in the order they’re listed
Water 320ml, Butter or Margarine 1 1/2 tablespoons, Salt 1 1/2 teaspoons, Brown Sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons, Skim Milk Powder 2 tablespoons, Bread Improver 1 teaspoon, Wholemeal Plain Flour 3 1/3 cups, Yeast 1 1/2 teaspoons.
Anyway, how can you lose a book? xoxoxo