Do You Really Need Bread Machine Mixes?
Do you use bread machine mixes when you make yeast bread in your automatic bread-making machine? If so, why? It is so easy to make gourmet bread quickly from simple bread recipes and so much more flexible too. If you use bread machine mixes you are limited to the bread machine mixes you can find ” no matter how many there are.
On the other hand, a good bread machine recipe book is infinitely more flexible than bread machine mixes. A good bread machine cookbook might give you 150 or so recipes originating from several countries, but it will also inspire you to adapt those recipes, encouraging you to be creative and invent your own style of bread.
Bread machine mixes are really quite restricting and you have no control about what goes into the bread machine mix either: preservatives, colouring, MSG, salt or Heaven knows what. OK, it says on the label, but you cant remove them, if you only use bread machine mixes.
Making bread is really quite simple. Or to put it correctly, the ingredients to making bread are really quite simple. To make a very basic loaf of bread, you only need: flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt and fat or oil. The hard part about making bread is the mixing. It can take five hours to mix the bread mixture together; to wait for it to rise; to knead it; wait for it to prove; knead it again and bake it.
So, if you have a bread making machine you can automate the hard bread mixing, proving, kneading cycle and if you have a bread-making recipe book you will be furnished with numerous recipes to guide and encourage you.
What could be easier? You consult the bread-making machine recipe book for an appetizing recipe; you put the household ingredients into the bread mixing bowl of the bread machine and you put the yeast into a time-release container on the top of the bread machine; set the timer and just carry on with what you have to do or even go to sleep!
The bread making machine will mix the ingredients and check the timer. My bread-making machine has a sixteen-hour timer. So, if you want your gourmet, yeast bread ready for 6:30 AM, the bread-making machine will mix the flour, water, salt oil and sugar immediately, add the yeast at say, 4 AM, knead, prove and bake the bread and ring a bell at 6:30 to announce that your gourmet food is ready.
Except that you wont need the alarm to let you know that. The aroma of freshly-baked bread will permeate your house and you will be very much aware of the fact that your bread making machine is just about ready to serve one of the best loaves of bread youve ever had in your life! And you will never ever look for bread machine mixes again. Youll be overflowing with ideas for your own bread machine mixes in no time at all and youll be giving bread away as presents so that you can try out your next very own bread machine mixture.
Bread machine mixes ” why bother with them?
