From scratch bread recipe (for a breadmaker)

[Yael]

Hey guys,

I'm after recipes to make from scratch for a breadmaker (i.e. no pre-made bread mixes). We bought one as we are doing the failsafe diet, and we only eat kosher, and can't buy any preservative free bread anywhere, so we are making our own.

I got a Panasonic one, but the basic recipe wants me to add powdered milk and butter to it, and we are also going dairy free, so I don't know how to substitute it, and thought a totally different recipe might be better.

Anyone got any recipes that they use in their bread machine?

I've got my first batch going now, I am using the recipe from the back of the bakers flour packet (flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm water & egg), so I will see how I go.

Also, we normally only eat multi grain bread, but that is out for the diet, so I wanted to do wholemeal, but I'm not sure I understood the instruction manual. It says you can't use normal white flour for the white bread, you need to buy bakers flour or bread flour, as it needs to be higher in protein. Then in the recipe section for wholemeal loaves it says whole wheat flour. Is that the same as wholemeal flour? Does it need to be special wholemeal (like some bakers flour equivalent??).

Who knew baking bread would be this complicated.

But some of the recipes in here look awesome! Pity about the diet cutting out 99% of them!

[~clover~]

I've always used plain flour in mine. Not bakers. I just bought wholemeal flour last week to try. I think the recipe I've used most is pretty much the one you have above. There's an extra additive that I was supposed to get for my bread maker, but I could never find it. Something that made the bread lighter & fluffier? Its the only thing I want to try. Maybe though, its already in bakers flour & thats why they suggest using it?

My bread mker came with a huge list of scratch recipe's (all in NSW still ) I get most of my recipe's from taste. Read the reviews under though. Saves wasting time.