Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Make Homemade Bread Just How You Like It

Bread is a staple of life. We all have eaten it and some of us rely on it as a daily food item. A favorite sandwich for lunch, a crust of bread with soup for dinner, or jam and toast in the morning are common ways we all can enjoy bread.

Bread comes in many shapes, sizes, textures and flavors. Plain old white bread, whole wheat, rye with caraway seeds, and twelve-grain breads are just a few variations that we commonly see on grocery store shelves. Besides sliced loaves for sandwiches, there are dinner rolls and buns for hotdogs and hamburgers. Many stores have bakeries where many kinds of bread are made or delivered daily, like Italian bread, French baguettes, Focaccia, Salolio bread, rolls, muffins, cakes, and more.

When you take a little time to make your own bread, you can add the ingredients you like and leave out the ones you don't. Making it homemade allows you to have it your way, and the bread can be hot and fresh when you're ready to eat it. No preservatives are needed with homemade bread. When it's homemade, people can't help but eat it!

A basic white bread recipe can be easily altered to taste. When using a bread machine an audible alarm is set off at the appropriate time to alert you to add special ingredients. At this point the dough is still being mixed so ingredients added at this stage will be blended into the bread dough. Try adding raisins, seeds, or nuts for a healthy, nutty-tasting bread. Add cubes of mozzarella cheese, onion, and pepperoni to make pizza bread, or just add your favorite cheese to make cheese bread.

Whole wheat bread is just as easy to make with the right recipe. The important part to remember when using a bread machine is to use the right program cycle when using whole wheat or rye flour. These flours are more dense than all-purpose white flour and require more mixing and rising time. For example, making a whole wheat bread requires an additional kneading period and rising time that consumes an extra 50 minutes in one popular bread maker, when compared to making a similar white loaf.

Read your bread machine manual. They're mostly online now, in case you can't find yours. The manuals show how to use the bread machine and will have a few recipes for you to try. Chances are good that you'll already have the ingredients for a basic white bread.




Naomi Gallagher is a writer and a fantastic cook with a love for machines that help her make the most of her time in the kitchen. Making homemade bread has become one of her specialties. Learn more by visiting her sites where she likes to write about making bread and cooking great food: http://carouselspicerack.com/ and http://sunbeambreadmachine.com/.

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