I'm interested in getting a bread machine to start making my own high
fibre, whole grain bread.
Any suggestions on which bread machine to use, and where to purchase
high quality ingredients online?
Thanks,
Ann
Kamalakar Pasupuleti - 07 Aug 2005 19:12 GMT
> I'm interested in getting a bread machine to start making my own high
> fibre, whole grain bread.
I believe they have discontinued . You can still
bake them in conventional oven . High fiber whole grain is
available in health food stores . In Wisconsin there are many
stores which carry almost every grain across the world . I moved over
and need to find at my new place .
Kam
Ann - 07 Aug 2005 19:40 GMT
I was talking of a bread machine to mix it. I would bake it in the
oven.
John Sankey - 08 Aug 2005 01:02 GMT
You don't need to give up on bread machines to bake good bread.
See http://sankey.ws/bread.html for recipes for Canadian
ingredients. You just need a bit more American flour to make
them work in the USA.
Black&Decker is what I use - it's worked fine for me for many years.
For whole wheat, use fresh-ground - even a day sitting around
seems to make a big difference. I grind my own and use it within
minutes, while it's still warm from grinding.
John Sankey - 08 Aug 2005 15:03 GMT
>>I grind my own and use it within
>> minutes, while it's still warm from grinding.
>How coarse you grind and what wheat do you use ?
I use standard commercial hard wheat (Canadian), make sure it's
fully dry, and grind it as fine as I can. It comes out fairly
close to commercial flour, except for the outer bran which tends
to get squashed rather than cut. The proportions for garlic bread
on my web page (http://sankey.ws/bread.html), without the garlic,
are about right with the 'whole wheat' cycle on my machine, but
expect to adjust for your wheat - it's astonishing how much they
vary between countries.
My 'stone' is manmade, tungsten carbide I believe, and was
originally hand cranked. I added power myself and run it at about
half the speed of commercial powered grinders. The flour comes
out at about 35C, a lot cooler than commercial grinders.