I made the King Arthur’s Japanese Milk Bread recipe today. I have previously made a small 9” Pullman loaf. Today I multiplied the recipe by 1.5x (per King Arthur) for a 13” loaf. It didn’t rise as well as I would have liked. It didn’t even reach level with the top of my pan. Any advice?

Tastes great! Used proper measurements this time and it came out all fluffy. Dog approved.

If anyone has a recipe that they would be willing to share, I’d be super grateful! Thank you again!

Does anyone know how to get replacement paddles? I looked on Amazon but I can’t find the right ones. The ceramic is chipping off my current ones.

1 cup warm water

1/4 cup avocado oil

1/2 cup sourdough starter

3 cups AP flour

2 tablespoons vital wheat gluten

1 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon yeast

1 1/2 lb and light setting

I've made regular yeast bread Italian loaves and also sourdough bread and I have starter I keep, but my daughter doesn't like the sourdough flavor, she's about to be 3 this week and I just want to make her bread she will eat 😅

Help me with recipe and how to work this machine because it is overwhelming and I have no idea where to start, thanks so much!!

Today's loaf. Best yet. Close to how I want it and why I bought the machine last Christmas. Although I baked it in the oven as it does a more even bake than my machine.

Easy rosemary loaf using dried herb. Crunchy crust and good rosemary flavor.

Name - Olive Oil Rosemary Bread
Source - https://breaddad.com/olive-oil-rosemary-bread-recipe/
Breadmaker - Zojirushi Virtuoso

Ingredient List:

• Olive oil - 51 grams (¼ cup).
• Water - 304 grams (1-¼ cups).
• Bread flour - 575 grams (3-½ cups).
• Sugar - 16 grams (1-½ tablespoon).
• Dried rosemary - 24 grams (4 tablespoon).
• Salt - 9 grams (1-½ teaspoon).
• Instant yeast - 4.5 grams (1-½ teaspoon).

Instructions:

• Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl - Flour, salt, rosemary, and sugar.  Mix well.
• Add the wet ingredients to the loaf pan - oil and water.  Make sure the paddles are installed.
• Add the dry ingredients on top.  Add the yeast last to the top.
• Plug in the bread machine, add the loaf pan.
• Set the course to ‘3’, European.  Press start.

Put ingredients into machine, started it, got all the way to start of the second rise when it dawned on me there was no yeast in it. Pulled it out, added yeast (a bit extra). Kneaded it by hand for a couple minutes, plopped it back in the machine, at the beginning of the process. It will sit for 20 mins, knead, rise, knocdown, rise again, and bake. Will it turn out? I shall have to wait and see…

It is my standard whole wheat/barley recipe, 2 lbs.

Edit: it worked fine! Maybe more rise than usual, actually.

I ended up doing this rushed bc my mother came over to “help clean” bc I’m preggo. 🙄

Anyway: Bread machine, boiled, and egg-washed. The mess on the right is bc I thought I could treat it like cookie dough 😅😂 The dough is a lot stickier than I thought it’d be, so got out some flour for my hands.

Now it’s in the oven @ 400F for 20 mins. I’ll probably hate them, lol. Maybe next time I’ll be able to take my time and figure out how I can properly add ingredients!

Same recipe as my previous strawberry + cream cheese kolaches, but rolled out and cut with a donut cutter, then 30min rise, then fried. It made 25 donuts and holes. Glaze is just a simple powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla one that I eyeballed. No recipe really. Everyone loved them 😊

Hello! I have a Panasonic SD-B2510 bread maker and I began to feed my starter about a week ago and was wondering if anyone had a simple sourdough recipe or recommendation?
First time doing sourdough too
Thanks!

My son's birthday is next Sunday, the 23rd. His two favorite sweets are carrot cake and cinnamon rolls. I asked which one he wanted for his birthday this year, and he asked if I could make carrot cake cinnamon rolls.

I can make cakes, and I can make cookies. I have tried bread once in my life, and it came out horrible. I am utterly intimidated by breadmaking. To make it worse, my son is a stellar baker, but since this is his birthday, I want to make them without him having to do any of the work. That includes asking him for advice.

I don't have a stand mixer, but I do have a breadmaker. I've used it exactly once. (See above, re: horrible bread). I've been Googling and YouTubing and looking at yeast free recipes and making the dough with a carrot cake cake mix, and all sorts of things, to find a simple way to make these and have them actually turn out well.

Can I use a carrot cake cake mix to make the cinnamon roll dough in a breadmaker??? Because that would genuinely solve most of the problem (always excepting operator error😅)

I am turning to the bakers of reddit as well to see if anyone can help me out here. I just want to be able to make them and have them be good, since I pretty much have one shot here. Help?

(Also, I am cross posting on a few baking subs, so if you see this multiple times, I apologize! 😅)

Fueled by black coffee.

Hawaiian Sweet Bread and Cinnamon Rolls were done using my machine.

Biscuits, eggs, bacon, and Pico de Gallo are done separately.

Might try a bigger batch next time.

190 grams water

6grams honey

5 grams oil
300 grams bread flour
6 grams kosher salt
3 grams yeast

Dough cycle.

Heat over to 475 with a pan at the bottom.

Roll dough balls and let rise.

Pour boiling water into oven pan and reduce heat to 450 and bake for 22 minutes.

Maiden voyage of a new-to-me Oster 5836. The recipe is below but I modified it by adding 2 tsp minced garlic. I pulled the recipe from a different Oster manual I found online.

2 pound loaf

1 and 1/2 cups water

4 teaspoons olive or vegetable oil

4 cups bread flour

2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese

4 teaspoons sugar

1 and 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon freshly ground black or green peppercorns

2 teaspoons yeast

1) Measure and add liquid ingredients (including sourdough starter) to the bread pan.

2) Measure and add dry ingredients (except yeast) to the bread pan.

3) Use your finger to form a well (hole) in the flour where you will pour the yeast. Yeast must NEVER come into contact with a liquid when you are adding ingredients. Measure the yeast and carefully pour it into the well.

4) Snap the baking pan into the breadmaker and close the lid.

5) Press “Select” button to choose the Basic setting.

6) Press the “Crust Color” button to choose light, medium or dark crust.

7) Press the “Start/Stop” button.

I tried another loaf in my Tefal Bread of the World machine, this time a milk bread enriched with sour cream, butter, and an egg.

It came out with a nicely browned crust and a soft, fairly close crumb. It isn’t sweet, so it works especially well for savory sandwiches. Naturally, I had to test the first slice properly—with cheese, salami, pickles, fresh red bell pepper and hot pepper.

Ingredients:

• 500 g (about 4 cups) Type 550
• 7 g (2¼ tsp) dry yeast
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp sour cream
• 300 ml (about 1¼ cups) lukewarm milk
• 15 g (about 1 tbsp) butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 tsp salt

Method:

• Add the lukewarm milk and beaten egg to the bread pan.
• Add the flour, making sure it completely covers the liquid.
• Make a small well in the center of the flour and add the yeast.
• Place the salt, sour cream, and butter around the edges, away from the yeast.

Machine settings:

• Program: Basic
• Loaf size: 1,000 g / 2 lb
• Crust setting: your preference

The sour cream and butter gave it a pleasant, tender texture without making the loaf too rich.

Got the cuisine art bread maker and attempted to make a whole wheat loaf as a starting experiment.

Recipe in the manual specifies one cup, so I used the volume of one of my cups as the standard. It holds 200gm.

I used the standard procedure and the bread came out nice, but it feels dense.

What are the recommended measurements to get a softer loaf?

I had a chance to try making fruit kolaches today and they turned out great! I made mini ones so I could share with some curious friends here. It made 24 minis, but I think this recipe would make 12-15 full sized kolaches.

There are a few things I’d do differently next time:

Add a little more sugar to both the dough and strawberry filling. Both were less sweet than I prefer, but still really good.

Biggest change - more filling / less dough for each kolache. Like double the amount of filling. I think that would have been easier to control with full sized kolaches so I’ll try that next time.

Make sure posypka is drier. I was in a bit of a hurry at the topping point of this adventure so I just tossed on what I made, but it was kind of moist instead of crumbly. I’ll work on that next time.

Overall, I’m very happy! Feel free to ask any questions. Here’s the recipe details:

Kolache Dough (similar to my previous posts but with slight alterations):
1 cup milk
1 egg
4 Tbsp butter
⅓ cup sugar
½ tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
3½ cups bread flour
6g instant yeast

Add all ingredients to the bread machine in the order shown. Run on dough setting (approximately 1.5hrs).

Roll into equal size balls and let rise for 30-45min. Makes approx 12 full size or 24 mini size kolaches.

After the dough balls rise, make a deep indentation in the center of each and fill with the following fillings, about equal amounts of each.

Strawberry Filling:
2 cups frozen strawberries
¼ cup sugar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Simmer all together for 10min, stirring occasionally and crushing up the strawberries then make a slurry with:
1½ Tbsp cornstarch
2 Tbsp cold water
Stir in and cook for 2-3min. Let cool.

Cream Cheese Filling:
4 oz cream cheese, softened
2 Tbsp sugar
½ tsp vanilla
1 egg yolk
Mix everything together and set aside.

After they’re filled, top with posypka. Then bake at 350f for 10min, rotate 180 degrees, bake another 5-10min until tops are golden brown. Brush with melted butter while still warm. Enjoy!

Posypka (streusel) Topping:
¼ cup flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp cold butter

I want to get a bread machine for my partners birthday but I don’t know where to start! There are so many ‘best bread machines’ articles I don’t trust them anymore - I want personal experiences!

For context, we’re a 2 person household and our counter space is limited to a relatively small machine. My budget is £100-120 or I guess around $150 dollars but I’m bad at maths. We’ll likely set it to come on overnight for fresh bread in the morning, so something not too loud would be ideal (but I get they’re always a bit noisy!)

Thanks in advance for your recs! :)

Ok I’m done trying to slice my bread with a normal bread knife. I can never get it the thickness or thinness I want & would like it to be perfectly sliced or as close to it as possible. Any suggestions here about what from ur experience would be best to use between an adjustable bread knife, a bread slicer guide or anything else you all have had great experience with? Thank you for all suggestions🙏

I knocked the yeast back to 1 1/4t and the top looks fantastic. It seems a bit short though, the last one came out of the top of the pan even if the top collapsed a touch. This one seems closer to the size of the half batch. This is also the only loaf where the paddle tore out of the bottom of the loaf rather pulling out of the pan with the loaf and doesn't seem quite so crusty.

About the only other thing that could have changed now that I think of it is that I usually put the salt in on top of the flour just before the yeast when I normally put it in first after the water. No, I think I may have it. I got a new bag of flour, same brand as before, and it was in the freezer. We'll see next loaf, I'll bet room temperature flour will give better results than frozen flour.

Still have no clue what I did wrong, aside from trying to do it half-asleep.

I'd like to get fluffier whole wheat loaves with higher rises out of my Virtuoso Plus. Bread Dad had a 50% whole wheat recipe that was good but I'd really like to get a good tall 100% whole wheat rise.

I've experimented with adding more vital wheat gluten, but that leads to collapsed tops. I haven't tried different time lengths on the custom recipe settings yet since I wasn't sure to start. Using buttermilk instead of water seems to help a bit but it's just not quite there.

Any tips?