Negative Space: bread machines
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- Bread Machine Maintenance
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“While you will not find this in your bread machine manual, it is a good idea to periodically oil your bread pans kneading shaft(s). This helps keep it moving freely, it helps kill any rust that may have formed and it will even help make the machine run quieter.”
- The Bread Machine Cookbook V• (paperback)
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Like the other volumes, this includes an extensive section at the beginning with hints on using bread machines and on how various ingredients affect the bread. The sections are: white breads; fruit and vegetable breads; herb breads; multi-grain breads; and dough cycle breads (rolls, buns, pizza, monkey bread, pita pockets, that sort of thing). (Donna Rathmell German)
- The Bread Machine Cookbook IV• (paperback)
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This installment focuses on “whole grains & natural sugars”. None of the recipes use white flour or processed sugar but instead a lot of whole wheat and rye, a bit of oatmeal and cornmeal, and a smattering of lesser-known flours such as quinoa or 7/9/12-grain mixes. Sweetening is added using honey and maple syrup, as well as “fruit juice concentrate”, maple/date sugars, and occasionally actual fruit. (Donna Rathmell German)
- The Bread Machine Cookbook III• (paperback)
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This volume focuses on more unique breads, such as spiced breads and fruit breads. There’s a fennel bread, a lemon-ginger bread, a chocolate-banana bread, a white chocolate macadamia bread, and more rye breads. This book also adds a toppings and fillings chapter, for things like orange-coconut filling, cranberry butter, and gingered peach spread. (Donna Rathmell German)
Varying a Syrian recipe from Helen Corey, this anise and mahleb-flavored bread is perhaps the best tomato sandwich bread I have ever tasted.
Donna Rathmell German’s little cookbooks, from the Nitty Gritty collection, are a great companion to your bread machine and a great lesson in using bread machines to make bread.
If you have a table saw or chop saw, making a bread slice guide is a snap.
To be honest, I’m not sure the whole wheat bread from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest is even doable by hand. But I have managed to modify it so that it works very well in a bread machine.
The Black & Decker B6000C rises again. Pun intended. The West Bend 47413 three-pound breadmaker is a nearly-exact duplicate of the late, great B6000C.