How to Convert a Bread Recipe to a Bread Machine
Homemade bread recipes can have long traditions in families. You might remember an aunt or grandmother baking loaves of fresh bread from scratch in her kitchen, but in today's hectic world, the time required to make homemade bread by hand leads many to discard their bread recipes. Bread machines ease the amount of labor required for a fresh loaf of bread. Simply put the ingredients into the kneading bucket and set the machine to do the work of the mixing, kneading, rising and baking. To have success using your bread machine to make traditional breads, you will need to adjust your recipe's ingredients and their amounts to fit the capacity of your machine. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Know the capacity of your bread machine: 1 lb., 1.5 lb. or 2 lb. Fill the kneading bucket with water in one cup increments, keeping count of the number of cups the bucket holds. Assume a one-pound machine holds two to three cups, a one-and-a-half pound machine holds three to four cups and a two pound machine holds four or more cups.
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Reduce the amount of total flour in your recipe to fit into your bread machine. Look at the amount of all the flours used in the recipe, even if the recipe uses multiple grains such as rye flour, wheat flour and rice flour. Use no more than two cups of flour in a one pound machine, three cups of flour in a one-and-a-half pound breadmaker and four cups of flour in a two-pound machine.
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Decrease the amounts of all other ingredients by the same proportion as you did the flour. For example, an original recipe requiring six cups of flour converted to a one-pound bread machine would reduce the flour by 2/3. Decrease all other ingredients by 2/3, so 1 tbsp. (3 tsp.) of yeast would become 1 tsp. of yeast; 2/3 cup (about 12 tbsp.) of warm liquid would become about ¼ cup (about 4 tbsp.) of water and 3 tbsp. sugar would become 1 tbsp. of sugar.
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Bring all the ingredients to room temperature, unless your recipe specifies otherwise, as in the case of adding 110 degree F water to activate the yeast.
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Put the ingredients into the bread machine in the correct order: liquids, fats (butter or oils), liquid milk, salt, sugar or sweetener, dried spices or seasonings, whole wheat flour, all other flours and yeast.
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Replace all of the white flour in the recipe with bread flour or add one tbsp. of vital wheat gluten to the recipe with the flours when putting the ingredients into the bread machine.
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Plug in the machine and set it for a normal loaf.
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Wait for your bread machine to do the work and listen for the timer to go off.
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Let the bread cool for 10 minutes in the bread machine pan before turning the loaf out onto a cooling rack to cool completely before slicing. Enjoy a homemade loaf of warm bread.
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Tips & Warnings
Alternatively, set the bread machine on the dough setting to mix and knead the ingredients. Remove the dough and shape it into any desired shape (rolls, pizza crust, baguettes or round loaves, and let rise. Bake as directed by your recipe in your home oven.
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