Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: Beetroot queen on September 28, 2008, 19:44
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In lakeland they had a really expensive one £100 and a cheaper one at £50
Worried that it maybe a five minute wonder I opted for the £50 one, if I really get on with it I will upgrade for Christmas or my birthday. :D
So I decided on the one I wanted and the lady said we have one without box that is an ex display you can have for £20 and we will even throw in 10 packs of basic bread mix as well
so I went for it and here was the result last night :D
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s184/judey_wooo/IMG00230.jpg)
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Mmmn, looks lovely. What did it taste like?
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fantastic no problems with it, it was lovely and suprise suprise its all gone, kids thought it was so much better than any bread they had ever tasted :lol:
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It's always the same. By the time anything gets to the supermarket and the into your mouth flavour generally is an afterthought or artificial with a ton of preservatives. Isn't this the better alternative?
Going to try some various flours?
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want to try all of the different types so just need to get the recipes as the booklet that came with it was pants and only lists white and brown bread
looking forward to experimenting with DD as she is heavily into cooking at the moment :D
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Tip - try seed loaf. Lovely stuff. Going to try a fruit?
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Tip - try seed loaf. Lovely stuff. Going to try a fruit?
Okay where do I find a recipe or is it just a google type answer LOL
I will try anything as long as its not with cheese
I am allergic to cheese, dont ask people just dont get it because I can eat butter and drink milk. I am just strange :oops:
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Try your local library ours has a few books on bread machines.
Loaf looks lovely BQ !
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Will try the bookshop :D
I dont do libraries, have a problem with pre-owned, smelly, dirty books LOL its fine I have the drugs to make it better :oops: :lol:
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how much do you think making your own bread costs per loaf?
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The cost will depend on whether you buy your own flour, or get a pre-mix (some can be really expensive); it's not cheaper than getting the supermarket's own brand loaves but is far tastier.
My Mum invested in one of those electric slicers (not a knife, but one with a circular blade) for cutting her home-made loaves - and it makes such a difference to have regular thickness slices rather than the doorsteps I end up with if cutting with my own fair hand.
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Will try the bookshop :D
I dont do libraries, have a problem with pre-owned, smelly, dirty books LOL its fine I have the drugs to make it better :oops: :lol:
Thats OK I'm the opposite buy :shock: I may faint at the thought :lol:
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One hundred bread machine recipes by Vicki Smallwood is very good.
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Will try the bookshop :D
I don't do libraries, have a problem with pre-owned, smelly, dirty books LOL its fine I have the drugs to make it better :oops: :lol:
Dear lord.. some of my bestest cheapest books come from those places. Library's are indispensable. I love the smell of a musty book.
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I have a bread maker but don't use it as often as I should. This has made me get a loaf in though. I think it costs far less to make the bread as you would have to compare the price to that of a fresh unsliced loaf from the bakers or bakery department.
The taste of course is the best. :)
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how much do you think making your own bread costs per loaf?
I had a breadmaker, but the mixng paddle inside always got stuck to the loaf, so I had to cut it out each time and spoilet the loaf. then decided I had to cut down a bit on leccy, so I gave it away and now just mix my bread dough in my Kenwood which only akes a few minutes and make my own.
I used to like the Wrights Ciabatta mix, but in less than a year it has gone up from 48p to 75p for 500g, so now I just get the Tesco strong bread flour and do my own. Its 48p for 1.5kgs and a few pence for whatever else I put in it. I put a little olive oil in instead of other fats as that helps keep the loaves moist longer.
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I just realy need to go fine one now! Must admit I love lakeland for the out of box deals! got a electric hot plate 2/3 off at Christmas last year, great for the caravan saves me gas.
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Folks seem to prefer the £99 Panasonic for a trouble-free machine and I asked for that one but got a cheapo instead and the results from it using the recipe supplied were ok but better using premixes. I got some good premixes from Lakeland and the Wrights ones are good too.
My loaves get stuck on the paddle too :roll:
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out of curiosity to see how much flour recipes call for i googled it
http://www.carrsbreadmaker.info/recipes/index.html
thought the recipes might come in useful for others
even gives you different ratios for different makes! http://www.carrsbreadmaker.info/recipes/wholemeal_flour.html
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Just a quick tip - to get free yeast just ask for it at large supermarkets with a bakery. Old tradition... or just a handy one :)
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Just a quick tip - to get free yeast just ask for it at large supermarkets with a bakery. Old tradition... or just a handy one :)
how much does it cost or are you saying they would give it to you free, surely not in this day and age. :shock:
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Free, isn't it great?
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Free, isn't it great?
FREE :shock: I cant believe that LOL
is it the shop we dont mention
I am worried they will laugh at me :oops:
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Lets see how the filters react to the following list:
It works with:
Sainsburys
Asda
Morrisons
Dunno about the shop we don't dare to mention, or get sent to mordor by Sal.
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Lets see how the filters react to the following list:
It works with:
Sainsburys
Asda
Morrisons
Dunno about the shop we don't dare to mention, or get sent to mordor by Sal.
Let me get this right, I poodle up to the bakery and ask for some yeast LOL excuse the shock but i thought we were in the middle of a credit crunch :shock:
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Yup. They'll give it to you. The girl at asda just breaks off the end of a big block for me. Usually enough for one to two loves of bread. It's always handy to have a prop with you if you need... like a bag of their own brand flour :D
If they refuse just say 'oh such and such megastore always do, it's a tradition you see' if it's a young and inexperienced lad or lass.
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Yup. They'll give it to you. The girl at asda just breaks off the end of a big block for me. Usually enough for one to two loves of bread. It's always handy to have a prop with you if you need... like a bag of their own brand flour :D
If they refuse just say 'oh such and such megastore always do, it's a tradition you see' if it's a young and inexperienced lad or lass.
Going to get hubby to have a go LOL I am too chicken :lol:
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WOOT just won one on freecycle, dont know what make but worth a try since its free!!!
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OK I am a breadmaking queen, I love my breadmaker, I lust after a panasonic, and when my old Morphy Richars one died (started chucking black oil into the bread) I was ready to buy one.
But I rang them to ask how much a new pan would be (so I could pass the machine onto a friend)
and they offered me a new machine (new model) for half price. so I couldn't justify a pansaonic for £100, when I could get a perfectly good MR one brand new for £25. (and a new pan for £12 for my mate to have a whole machine)
I use the Bread machine about 4-5 times a week, I make all sorts in it. I think the key is finding worktop space to keep it out.
I use mine weekly for pizza dough, the kids love it, and adding their own toppings etc.
I make homeade bread evry few days.
I make bread rolls if we have friends for lunch or to go with soup, (makes less mess than slices of bread)
I also make currant buns and recently made brioche which was sooooo delishious!
I also make jam in the blackberry season (has Michaelmas gone yet?? can we still eat blackberries?)
Yes you can use fresh yeast, which is indeed free, my kids LOVE asking for it! but you cannot set it to timer, and it is a bit more faffy, as you have to activate the yeast before adding it.
My thing is to buy the extra strong flour, and using 1 cup of that to 2 cups normal bread flour, it makes a very light loaf.
3 cups flour, 1 and 1/8 cup warm water, 1 and 1/2 tspn yeast 1 tspn salt, 1 tabelspoon sugar, glug of oil.
set to dough or normal loaf and it will be fabulous!!
If makeing brown or wholemeal bread crush a vitamin C tablet or 2 in teaspoons and add to the water, it helps imrove the texture no end, and stops the bread being so heavy.
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I posted this recipe on the cooking forum but some of you may not have seen it. It's my husband's recipe for Cranberry and Rosemary bread which is wonderful. Very Christmasy but good at any time.
One cup of cranberries, halved or quartered (fresh better than dried, but if they have to be dried avoid sugary ones!)
1 cup of cranberry juice
2.5 tablespoons of olive oil (or other oil or butter)
1.25 teaspoons of salt
2.25 tablespoons of sugar
2.5 tablespoons of skimmed milk powder – optional
2 teaspoons of dried rosemary (or fresh, if you have it!)
3 cups of strong white bread flour
1.25 teaspoons of dried yeast
Makes a 1.5lb loaf - follow instructions on your breadmaker
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my sister in law keeps trying to GIVE me her bread machine but I keep declining, I'm an old fashioned lass, I love cooking things in the oven, I got some old hovis tins from a second hand fair (probably fake) trouble is I am now worried about the lecky cost so need to get organised and make a casserole at the same time...or just more bread !!!
I do have a kitchenaid food mixer that my OH bought me for my birthday a couple of years ago...it's the best thing ever...and has a dough hook...I would never have dared spend that much, I had been tracking second hand ones on ebay but they always sold for more than I could afford so I was gobsmaked to get a brand new one...in red...god I love that man :oops:
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Make all our own bread here. If you want organic flour then keep a close eye on the supermarkets who sometimes compete. Tesco was recently 55p per 1.5kg for Doves Farm organic wholemeal and is currently 69p per 1.5kg organic white bread flour which is considerably cheaper than Tesco own brand organic flour. Supermarket "normal" bread flour is usually around 48p per 1.5 kg.
Speciality flours such as malthouse, oat etc seem to come in 1kg packets and prices are around 1.20 -1.50.
I tend to micx organic white with a speciality flour to get good flavours at low cost.
Also if you add a dash of olive oil the bread texture is lovely.
Its worth experimenting with recipes I think.
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My bread (made by hand) costs about 75p for a loaf. That's organic, chemical free, freshly baked. I don't factor in my time as I regard it as recreation. It's far superior to anything you could buy for 75p.