Bread Machine Guessing Game
Now that we have a (borrowed) bread machine, I’ve been experimenting with plain white (non-wheat) bread. The idea is to perfect the basic recipe so I can play around with it and add other things to the bread.
Luckily, this bread machine has a “super fast” cycle that makes a small loaf in just under an hour, which is perfect because I don’t waste as many ingredients and I get fast results: the mystery of whether or not it works is resolved in record time.
So far: FAIL.
Yesterday afternoon, I did my first loaf with half soy flour and half rice flour. It came out solid, with nicely browned crust. But the inside was weird: dry and kind of flaky. Neither of us were happy with it.
So today after getting back from the gym, I put in ingredients for a new loaf with just soy flour. It’s not coming out of the pan very easily. It kind of fell apart when I tried to turn it out of the baking pan, and the rest of it is still sitting in there. Agus actually laughed when he came home from work and saw it. We ended up breaking pieces off of it to accompany lunch. The verdict: great flavor, great texture (soft and moist), but the falling-apart factor is pretty bad.
I really didn’t want to add corn flour to this because I didn’t want to make a corn bread, but I will probably try half soy, half corn for the next time. I also have garbanzo flour which I have been wanting to try, but haven’t built up the courage to do so just yet. Maybe I’ll do half soy, a quarter corn, and a quarter garbanzo. Will blog results once they come out. And of course, once I have a usable recipe I will share it.
I just got a bread machine at a garage sale for $5!!! They told me it works perfect, only that they didn’t have the instructions manual… so I’ll check on the web and see what I can find. I’ll report results!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Check out: http://www.manualsonline.com/
Let me know how it goes. I used to have one back when I lived in Mexico and still ate wheat flour. I used to have so much fun making bread. My goal is to come up with a good non-wheat bread substitute.