French Countryside Bread Bread Machine Abm Recipes

Steps:

• Add ingredients in the order listed to your bread machine, or follow the manufacturers directions for adding ingredients.
• Choose the basic cycle with regular or light crust. Rapid cycle will work, too.

Steps:

• Measure all ingredients into pan in order given.
• Use French setting and medium or dark crust (depending on your preference and your machine).

Steps:

• 1. Measure and add liquid ingredients 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 teh 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 French setting.
• 6. Choose your crust color and press "start".

Steps:

• Place all bread dough ingredients in bread machine and select dough cycle.
• When cycle is complete, remove dough and roll into a 12"x15" rectangle on a lightly floured board.
• Roll up from long side and pinch seam to seal.
• Fold ends under.
• Place seam side down on greased baking sheet that has been dusted with cornmeal.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise for 45 minutes.
• Make 4 diagonal cuts with a sharp knife across top of bread.
• Bake at 375° for 25 minutes.
• Beat egg white and water; remove bread from oven and brush with egg wash.
• Return to oven and bake an additional 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Remove pan from Bread machine and place on a electronic kitchen scale, and zero scale.
• Weigh 210ml (210ml water weighs 210g) and rest of ingredients carefully into the pan, in the order listed (if you have the time, do have a read through of the notes :).
• Select French Loaf cycle (or Wholewheat/Wholemeal cycle if no French Loaf cycle available) and select crust/firmness if necessary required for your machine. (I feel that this loaf benefits from a fairly firm crust - as long as it's not burnt!).
• Start Machine.
• Notes:.
• Time listed is for the actual baking part of my machine's French Bread cycle. They vary by manufacturer.
• I took this recipe originally from a machine which had a 6-hour French loaf cycle but my machine makes a French loaf in 4 hours. My mum's does it in 2 3/4 hours. I've found that the results are pretty consistent regardless of machine, although you occasionally need to increase/decrease amount of yeast to marry the recipe to the 'rise' component of your machine's cycle.
• My machine has an un-overrideable 20 minute pre-heat before it does anything whatsoever whenever I use this cycle, so I need to take the following precautions so that the yeast doesn't make contact with any liquid before kneading starts which I recommend to you:.
• When pouring the water do try to pour gently trying to avoid slashing up sides.
• When adding the flour, do try to cover the water completely if possible.
• When adding the yeast, if necessary/inclined try making a dip (or 'well') in the top of the flour and carefully pouring the yeast into the dip/well.
• If using yeast in sachet form it's worth measuring it onto a teaspoon first and holding some of the sachet (depending on sachet size).
• Here in Europe most of our cooking is weight-based rather than volume based.
• A set of electronic kitchen scales with 1 gram graduations can be quite cheap if you hunt around and more than any other cooking and baking they really come into their own when it comes to bread-making, although I usually still use spoon measures for salt and yeast, and for liquid oil when I use it. Gives bomb-proof results, every single time!

Steps:

• If you have to proof the yeast first, proof it in the sugar and water in the bread machine's basin for 10-15 minutes or until foamy; then mix the other ingredients together and pop it in for the Basic Medium or Basic White cycle.
• If not, just throw everything in, hit the Basic Medium or Basic White cycle for a 1-lb capacity, and kick back and let the machine do its work! The 1-lb loaf yields about 10 large slices.
• For 1.5-lb loaf, use 1 cup water, 3 tablespoons oil, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, 3 cups bread flour (3 TB vital wheat gluten + 3 cups AP flour) and 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast.
• For 2-lb loaf, use 1 1/3 cups water, 1/4 cup oil, 1/4 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, 4 cups bread flour (4 TB vital wheat gluten + 4 cups AP flour), and 1 tablespoon active dry yeast.