Strawberry Kiwi Preserves
Now you can spread the classic flavor combination of strawberry and kiwi onto your fresh-made breads with this preserves recipe. Made with your Breadman bread maker’s Jam setting, these preserves have the perfect balance of flavors. The strawberries are sweet yet tart, and the kiwi complements it with its equally tart flavors. Some have even said that kiwi tastes like a cross between strawberries and bananas, which is another classic fruit combination. If you prefer your preserves to be less sweet, use only ½ a cup of sugar, or double the lemon juice. Enjoy with homemade classic white bread. › Continue reading
Sweet Potato Pecan Braid
With summer drawing to a close and fall quickly approaching, you may be ready to start planning your holiday season gatherings. Part of these gatherings includes comforting foods filled with the flavors of fall, like spices, sweet potato or pumpkin and pecans. This recipe for simple and mouth-watering sweet potato pecan braid combines all of these flavors and can be easily made with the help of your Breadman bread maker’s dough setting. Make this braided bread for Thanksgiving or any house party you may be invited to and enjoy all the compliments you’ll receive! › Continue reading
Pumpernickel Bread Recipe
Enjoy the hearty, slightly sweet taste of pumpernickel bread made with your Breadman bread maker. From Germany, pumpernickel bread is traditionally made with rye flour and gets its trademark dark color by being cooked at a low temperature for up to 24 hours. American versions recreate the classic flavors and color by using cocoa powder, coffee granules and caraway seeds for a close second to the long-labored original. Savor the deep and rich flavors with salty cured meats or smoked salmon for a delicious lunch or dinner. › Continue reading
Know Your Ingredients: Eggs
While commonly known world-wide as a food staple, eggs play an important role in bread making. The incredible egg, praised for being a “complete protein” in that it contains all nine essential amino acids, plays a duo-role in bread dough[1]. Added with other fats and liquids underneath the flour and yeast, eggs add both moisture and dryness to breads, acting as double duty. With this post, we’ll show you why you use eggs in some Breadman bread maker recipes.
Generally, breads that call for eggs in the recipe are airy, more tender and golden. A lot of the times these breads are qualified as “sweet breads,” in that they are toothsome, slightly sweet, and used for custard applications like French toast and bread pudding. Two well-known egg yeast breads are braided challah, a Jewish staple for the Sabbath, and brioche, a French bread known for its golden flaky crusts and high fat content. › Continue reading
Bread and Jam: The Perfect Duo
Enjoying a slice of piping hot homemade bread topped with jam is one of the greatest pleasures in life. Your bread maker takes the guess-work out of baking fresh bread, but did you know that it can also make fresh jam too? You never have to purchase jam or preserves ever again with the Jam setting on your Breadman bread maker.
Any preparation of fruit and sugar that is canned or stored, including jams, jelly, preserves, marmalade and chutney, are fruit preserves. Whether smooth and pureed, or chunky and seedy, fruit preserves are a popular condiment found across many cultures including British, Indian and American. Common in many pantries, jams go great with butter and bread for tea time or delicious on top of fresh waffles for breakfast. › Continue reading
Baking Terms Explained: Slashing the Dough
In the last Baking Terms post, we discussed egg washes and how it creates a professional finish to your home-baked bread. In this post, we’ll explain how slashing the dough is another finishing touch to make your bread professional and beautiful looking. This technique is to be used on shaped breads made on the dough setting of any Breadman bread maker.
But what is “slashing the dough”? If you’ve seen bakery artisan breads, you would have noticed the lines, grooves and patterns on the tops of the bread that brown and make a pretty crust. These lines not only add a decorative effect, but serve a purpose too. › Continue reading
Sweet Wheat Dinner Rolls Recipe
Classic dinner rolls add that special restaurant-like touch to any homemade meal. Making piping hot fresh rolls is easy with your bread maker, as the mixing, kneading and most of the rising are already done for you. This recipe uses the dough setting and can be made with any Breadman bread maker model. You can also pair these rolls with any of our preserves recipes for a great breakfast, snack or starter. › Continue reading
Know Your Ingredients: Sugar
Once so expensive and highly regarded it was known as “white gold,” the refined sugar we know today is a staple in bread making. Usually added underneath flour and away from the yeast in the bread maker pan, sugar serves a purpose by enhancing bread rise and flavor, increasing tenderness and helping to brown the crust. In this post, we explain the why and how sugar is used in your Breadman bread maker recipes.
Sugar in bread making isn’t just limited to refined white granules. You’ll also find recipes that call for ingredients with a high sucrose content like molasses and honey, as well as brown sugar, which is simply white sugar processed with molasses. But which bread recipes utilize sugar? › Continue reading
No More Holes: Collapsible Kneading Paddle
Home-cooks and professionals alike all love that their bread maker allows them to easily bake fresh homemade bread. You may too enjoy the variety of breads you can make without the work and elbow grease.
But in the past, one feature annoyed many: the holes on the bottom of the bread made from removing the paddle after baking. Before, you had to either live with the inevitable holes, or set the machine to pause at the beginning of the second rise and remove the paddles yourself. But pausing defeated the purpose of owning a bread maker; having to time, remove and reinsert dough are unnecessary inconveniences.
Now, with the Breadman 2-Pound Professional Bread Maker’s exclusive collapsible kneading paddle, you can say no more to holes! › Continue reading
Baking Terms Explained: Egg Wash
Fresh homemade bread is delicious on its own, but have you ever wanted to achieve that golden shiny crust you see so often in bakery breads? Using an egg wash on shaped breads made from the dough setting of your bread maker will add that effect.
Egg wash is a term to describe the glaze of egg yolk and/or white often mixed with water or milk that is brushed on top of dough right before baking. It is a good technique to use on breads such as dinner rolls, braided loafs or soft pretzels. But not all egg washes are alike—different combinations of egg and liquids will produce different finishes to your bread.