Today is Home Made Bread Day

The origins of this Day are shrouded in mystery, but its purpose and benefits are obvious. The invention of the bread-maker has taken a lot of the effort out of baking, meaning that there is no reason why everyone shouldn’t enjoy home-made bread, which is often of much higher quality than the stuff you can buy in a shop. Home-baked bread is often healthier, higher in fibre and lower in salt and additives than commercial varieties, and the recipe can be modified to suit the maker’s tastes, with grains, spices or other additions.

You really don't need a bread-maker though. I've been making bread for years but not as often as I have recently. I can't remember when we last bought a loaf.

 

The trouble with making your own bread, is that there are no preservatives, so you have to eat it all the same day

 

Ah well, not necessarily the case. The longer you leave bread to prove the longer organic acids develop and these make it keep much longer

So if you make a bread and only let it prove for an hour or two, I agree, it tastes great but next day it tastes dull.

If you leave the same bread to prove for 5 or 8 hours then knock it back and set it to rise it will really last for 3/4 days. It will also taste more interesting and slightly sour, these are the organic acids, so part way to sour dough

Sounds like a long time, but all I do is mix it on the morning and when I come back in just before tea I finish it off

You’ve got to use your loaf sometimes

 

And the bread I make is great toasted

 

I used to make a lot of bread but Mrs Norris said it had a negative effect on her waistline so I've not made it in a while

 

I like making bread, its very therapeutic.

 

I would love to make my own bread, become the Paul Hollywood of Cambridge but I need a backer as I don't have the dough.

 

Brought up with the smell of freshly baked bread...both my Nan and my Mum made it on their Yorkshire range.
As soon as Mothers Pride came on the scene, my mother never baked bread again.
To their generation it was just another chore.
Break making is for people with too much time on their hands, although that's a lot of us at the moment.

 

...and the bread maker ends up at the back of the kitchen cupboard...

 

Did you need to add yeast?

 

Not true, we use it all the time. Next time you buy a loaf read the ingredient list, soya flour and a whole host of preservatives some of which has links with child behavioural problems.

 

Ours gets used loads
You can’t whack fresh bread

 

Maybe my comment was a bit too subtle!

I didn't quite rise to the occasion.

 

That's a bit harsh. I allow mine to sleep in the bedroom.

 

Prove it!



(See what I did there? Do I win £5?)

 

No. But you can enter the Prize Draw for a Hotpoint Twin-Tub

 

Nice