Application Guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- America’s New Bread Box
- Orientation
- Batterie de Cuisine: Know Your Bread Machine
- Making Bread
- Daily Breads: White Breads and Egg Breads
- White Breads
- Egg Breads
- One-Pound Loaves
- Pasta Doughs from Your Bread Machine
- Earth’s Bounty: Whole Wheat, Whole-Grain, and Specialty Flour Breads
- Whole Wheat Breads
- Rye Breads
- Specialty Flour Breads
- Multigrain Breads
- Gluten-Free Breads
- Traditional Loaves: Country Breads and Sourdough Breads
- Country Breads
- Sourdough Breads
- All Kinds of Flavors: Breads Made with the Produce of the Garden, Orchard, and Creamery
- Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads
- Savory Vegetable and Fruit Breads
- Cheese Breads
- Mixes and Some Special Breads Created from Them
- Stuffing Breads
- Circle, Squares, and Crescents: Pizzas and Other Flatbreads
- Sweet Loaves: Chocolate, Fruit, and Other Sweet Breads
- Breakfast Breads
- Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls
- Chocolate Breads
- Holiday Breads
- Express Lane Bread: No-Yeast Quick Breads
- Jams, Preserves, and Chutneys in Your Bread Machine
- Appendix 1 Bits and Pieces: Crumbs, Croutons, Crostini, and Toasted Appetizers
- Appendix 2 To Eat with Your Bread: Spreads, Butters, Cheeses, and Vegetables
- Appendix 3 Resources
- General Index
- Recipe Index
Dried Fruit for information on adding extra ingredients. Sometimes, if I want to vary
the color or taste of a bread, I do add the extras, such as onions and nuts, at the begin-
ning of the cycle so that the kneading action smooshes them and they more or less dis-
integrate into the dough.
VARIETY
This was a common feature on the older machines. The Variety cycle runs about the
same length of time as the Basic cycle, and has a beep and displays a signal to “shape”
so that you can remove the dough after the second rise, fill and shape it by hand, and
then return it to the baking canister for a final rise and the baking. You could use this
cycle for a cinnamon swirl or monkey bread. This is a fun feature. If your machine
does not have it, you can program for the Basic cycle, press Pause to interrupt it after
Rise 2, remove the dough and shape it, and then return it to the pan and press Start to
resume the cycle and bake the bread.
DOUGH
This setting may also be known as the Rise or Manual cycle. This is the setting to use
when you want to mix and rise a dough in the machine, then remove the dough, shape
it by hand, and bake it in your oven. Toast master has the shortest Dough cycle at 1
hour and 3 minutes, 1 hour and 30 minutes is the average, and Panasonic’s is the
longest at 2 hours and 30 minutes (this includes Preheat). Doughs prepared on this set-
ting are intended to be shaped into traditional loaves or in special ways, such as clover-
leaf dinner rolls, egg twists, pizza, croissants, bread sticks, or bagels, and baked in the
oven. You can adapt your favorite recipes for this cycle, with respect to using quanti-
ties that will fit in your machine (see Bread Machine Baker’s Hint: The Right Amount
of Dough for Your Machine for information about maximum capacities). Remove the
dough at the beep and proceed to shape as directed in the recipe. Within this cycle is
sometimes the further choice of Basic Dough or Quick Dough.
WHOLE WHEAT
This cycle is also known as the Whole Grain or Basic Wheat mode. This setting allows
heavy whole grain flours a nice long kneading time and an extra, and slightly longer,
rising time as compared to the Basic cycle, producing a lighter, higher loaf. This is re-
ally nice for all sorts of whole wheat breads made with more than 50 percent whole
grain flour. It should definitely be used for 100 percent whole wheat or whole-grain
breads, and for breads containing specialty flours, such as barley or spelt. Within this
cycle is sometimes a further choice of Basic or Quick. On many of the newer ma-
chines, there will be a beep during this cycle to identify when to add any extra ingredi-
ents, like raisins or nuts. Models that preheat at the beginning of some, but not all, of
their cycles generally do preheat in the Whole Wheat cycle.
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