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
cycle is invaluable when a cycle ends and a loaf is not quite done baking. You can pro-
gram Bake Only to continue baking in increments for up to two hours. If you are doing
lots of different types of baking, you will use this cycle.
QUICK BREAD
This setting, also known as Cake, is for non-yeast batters leavened with baking powder
or baking soda, such as quick breads and loaf cakes. This cycle mixes the ingredients
(although older machines require that the mixing be done by hand and the batter
poured into the pan without the kneading blade installed) and bakes without any rise
time. There is an option for further baking at one-minute intervals. This cycle works
well with packaged commercial mixes for cornbread, quick bread, and pound cake. On
some models you have to program the bake time for this cycle; with others it is auto-
matically built into the cycle.
PROGRAM
Some machines have a function that lets you manually change the cycle times to what-
ever you want them to be, letting you increase a kneading, rising, or baking time as
needed. You can also create your own recipes and program in all the times for them,
and the machine will keep the instructions in its memory. This is a feature that I find
people use only when they have become very proficient with the basic baking cycles.
(Also called Personal Baker.)
JAM
Some of the new machines have a setting for small-batch fresh fruit refrigerator jams
(not jellies), with or without pectin. This cycle can also make chutneys and fruit but-
ters. To prevent leakage and overspills, make jam only in a machine that is designed to
do so. Be sure to read the chapter on jams in this book (Jams, Preserves, and Chutneys
in Your Bread Machine) and the guidelines it provides; there are strict proportions to
respect. Skeptical? This is a great feature, so give it a try. It makes wonderful jam.
OTHER CYCLES
Some machines have Sandwich or Tender cycles for breads with a finer texture than
those baked on the Basic cycle. Use these cycles for recipes that contain more fat and
eggs, ingredients that make a softer bread. The Batter Bread setting, a new addition to
Breadman machines, is for making especially moist yeasted breads that don’t form a
traditional dough ball. As machines become more sophisticated, continue to expect
more features. Some machines now offer a Pizza Dough cycle, a Bagel Dough cycle,
and a cycle specifically for gluten-free breads (which can also be made on the Quick
Yeast Bread or One Hour cycles in other machines). Pasta Dough has its own cycle, a
subcycle of the Dough cycle, in some Oster machines (but can easily be made on the
Dough cycle in any machine designed to handle heavier doughs).
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