A lush, hot, with a beautiful ruddy crust - this is how home white bread comes out of the bread maker. Bake it with a smart device will not be difficult.
General principles for making white bread in a bread maker
The main thing in working with the bread machine is to follow the recipe not only in the number of ingredients, but also in the sequence of their addition. The basic ingredients of plain white bread are wheat flour, yeast, water, salt, sugar, and vegetable oil. It is necessary to put them in the tray of the bread machine correctly: all liquids are the first, followed by dry ingredients.
Before you put products for the dough in the tray, you can grease it with butter, then the crust will be especially beautiful and fragrant. Then the procedure looks like this: pour water, vegetable oil, add salt and sugar, pour the flour in a slide, make a small depression in it, put dry yeast in it.
Bread recipes usually use instant dry yeast (fast-acting). It is necessary to add them necessarily in the dry flour which is not covered with liquid. Also, you should not allow the mixing of yeast with salt, this will prevent the bread from rising well.
To make white bread especially airy, sift the flour through a sieve before putting it in the bread maker.
If butter is used in the recipe, it must be melted or cut into very small pieces. Eggs should be shaken with a fork before adding.
Water for kneading dough is usually used at room temperature. But for some types of bread, for example, for a quick white water you need to warm up to 40-50 degrees. You can take milk instead of water, it improves the taste of bread and the color of the crust.
Bread machines allow you to bake products with various additives. You can put raisins or candied fruits, greens, garlic, slices of chopped olives or olives, finely chopped nuts, seeds, poppy seeds, grated carrots or cheese. All these ingredients are added after the main mixing of the dough, approximately half an hour after the start of the program. The fact that you can lay supplements, the device usually reports a beep. White bread is baked on several programs. In bread makers of different manufacturers they have their own names. But the essence is the same. There is a “Basic” mode, the whole process of kneading, fermentation and baking takes about three hours or a little more. On the “Fast” (or “Ultrafast”) mode, ready-made breads can be obtained in one and a half to two hours, depending on the model. There are separate modes for baking sweet and French bread. You can also choose the size of the loaf and the desired color of the crust, from light to dark.
When working with a bread machine, special cups and spoons are used to measure ingredients, they are included. Most often, a measuring cup is designed for 230-240 ml of water, 140 grams of white flour or 125 grams of white sifted flour. If the breadmaker has another measuring cup, for example, 200 or 300 ml, then you can recount and use the recipe not in cups, but in grams and milliliters. But measured teaspoons and tablespoons in bread makers, as a rule, correspond to the usual ones, but without a slide.
Important! When the dough is being raised in the bread maker or baking has already begun, do not open the lid, otherwise the bread may settle.
In the following recipes, the number of ingredients is calculated on a loaf weighing 700-750 grams.
White bread in a bread maker - basic recipe
Ingredients
270 ml of water;
three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
one and a half teaspoons of salt;
two and a half tablespoons of sugar;
three cups of flour (in terms of grams - 420);
teaspoon dry yeast.
Method of preparation
1. Grease the tray of the bread maker with a piece of butter. Pour water, oil. Put the salt and sugar. Sift flour through a sieve. Pour it into the tray, on top of the yeast.
2. Place the tray in the bread maker, select the “Main” program.
3. After the signal about the completion of the program, gently remove the finished bread from the hot tray, cover with a towel and leave it to cool.
Quick white bread in bread maker
For this recipe, you will need warm water (40-50 degrees), in addition, quick bread will require three times more dry instant yeast than normal.
Ingredients
250 ml of warm water;
one egg;
three tablespoons of vegetable oil; one and a half teaspoons of salt;
one and a half teaspoons of sugar;
three cups of flour (420 grams);
three teaspoons of dry yeast.
Method of preparation
1. Break the egg, shake it.
2. Pour the water, oil, egg, heated to the desired temperature into the buttered bread pan of the bread machine, lay salt, sugar, sifted flour and yeast.
3. Select the “Quick” mode. With the finished bread, we do the same as in the basic recipe.
White bread in a bread maker on buttermilk
If desired, instead of buttermilk, it is permissible to take kefir or yogurt. The ready-made bread has a light sour taste and a crust of a beautiful brown color.
Ingredients
One and a half cups of buttermilk (360 ml);
a teaspoon of sugar;
a teaspoon of salt;
three cups of wheat flour (420 grams);
teaspoon dry yeast.
Method of preparation
1. Put the ingredients in the tray, as described in the basic recipe for white bread, but instead of water, pour buttermilk, kefir or sour milk.
2. Select the mode “French bread”.
White bread in a bread maker with greens and garlic
Very fragrant bread. You can take for it both fresh greens, dill will be especially good, as well as dried herbs: rosemary, basil, thyme. Just do not be tempted to put more garlic and greens than indicated in the recipe, otherwise the bread will start to slightly bitter.
Ingredients
One and a half cups of water (360 ml);
one tbsp of olive oil;
one and a half tablespoons of sunflower oil;
three cups of wheat flour (420 grams);
three and a half tbsp whole wheat flour;
one teaspoonful of sugar, salt and yeast;
greens - one and a half tablespoons;
garlic - one and a half tablespoons.
Method of preparation
1. Grind garlic, finely crumbled dill.
2. Pass a piece of butter on the tray of the bread machine. Pour water and oil. We pour out the usual white flour first, then the wholemeal flour. Put in the corners of the tray salt and sugar. Make a small hole in the flour, fall asleep yeast.
3. Put the bread maker on the “Main” mode. After the signal to add additional ingredients, put greens and garlic. After completion of the program, we get bread. You can smear the crust on top with olive oil, cover with a napkin, then with a towel and leave it to cool.
White bread in a bread maker with cinnamon and raisins
Such breads with sweet raisins and fragrant cinnamon can be served for tea.
Ingredients
240 ml of water;
three art. spoons of vegetable oil;
a quarter cup of sugar (50 grams);
a teaspoon of salt;
three cups of white flour (420 grams);
one + 1/8 teaspoon of dry yeast;
three quarters of a teaspoon of cinnamon;
100 grams of raisin seedless.
Method of preparation
1. Raise the raisins thoroughly, let them drain excess liquid.
2. Put all the ingredients in the tray in the order indicated in the recipe, with the exception of cinnamon and raisins.
3. Choose a special program for sweet bread. We are waiting for the signal. After it we lay the raisins and cinnamon, you can additionally gently mix them in the dough with a wooden spatula. At the end of the program take out the bread, cool.
White bread in a bread maker with candied fruits
This is not just bread, but a beautiful sweet treat. Multicolored candied fruits make it bright, and a small amount of brandy gives spice.
Ingredients
240 ml of water;
175 ml of milk;
two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
four tablespoons of sugar;
two teaspoons of salt;
two + 3/4 cups whole-wheat flour (approx. 390 grams);
a teaspoon of dry yeast;
tablespoon of brandy;
eight tablespoons of candied fruit;
two tablespoons of coconut chips.
Method of preparation
1. Lubricate the tray with a piece of oil. Pour water, milk, butter. Put dry ingredients in order.
2. Select the cooking mode “Sweet bread”.
3. After the breadmaker’s beep, put candied fruits, coconut chips, pour a tablespoon of brandy. You can additionally mix the dough with a spatula.
4. Ready-made bread served as a dessert, sprinkled with powdered sugar on top.
White bread in bread maker with honey
In this recipe, milk is used instead of water, and sugar is replaced by honey. This significantly affects the taste and aroma of bread.
Ingredients
240 ml of milk;
one and a half tablespoons of vegetable oil;
one egg;
a teaspoon of salt;
one and a half tablespoons of honey;
three cups of flour (420 grams);
teaspoon dry yeast.
Method of preparation
1. Pour milk, butter, and beaten egg into the greased container of the bread machine. Put the salt. Add honey. Complete all the flour and yeast. 2. Honey bread is baked in the “Sweet” mode. We take it out and cool it just like any other white bread.
White bread in a bread maker with carrots
Option for lovers of bread with healthy additives. It is well suited to the soup or vegetable salad.
Ingredients
80 ml of vegetable oil;
one egg;
160 ml of warm water (40-45 degrees);
one and a half teaspoons of salt;
three and a half cups of white flour (approx. 500 grams);
one and a half teaspoons of dry yeast;
a cup of grated carrots (125 grams).
Method of preparation
1. Wash and clean the carrots, rub it on a grater.
2. Shake the egg with a fork.
3. Place the vegetable oil in the bread pan tray, pour out the egg. Then come warm water, salt and sugar, sifted flour, dry yeast on top.
4. For this bread, the “Basic” mode is suitable. Rub the carrot into the tray after the beep.
White bread in a bread maker - secrets and tricks
· Yeast must be stored in the refrigerator, they deteriorate in a warm room. If the dough rises badly, it is often the damaged yeasts that are to blame.
· When cereals are used in the recipe, the dough is too thick, for better results, you can change the order of laying the ingredients: first, flour and yeast, then everything else.
· Do not overdo it with the amount of yeast! Bread in this case will acquire an unpleasant smell and taste.
· Bread can be baked on a delayed start. However, it should not be used if rapidly perishable products are used: milk, eggs.
· Do not put a lot of salt! It slows down the fermentation process. Without salt, the finished loaf will be more.
