About 6 years ago I took over her bread maker from a friend for a shot. Incidentally, they are new not really expensive. But this aside.
Since then, I regularly bake my own bread and since I'm sick at home, every 3 to 4 days. It will stay good about that long.
And sometimes bread is on offer and then I buy it. But so often, bread is not on offer.
But actually, for a long time, I haven't really been satisfied with the smoulness of my own bread. Often too dry and have already experimented a lot, but couldn't find the solution. Added eggs, more butter, less water etc. It all helped nothing.
The suits of Koopmans or G'woon's flour came out of my bread machine well. HOW? I didn't understand.

A few weeks ago, I was tired of it. I don't want to eat dry bread anymore. So I figured out to bake soft rolls. The bread maker did the kneading and I headit in it by making balls out of it and baking it in the oven.
Well, the recipes seemed so simple, but I couldn't even do that. The sandwiches got hard in the oven.
And the fact that I am not a kitchen princess was confirmed once again. 🤣 (although banana bread and cake do really well for me)

But I didn't give up. In one of the recipes for the soft balls, the addition of 'oil'. Eureka I thought. I'm going to try that out on bread baking.
So said, done. Last Monday I reduced the recommended amount of water (from too much moisture the bread falls in) and supplemented it with oil. 30ml oil. There suddenly came out a fine bread, but still a little bit on the dry side.
Up to try two. I did that the day before yesterday.
Now I use cheap flour 49 ct per kilo, but actually I didn't really like the bread last Monday. Was it a lot more plentiful, but the taste was lagging behind.
By the way, I have to say that the Lidl (Belbake) packs of flour taste very good and are not too expensive either.
But rrrrrr. a whole loaf from the store is a 3/4 bread from my machine. Then this flour is' expensive '. When I say it out of my head, around 55ct for 500 grams. It is available in 3 flavors.
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All right, so on Friday back to the bread bin. With 'simple' wheat flour. To get a little extra flavor to it, I have nicked everything extra.
Dried herbs such as parsley, basil and that kind. But also garlic powder and to replace the sugar a load of corn.
The amount of oil increased to 50ml.
And that bread was even more plentiful than Monday's, but still not entirely to your liking. But the taste!!! That's good with all those herbs. I'll never step away from that again.

So tomorrow night is bread baking day again.
I'm going to increase the oil even more to 75ml.
The juice of the can of corn should I weigh ff and therefore reduce water on it. Had not used corn juice last Friday.
I'll nod a load of herbs in it again and wait and see.

Below is the recipe as I use it according to the bread maker's booklet with the changes mentioned above. Should you also get a craving for your own bread. 😉

Medium bread:
75ml oil
Water 235 ml (minus the juice of the corn, which is not yet in this calculation)
Herbs (what you like)
I replace sugar with a small can of corn.
Flour 500 gr.
Dry yeast about 5 gr

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On my machine (see header photo) I used 'whole wheat' first, but now the program 'white bread', because it is wheat flour. In whole grain of the Lidl, I use basic'.

Don't have a bread maker yet, but are you thinking about buying one? Maybe these websites will help you get started.
What may be important: (you can indicate it on the site of picky)
is removable baking tin (I even think it is a must)
Just like kneading and rising
timer
And that you can still add ingredients in the meantime.

Bread maker test of Picky
Tips when buying bread maker from Broodmachinereceptennl
and another website with tips
Tips when buying bread maker of the Molenwinkelnl

To be continued.

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