Club Breadmakers

[michyms]

pixie, thanks for the recipe. Where can I get wheat gluten and lecithin? I also use the Breville machine and enjoy making bread of it very much.

[corneyAmber]

michyms:

pixie, thanks for the recipe. Where can I get wheat gluten and lecithin? I also use the Breville machine and enjoy making bread of it very much.

I have bought wheat gluten from Phoon Huat before. Not too sure about Lecithin though.

[pixiedust]

Same as maid, I bought wheat gluten from Phoon Huat. They are kept in refrigerators.

Lecithin, I buy the organic brand ‘origins’ - available in major NTUCs.

michyms, glad to "meet" a fellow Breville user.

[michyms]

pixie,nice meeting you too. :celebrate:


Thanks for the tip, I also use the Origins brand of organic wholemeal flour for my cakes and bread. It's the most economical organic wholemeal flour around and it's so fine that it's great for even some cakes and muffins. Makes it healthier for all my kids

maid, thanks for the advice.

[Yappy]

Dear all,

I am a newser in this thread, hope to find some help from you all expert breadmaker here!
I have bought a Severin BM3989 breadmaker machine in July;
I follow the recipe given but so far never success at all based on 5 times that I baked. My hubby & parent in law said the bread tasted like ‘fatt kuih’ than a bread… Feel so hurt…='(
I don’t have any experience in baking, is there any Severin user can advise me… Pls… Help…

[michyms]

Yappy I was using a Severin before my Breville. Did you put the ingredients in in the recommended order? And what kind of yeast are you using?

[Yappy]

Hi, michyms,

Thanks for your reply!
Yes, I did follow the recipe on how much Ingredients to put. As the salesman said just put all in & start the machine! I bought the dry yeast fm ntuc fairprice.
Guess, is not tat easy, right?

[michyms]

Yappy, think have to follow a certain order - liquids first, followed by flour, followed by salt and yeast last. You can call Severin and ask them why this is happening and ask them to check the machine... Another friend of mine had the same issues with Severin too, in the end she stopped making bread My Severin was fine, but it died after 1 year... sigh

[Yappy]

Huh?! I Thot Severin machine is good & easy to use…

It can last for a year nia?!
Dun Noe eat Shd I do abt the machine now… Want to stop trying like your friend aldy… =(

[pojo]

Hi Yappy


If you set the timer for the bread to be ready in the morning, you have to make sure that the yeast does not touch the water at the time you make the preparation. To do this, after adding water, form a small volcano with the flour which rises above the water. At the top of the volcano, then add the yeast. This way, the yeast only touches the water when the breadmaker start to churn the dough at the right time.

Of course if you don’t set the timer and make the bread straight away, there is no need to make sure the yeast don’t touch the water.

Another possible reason I can think of is that you have put in too little sugar. Cutting down sugar below the recommended amount will also cause the bread to not rise as much.