Looking for the impossible, 100% wholemeal breadmaker recipe

[MrsD'ville mkII]

Hi,

the booklet that came with our breadmaker suffered a mysterious accident when my niece came to stay, along with a few other household items Since then I've been trying to find a recipe for a 100% wholemeal bread recipe that doesn't include a mysterious substance called 'gluten flour' - ? The old booklet had a perfectly good straightforward recipe that I used for ages and that required only a blob of Vit C powder to give it a boost. Preghead has driven that from my memory and I just cannot find another straightforward, 100% wholemeal bread recipe. I've run out of white bread flour and actually - whisper it - bought a loaf yesterday

If anyone has such a recipe I'd really love it. Thank you

[StripyPixieSocks]

The bread recipe that I use is this:

4 cups Wholemeal Bread Flour
4 tbsp Milk Powder
4 tbsp Oil (I use 3 Sunflower and 1 Sesame)
3 tbsp Sugar (I use brown)
2 tsp Salt
1 1/4 tsp Fastbake Yeast
1 1/2 cups tepid water


I've never used Vitamin C powder but I am always generous with the yeast, it is quite a heavy loaf and I usually mix half wholemeal and half white for a lighter loaf but everyone has different opinions on bread I have found.

I always throw it in on a dough mix, then when it beeps take it out and shape it into bread tins and leave it to rise for another hour then bake (always throwing a couple of ice cubes on the bottom of the oven for extra 'oven spring' and it makes a lovely crust)

Hope it works for you :)

I love experimenting with bread, we rarely get the same loaf twice at the moment HAHA!

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Hi,

the booklet that came with our breadmaker suffered a mysterious accident when my niece came to stay, along with a few other household items Since then I've been trying to find a recipe for a 100% wholemeal bread recipe that doesn't include a mysterious substance called 'gluten flour' - ? The old booklet had a perfectly good straightforward recipe that I used for ages and that required only a blob of Vit C powder to give it a boost. Preghead has driven that from my memory and I just cannot find another straightforward, 100% wholemeal bread recipe. I've run out of white bread flour and actually - whisper it - bought a loaf yesterday

If anyone has such a recipe I'd really love it. Thank you

What mark is your breadmaker, Oh Great One?

[Green Aura]

My recipe is for "medieval bread" which I got off the BBC history website - it works perfectly in our breadmaker.

1.75 cups water
2tsp dried yeast
1.5tbsp sugar
2tbsp oil
4 cups wholemeal flour
1.5 tsp salt

That's the basic recipe and the order we have to put it in our machine. I believe others are the other way up.

Then we usually chuck in a couple of tbsp of seeds - whatever's open.

[Odsox]

(always throwing a couple of ice cubes on the bottom of the oven for extra 'oven spring' and it makes a lovely crust)

I have never heard of this trick, does it work better than a pan of hot water (steam) ?
I will have to look for the ice cube tray and give it a go.

[MrsD'ville mkII]

It's a Panasonic, something terribly swish like a Panasonic Bread Bakery or some such twaddle. I found a .pdf booklet on the internet but it's not the same one.

When I found my booklet sat in a soaking wet flowerbed I was tempted to dry it out but I knew it wouldn't survive being cracked open again. I'll try some of those recipes, thank you everyone

[MrsD'ville mkII]

Oh and um, I know this is useless of me, but how much exactly is a cup? I've never quite got the hang of them. Thanks

[Green Aura]

Sorry, we've got a cup measure.

1 cup = 250ml or 225mg according to t'internet.

[StripyPixieSocks]

(always throwing a couple of ice cubes on the bottom of the oven for extra 'oven spring' and it makes a lovely crust)

I have never heard of this trick, does it work better than a pan of hot water (steam) ?
I will have to look for the ice cube tray and give it a go.

It does the same thing I think... the ice instantly turns to steam seems to work better for me than a pan of hot water (which I tried first) :)

[Shirley]

panasonic 100% wholemeal

large
1 tsp yeast
500g (1lb 2oz) wholemeal flour
1.5 tbsp sugar
25g (1oz) butter
1.5 tbsp milk powder
1.5 tsp salt
.25 tsp vit c powder
360ml water

xtra large (I tend to follow this recipe cos it takes same length of time for more bread!)

1.25 tsp yeast
600g (1lb 5oz) wm flour
1.5 tbsp sugar
25g (1oz)butter
2 tbsp milk powder
1.5 tsp salt
.25 tsp vit c powder
420 ml water

wholewheat bake program of 5 hours (yeast in first!)

[MrsD'ville mkII]

Hurray! Thank you!

[Millymollymandy]

That's pretty much what I do but what on earth is the Vit C for? I never noticed that in that recipe book before - but then again I stick everything on the basic setting as our wholemeal flour is brown. If that makes any sense!

[Odsox]

That's pretty much what I do but what on earth is the Vit C for?

It's to stop scurvy, which you appear to need scratching your head like that

[Shirley]

Vitamin C to the Rescue! By using vitamin C, Ascorbic Acid, in your dough you will help to counteract the negative effects of Glutathione. Vitamin C will not only help prevent the gluten bonds from breaking down; but will help repair gluten bonds that have already been broken. Vitamin C helps sustain the leavening of bread loaves during baking. It also promotes yeast growth causing your yeast to work longer and faster and helps produce the acidic atmosphere in which yeast grows best.

http://www.aaoobfoods.com/breadmakingtips.htm

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Shirley,

You got there before I did!