Food ‘n Drink

My Dad’s been making his own bread for years, and after a bit of thought I finally decided to give it a go myself. We bought a breadmaker (you didn’t think I was going to do it by hand did you?! ) and a couple of packs of bread mixes. Okay, so maybe bread mix packs are cheating, however for 65p I can make 2lb of bread, enough for us for about 4-5 days. It costs around double the price to buy it from the shops. Once I try using flour, yeast and the other ingrediants I’ll be able to save money even more.

The breadmaker we bought is the Morphy Richards 48245, which is £60 on Amazon, however at present it’s £48 from Argos until 16th January 2009. It’s not too big and easy to use. I’ve only used it once so far (I’ll update after a month of usage!), however even my first attempt was pretty good. The bread is crispy on the outside and soft and gorgeous on the inside! I think with my next attempt I’ll use a bit less water than they say, just so that the bread is a little firmer, as it’s hard to slice when it’s so soft!

Next step is to get something to slice bread, however I may have to wait a while for that However, if you were thinking about making your own bread then why not? It only takes 3 hours to do everything then maybe an hour to cool. I definitely don’t think this will be one of those kitchen gadgets that gets left to gather dust

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