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Bread Machine Tips #3

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   Getting more for your dough: Baking bread in the bread machine is only part of the story. The untapped and unpromoted potential as well as sheer magic of the bread machine is in its ability to provide batches of proofed yeast doughs with which to become creative. How might this differ from a traditional mixer with dough hook, you ask? In a couple of ways: firstly, the bread machine is an enclosed container so a floury, messy kitchen is never a deterrent to an afternoon's baking. Two, a bread machine is the perfect proofer for doughs: a warm, moist environment, covered and draft-free, cradling the multiplying yeast and attracting the odd wild yeast as well.(Incidentally, the more you bake - bread machine style or otherwise, the more wild yeast begin to congregate in your kitchen, attracting to what is perceived as a conducive atmosphere. Over time, straight doughs, sour dough based or sponge-initiated, take on more flavour as they mingle with these visiting spores).

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   Mixer or handmade doughs require the oiled bowl, wet kitchen towels and an environment such as a oven with the oven light on - more work and more clean-up. No, I wouldn't chuck my adored stand-up mixer. It does larger batches of dough and can also make cake, cookies, and pie crust but.... sometimes it's nice to produce scads of Parker House Rolls or a small Sally Lund without it being a whole production number. Bagels (and yeast doughnuts too) in particular, take a lot of handling (ring-forming, boiling and baking) so getting a head start by having the dough made for you is a real plus.