This is a case where I "ng kam sum" which means "not satisfied". Since I started playing with my bread machine, I have yet to get the right recipe for soft bread with my machine. Of course the latest attempt was using bread improver but babe pointed me to Yochana's Cake Delight's blog, with specific reference to her Roti Keset. Wah.. the bread looks so cottony soft that I decided to give it a try. I was not going to attempt the full roti keset which Aunty Yochana did as I would be too embarrassed when the bread turn out looking nothing like her Roti Keset but what I did was to use her dough recipe and added raisins and almond slivers to the bread.
My sole intention was to see if my bread machine could turn out a bread very close to Aunty Yochana's as it was my theory that hand made bread will always have a better texture and bread machine-made breads will always be a close second only, at best.
I used the exact ingredients for the dough as Aunty Yochana except for the margarine. I didn't have margarine at home. Instead, I used shortening. I have reproduced the list of ingredients here and have placed it in the order of loading them into the bread machine.
Ingredients
130g of cold water
2 large eggs
75g of shortening (or margarine)
300g of Bread flour (sieved)
100g of Plain flour (sieved)
20g of milk powder
1tsp salt
75g of sugar
11g of Instant Yeast
100g of golden raisins
100g of almond slivers
All the ingredients (except for the raisins and the almonds) were placed into the bread machine pan and I selected Menu Option 3 for wholemeal grains. I did that as I had to add the raisins and the almond only when the machine started on the 2nd kneading cycle.
My opinion? This is the best tasting and the best bread texture I have gotten out of my machine todate and I am quite happy (finally haha). However, I still think that handmade bread will always have the superior texture over machine-made bread. But I love fresh bread (oooo especially the smell of fresh bread) but lazy to do all the work, the bread machine is the closest thing to fresh bread for me :)
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9 comments:
OH Y!!!! Hahha..
Your raisin bread looks very very fluffy wor. Niceeeee......! The more experiments you did with your bread machine, the better your breads are looking now huh. Haha. Great job! :p
wow you get better and better at making bread ^_^ so cool!
hi supes and rita. for this raisin bread, the credit goes to the originator of the recipe, Aunty Yochana and the Kenwood Bread Machine. Me, I am just incharge of weighing the stuff and putting them eat.. and of coz, eating it all up afterwards ;)
thanks for sharing half with me, will have it for breakie tomorrow, yay!
you are most welcome babe :). hope you like raisins and almonds. ran out of walnuts teehee :p
Still baking bread ? Wow, I haven't bake a bread for quite some time. Keep trying, you'll find the right recipe soon.
i have to say its very nice la. i had some with peanut butter and some with butter. both also nice. btw, hubby ask me to compliment the chef wor :p he had his butter and kaya!
min: i think this recipe that i am using now is one for keeps. but i will continue to baking as i love the smell and taste of freshly baked bread :)
babe: i am glad that you and your hubby liked it :). i had the remainder this morning. kept mine in a cling foil on the dining table. after so many days, it still kept its texture and softness. i am so going to keep this recipe :)
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