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Well bung somfink in to hold 'em together, Barrett! It's all very well for you to say that, but having been lulled by Ant 'n' Mart into thinking Sir Nigel being an almost superhuman genius &c &c must know what he is talking about I didn't think to question the recipe let alone augment it with what seemed to me a fairly obvious ingredient. Must not William Butler Yeats have been talking about Slater's tenuous fishcakes when he wrote the immortal words Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;? |
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« Reply #2056 on: 02:32:04, 30-04-2008 » |
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Highly recommended, and with the increase in food prices it works out quite a bit cheaper than shop-bought bread - and a LOT cheaper than anything of comparable quality. Obviously there's the initial outlay of buying the machine - but it will pay for itself at some pont...
An ignoramus (who is nonetheless rather impressed by the endorsements on this thread, and by the idea of domestic bliss as captured and sealed in the fresh smell of early-morning bread) asks: Don't you have to buy, erm, ingredients, too, from time to time? And don't they cost quite a bit? |
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« Reply #2057 on: 08:52:56, 30-04-2008 » |
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Yes, tinners, but if you get one of the Nick Shadow Inc models (they don't cost you an arm and a leg) the ingredients too cost almost nothing. You can pick them up anywhere and you get the most wonderful Stoneground bread in return.
What I like most about the breadmaking machines I have seen is that they give birth to loaves with the most endearing little navels in their tummies. Terribly organic and Earth Mother. It must make you feel like Demeter each morning. Do they all do this?
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #2058 on: 10:10:41, 30-04-2008 » |
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I was all for buying one a couple of years ago, but having been told that the kitchen was already awash with gadgets, that would have been the end of it save for the fact that a neighbour was upgrading and offered us her old machine. It does indeed create omphalic loaves, GG, and tisnow, the ingredients can range from pricey down to economical: the premixed continental packs from LIDL are an excellent example of the latter: two substantial loaves for less than a quid, and verging on the nomtastic.
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« Reply #2059 on: 11:06:18, 30-04-2008 » |
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So you do do dough, Ron Dough. two substantial loaves for less than a quid
... including the electricity? Although I'd happily agree that the heading towards nomtasticness would trump that. |
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« Reply #2060 on: 11:45:08, 30-04-2008 » |
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I most certainly do do dough, GG, and furthermore was so doughing long before the arrival of the baking machine.
The LIDL mix is 89p at present, and the machine economical on power, so I'd estimate a maximum of £1.20 for the two....
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« Reply #2061 on: 11:53:21, 30-04-2008 » |
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That seems pretty economical Ron, particularly bearing in mind that supermarket bread is about to go up by 10%. I eat very little bread and when I do it's either wholemeal soda bread or Irish wholemeal wheaten (both under the Paul Rankin label). Only a small loaf but £1.29.
Can you do 'speciality' breads in it as well or just 'normal' loaves?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2062 on: 12:07:18, 30-04-2008 » |
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This is a basic machine, Anty, so it doesn't do fancy stuff, though the more expensive ones do. Soda bread's dead easy - you can even bake it in a microwave, just put the mixed ingredients in a glass bowl: doesn't take long at all.
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« Reply #2063 on: 12:31:07, 30-04-2008 » |
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I used to make soda bread Ron but didn't realise you could cook it in a microwave so I will try and find some timings/heat settings for it. I only wondered about the speciality breads because they are just so darned expensive to buy! Perhaps I'll make some on the weekend and then I expect I will come over all Earth Mother, barefoot and pregnant  I confess I don't use my microwave for 'proper' cooking at all, in fact it rarely gets switched on. |
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« Reply #2064 on: 12:57:29, 30-04-2008 » |
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Ours is used for heating wheat and cherry-stone packs, plates and rice, Anty: that's just about it - oh, and popcorn for the bairns: I've not made soda-bread up here ever, it was a down south thing.
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« Reply #2065 on: 19:18:59, 30-04-2008 » |
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It's all very well for you to say that, but having been lulled by Ant 'n' Mart into thinking Sir Nigel being an almost superhuman genius &c &c must know what he is talking about I didn't think to question the recipe let alone augment it with what seemed to me a fairly obvious ingredient. Do give Mr Slater another chance though, Richard. That is a rare failure on his part. Can't say I've tried the fishcakes (whichever they were) but he's otherwise pretty infallible. (Like the sound of Herr what'sisname's lamb and savoy wraps. A tad more detail, when you have a mo?) |
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« Reply #2066 on: 19:26:53, 30-04-2008 » |
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Ah, martle x undici dodici tredici. Welcome back! I was beginning to think you'd eloped downriver with Alistair H ...  |
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« Reply #2067 on: 19:30:51, 30-04-2008 » |
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Like the sound of Herr what'sisname's lamb and savoy wraps. A tad more detail, when you have a mo? Here for krautophones is the recipe online. I shall of course offer a translation as soon as I have time, if desired. |
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« Reply #2068 on: 21:30:19, 02-05-2008 » |
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Has anyone here had any runins with asafoetida? I saw some of it in the supermarket today, hadn't heard of it before and decided to go for it (there was a recipe on the back of the jar) The recipe was very nice, which rather enticingly involved cooking some lentils in water and coconut milk. MMMMMM. |
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« Reply #2069 on: 21:58:14, 02-05-2008 » |
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Has anyone here had any runins with asafoetida? I saw some of it in the supermarket today, hadn't heard of it before and decided to go for it (there was a recipe on the back of the jar) The recipe was very nice, which rather enticingly involved cooking some lentils in water and coconut milk. MMMMMM. Yes, it's excellent and useful stuff is it not. |
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