CookWorks Signature Breadmaker Recipes
CookWorks Signature Breadmaker Recipes
CookWorks Signature Breadmaker Recipes
For those who have lost their copy of the manual, here it is. Please note that
all recipes in this post is owned by Cookworks Signature.
Water 290ml
Sugar 2tbsp
Oil 2tbsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Dry milk 3tbsp
Bread flour 3 cups
Dry Yeast 2tsp
Specialty Bread
Program: French
Program: Basic
Program: Whole-Wheat
Program: Basic
Program: Sandwich
Program: Sweet
Program: Basic
Program: French
Program: Quick
Program: Basic
Program: Basic
. Yeast has to be the fine powdery stuff with added ascorbic acid - typically, Sainsbury's or Tesco sell
either their own brand, or Hovis or Allinsons, in packs of six or eight 7g sachets. My usual recipe uses
less than half a teaspoonful of yeast, so a box of sachets lasts ages.
b. Tescos or Sainsbury's own-brand STRONG white bread flour works perfectly. If you like brown
bread, cut white flour with about a third of regular coarse, medium or fineground wholemeal flour.
c. If you want to experiment, try using some stale or leftover lager or ale instead of water - but if it's
high-alcohol (which gets baked off anyhow!) remember to add a little extra yeast, about a quarter of a
teaspoon more than recommended, or your bread won't rise properly.
d. Use salt with LARGE crystals, like Rock Salt (Tidmans) or Sea Salt (Maldons or Saxo "flakes"), and
leave the crystals whole - the fine, powdery common-or-garden tablesalt has other additives in it that
can give the bread a "metallic" taste.
e. So many home bread recipes include "powdered milk" as an ingredient (don't ask me why...!); if
you have anyone who's got a sensitivity or allergy to milk products, simply omit the milk powder. I
find it makes little difference to the final loaf whether you add it or not, so why bother?
f. Leave the loaf in the pan, in the machine on its keep-warm cycle, for about 30 mins after cooking
has completed - this allows everything to cool so it's a little less like handling a lavastone as you try to
extricate the loaf from the pan, and also allows the kneader to "sweat" out of the loaf.
And last but not least, my standard recipe for our daily brown bread in this household:
Addition of a teaspoonful or so of one or more of the following (available in most supermarkets near
the cakes/baking section) adds variety, crunch/body and flavour, if so desired: poppyseeds,
linseeds(brown or golden), sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds.