[UPDATE 03.2019] added a Brioche recipe.
I recently bought a bread machine, an Unold 8695 Onyx, and I’m very, very happy with it. Simple machine, nothing fancy (whenever I hear of appliances that are “connected”, “internet enabled” or, god forbid, “on the blockchain” I run away) but great value for money and gets the job done, very well.
The manual is excellent, with detailed timing tables and recipes which I fully recommend. That said, I did get the recipes that I liked most -the humble white bread and the farmer’s bread- and customized them a bit.
These are the ingredients, in the order which I put them in the bowl:
Brioche
| Ingredient | For 600 gr bread |
|---|---|
| White flour (Zopfmehl, type 405) | 390 ml |
| Salt | 3/4 teasp. (4 gr) |
| Sugar | 2 tblsp. (40 gr) |
| Vanille sugar | 1 pkg (8 gr) |
| Whole egg | 1 |
| Egg yolk | 1 |
| Yeast, fresh | 1/2 cube |
| Milk | 160 ml |
| Butter | 80 gr |
Important note: put everything in the bread maker bowl, in that order, except the milk and the butter. Then heat the milk and the butter just slightly (do not boil!) until the butter is almost melted. Then pour the milk-butter mix in the bowl over the other ingredients.
Use the Sweet (“Hefekuchen”) or Quick (“Schnell”) program, size 1 (“Stufe 1”) and light crust setting.
White bread
| Ingredient | For 500 gr bread | For 800 gr bread |
|---|---|---|
| Water | 230 ml | 300 ml |
| Salt | 3/4 teasp. (4 gr) | 1 teasp. (6 gr) |
| Honey | 2 tblsp. (40 gr) | 2.5 tblsp. (52 gr) |
| Wheat semolina (or Corn polenta) | 100 gr | 126 gr |
| Whole wheat flour (Ruchmehl) or light whole wheat flour (Halbweissmehl) | 20 gr | 30 gr |
| White flour (Weissmehl, type 550, preferably with vitamins) | 280 gr | 356 gr |
| Yeast (if fresh yeast is used, use 1/2 a cube in both cases) | 5 gr |
7 gr (1 package) |
Farmer’s bread
| Ingredient | For 800 gr bread |
|---|---|
| Water | 320 ml |
| Leaven (Sauerteig; in CH, I can only find leaven powder in Coop) | 10 gr (1 package) |
| Salt | 1 teasp. (6 gr) |
| Butter or margarine | 20 gr |
| Honey | 2.5 tblsp. (52 gr) |
| Light whole wheat flour (Halbweissmehl) | 400 gr |
| White flour (Weissmehl, type 550, preferably with vitamins) | 100 gr |
| Yeast, fresh | 1/2 cube |
For both of them, I then use the “Quick” (“Schnell”) program, with light or medium crust. 1h 40min later, it’s ready.
Enjoy!
Dot Jim 