Converting Bread Machine Recipes
to the Old Fashioned Method

Helen Newton wrote:
Glenn, How does this work made with so-called "primitive" methods, eg mixing bowls, electric mixers and conventional ovens? Not all of us on the list need, want, or can afford a bread machine.
Helen, Who lives alone and buys bread, on average, once a fortnight.

Helen any recipe for a bread machine should work just fine using old fashioned methods. In fact, you don't have to be quite as precise in your measuring of the ingredients. If you do this by hand don't get carried away and add too much flour.

The dough should be slack (on the wet side). I bake most of my bread in my oven. For most bread machine recipes bake at 350 F. for about 30 minutes.

Bread should be 190 to 200 F. when the interior is checked with a thermometer. Or use the old fashioned way and thump the bottom. If the sound is hollow, it's done.