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Hi Mammachef! Yes, I have the new Panasonic SD 253. It really is excellent: not noisy when mixing the dough, easy to use & easy to clean, & produces fabulous bread. Thanks for the recipe PRR. And welcome jio, but if you put your message under a seperate posting in Recipies, you may get a better response.

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Dried Yeast 6/7g sachet
Strong flour 3 cups
Sugar 3 tsp
Salt 1 and half tsp
Butter 1 and a half tsp
Water 1 and a quarter cups

My short cut keys for 1/2 and 1/4 produced %signs!! ½ ¼

After using a bread maker for a few years now I have tweaked the recipes, doubled amounts for larger loafs, left out milk when cooking on the timer and have run out of powdered milk and this recipe is the one which by trial and error I use the most.
If used on a long setting 4 hours on my Panasonic it comes out with a flakey crust and very light texture. If cooked on the short cut setting about 2 hrs it gives and much smoother, softer loaf.

Dried Yeast 6/7g sachet
Strong flour 3 cups
Sugar 3 tsp
Salt 1%C2%BDtsp
Butter 1%C2%BDtsp
Water 1%C2% BCcups

The cups and tsp measures were the ones I got with the machine.
I continue to experiment and have some failures but this one work s quite well with 'stores own' flour rather than the branded ones!

I tried Paul Hollywood's Mincemeat braed in the machine but... too much liquid I shall keep trying.

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I apologise for my reply guys .. I'm PH bread recipe mad at the moment and whilst my fingers do all the talking ... the brain is en gaged elsewhere

Hi Keith,

Well done on your bread. What Panasonic have you got? is it the one where the bits go in the lid and drop in automatically?

Mine is one of the first out and I really think they have progressed a very, very long way. Mine rarely turns out ok and so I end up making bread by hand as we do in the restaurant every day. But at home, I'd rather use a machine if I thought it was reliable. I have read all the post on the bread maker equipment threads but hearing your news, I thought I'd just ask what one you've got. After all Santas coming soon and since Jeni won't share her six pack, bow tied secretaries, I'm going for the bread maker instead, fingers crossed.

Thanks Gang! Debbie, my Panasonic certainly IS a sexy bit of machinary!! ;-)

Debbie!

Welcome to the wonderful world of breadmakers Keith .. may all those baked in it rise to the occasion :P

Sounds wonderful Keith! I have been hand making bread for a while here as I left my bread machine in UK. But I have been using ordinary plain flour as I couldn't find any strong bread flour. Some loaves have been quite good but mostly they are too dense. Today I found proper bread flour, yipee!

I am also baking cakes. I found cakes rather hit and miss in the Aga I had in England but now I have an electric oven and I have discovered a new passion for baking! I'm turning into a Domestic Goddess, heaven help Keith's waistline!!! (that's my Keith, not you, bread-baking Keith!) We will all be queueing for Weight Watchers at this rate though.

Nice one Keith!

Home made bread, well ok then bread made in the bread maker (which is what I use as well) is wonderful and the smell as it bakes ............
mmmm!!!

Enjoy!

Well done Keith. You've now made me feel very hungry......I could just eat a slice of that warm bread with some butter on it.