nom!

[alexseanchai]

this bread recipe seems to meet with our collective approval, though I need to remember less rosemary next time. Also, the bread machine's bake cycles may not work (we don't know, that's a later experiment; circumstantial evidence argues that the machine is junk, but the facts aren't all in), but the dough cycle obviously does, and getting the bread from heaps of ingredients to ready for the oven is the hard part of baking anyway.

But you know what else we can do with a bread machine dough cycle, that frankly isn't worth the effort (imo) without?

homemade pizza

(the 1994 original of the bread machine pizza dough cookbook I'm used to is $100+ used on Amazon. I didn't check condition. the 2005 update, in Used - Very Good condition, no less? $5. and the current edition of the bread machine bread cookbook that's first in that series? (I have to specify because there are at least six by that title, distinguished by Roman numerals.) new for $9. they are both mine now or anyway on arrival. MWAHAHA.)

Comments

[dreamsrundeep]

I use my bread machine every week to make pizza dough! I agree! The dough cycle is really all you need it for. Square bread that comes out of the machine is weird. Baking it in load pans makes it look so much nicer!

[kara_mckay]

I've always been curious about bread machines. When I was very little, Ma sometimes talk about them with the neighbor lady, who was lukewarm on hers. Ma, who has never owned one, of course had strong, negative opinions about them. I've never tried one, but I've often thought it might be nice to have something that, as you say, turns ingredients into oven-ready dough at the least.

[azurelunatic]

Whee!