Our bread making experience

JL loved to take bread to school. I have been thinking to get one for long time. I heard a few people who tried Tesco brand and it works well. Robinson was having member sale for Kenwood breadmaker with free Kenwood Digital Weighing Scale for RM 599. However, the price was too dear for us that at the end on 15Aug2011 night, we went to get Tesco brand for RM199. We had to go to 2 Tesco to get it because the first Tesco was out of stock.

We made our first wholemeal bread but it was hard which we suspect the wholemeal flour we bought was too much wholemeal content or maybe the yeast was not the right one. Our second one worked well but it was way too healthy for us that the JL ate with lots of butter and baked beans while AL ate with sugar free marmalade jam. Yes, we finished up all…

Our third attempt was a mix of wholemeal flour with white flour. We added some raisins that later we realize the recipe’s amount for raisins were insufficient. This time the texture was much better. Thanks to Lian for her tips.

Our fourth attempt was last nite when we tried for banana bread. The bread was ok and much softer but should put more bananas even though we had already increased the amount. Besides that, the water should be cut too.

We are still learning and learning. The kids love to make their own loaf of bread… Hopefully, when we got our oven, we can bake small buns….

Overall, I am happy with the breadmaker…plus the bread is much healthy and dense than purchase bread. Since there are no preservatives, the bread needs to be consumed within 3-4 days or deep freeze immediately to prolong. However, the size is just ok and usually can be finished up within 3-4 days….