Guest Post: Saving Time with the Breadmaker

I make-up the dry ingredients for bread and pizza dough.  I put them in bags and then put all blue twisties on the bread and yellow on the pizza bags (and/or label them with B or P) and put them in the freezer.  At night we can just grab a bag, throw it in the breadmaker, add the wet ingredients and put it on time bake.  Smells SO good to wake up to!  It saves lots of time and is SO convenient. 


Thanks, Alice!  I will have to try this.

Best Breadmaker Bread Recipe

We got a breadmaker for a wedding gift when we got married and we used it for about 6 years, but when we moved and I got a Kitchen Aid stand mixer, I didn't have room for the breadmaker so I got rid of it (I had never found a really good recipe that I liked).  But now that I have a pantry (which I love!), I have room to store a breadmaker.  I picked one up for 5 bucks at Goodwill last week and yesterday I made the BEST white bread in the breadmaker.  Here's the recipe:

White Bread For The Bread Machine

From allrecipes.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 3 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 3 cups bread flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast

Toss it all in the bread machine and 3 hours later, you've got bread!

The only issue we had with this bread was that Chris thought it was too sweet.  But it was the airiest, tenderest bread machine bread I've ever made.

Also, I found white whole wheat flour at Meijer yesterday.

I'm going to try it with this bread recipe and make it a bit healthier.