Sultana Ginger Loaf Bread Machine Abm Recipes

SULTANA & GINGER LOAF (BREAD MACHINE ABM)

Steps:

• Weigh the loaf ingredients into the bread machine baking pan in the order listed. The vitamin C is optional and is added only to serve as a 'Flour Improver'.
• Replace pan into bread machine and select a program suitable for a white fruit/raisin bread.
• At the beep, (usually about five minutes before the end of the final kneading,) add the sultanas/ginger.
• When finished, place on a wire rack to cool and immediately brush top and sides with a beaten sugar/milk glaze and sprinkle lots of oatmeal and ground ginger. Although optional, the glaze at the least is recommended as it will seal the crust helps it to keep fresher for longer.
• 12 slices is approximate as it depends how thick you like the slices :) Makes a 1 1/2Lb Loaf.
• Just a thought -- -- the quantity of caraway seeds is a 'conservative' guess btw as I poured some into my hand and added what I felt looked about right. It's important ('specially for me!) to go easy on the caraway seeds though as they have such a strong flavour.

BASIC WHITE BREAD FOR BREAD MACHINE ABM

Steps:

• If you have to proof the yeast first, proof it in the sugar and water in the bread machine's basin for 10-15 minutes or until foamy; then mix the other ingredients together and pop it in for the Basic Medium or Basic White cycle.
• If not, just throw everything in, hit the Basic Medium or Basic White cycle for a 1-lb capacity, and kick back and let the machine do its work! The 1-lb loaf yields about 10 large slices.
• For 1.5-lb loaf, use 1 cup water, 3 tablespoons oil, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, 3 cups bread flour (3 TB vital wheat gluten + 3 cups AP flour) and 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast.
• For 2-lb loaf, use 1 1/3 cups water, 1/4 cup oil, 1/4 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, 4 cups bread flour (4 TB vital wheat gluten + 4 cups AP flour), and 1 tablespoon active dry yeast.

MOLASSES, SULTANA AND OATMEAL BREAD (ABM / BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Weigh the main ingredients into the bread machine drum in the order listed.
• The ginger is optional and to taste (I love ginger so I'm a bit generous with it) but if leaving it out then it's probably best to leave the ground cloves out too.
• Into a small bowl weigh approx 100g sultanas and mix in a teaspoon of ground ginger to coat the sultanas well (if using ginger).
• Start machine on 'speciality' or 'raisin bread' cycle with normal crust setting.
• At about 5 minutes before the end of the second kneading or at the beep (if you trust your machine not to mash up the sultanas - mine is lethal to them so I ignore the beep and wait until only a few minutes remain of the second kneading) add the sultanas mixed together with the ground ginger.
• Measurements: I find blackstrap molasses is almost impossible to measure using a spoon as it's so incredibly thick and gooey and most of it stays on the spoon so I just pour it out of the jar - which can make for some rather hit and miss measurements. Taste-wise, I liked the strength of flavour best when I suceeded in pouring in 62g of molasses and used 103g of sultanas.
• Basically I think of this as cake without the all the fat and the calories :).
• Bakes a good-sized 1 1/2 Lb Loaf.
• Addition, tried December 2005 --
• I remebered that I had some crystallized ginger (a.k.a. candied ginger) in the cupboard and added 32g chopped up to about the size of the sultanas which I mixed with the fruit and ground ginger for adding at the beep. The quantity was probably a bit excessive and it does make the loaf a bit trickier to slice as ginger can be quite 'tough', but an idea to bear in mind if you have some in the cupboard and fancy it :).

GOLDEN SULTANA BREAD

Steps:

• Place ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order suggested by the manufacturer. Select the setting suitable for standard, soft, white bread. Start.

COCONUT, SULTANA & HONEY LOAF (ABM / BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Weigh the main ingredients into the bread machine and select Raisin or Speciality Bread and preferred Crust type - I chose normal crust which worked nicely - and start the machine.
• At the beep, if you trust your machine not to mash up the fruit like mine always does, add the sultanas with just an incredibly light dusting of cardamom (or omit it if you don't like cardamom). For my machine I ignored the beep and waited until just over 3 minutes remained of the 2nd knead cycle and that worked great - guess it depends how squishy your sultanas are :).
• Cool on a wire rack.
• Makes a loaf just under 1 1/2 Lb which you won't be able to stop eating!
• Cooking time listed is the baking time for my machine.

EVERYDAY BREAD (FRENCH BREAD) ABM BREAD MACHINE

Steps:

• Add ingredients in the order listed to your bread machine, or follow the manufacturers directions for adding ingredients.
• Choose the basic cycle with regular or light crust. Rapid cycle will work, too.