We eat a lot of bread in our family, baked with a Panasonic bread maker, which is excellent.
I buy flour in 16kg sacks by mail order from Heygates UK. Recently I tried some of their Malt Crunch Bread Mix flour, which is really great, and should be very healthy.
You can use the 50% wholemeal bread recipe in the Panasonic bread maker handbook, if you want to mix it 50/50 with white flour. But I wanted to use 100% malt crunch as it's healthier not to use any white flour if you can avoid it. I couldn't find a suitable recipe, so it took some trial and error.
After some false starts, this is the recipe I've ended up with...
- 600 grams of Heygates Malt Crunch bread mix flour
- 4 teaspoons dried yeast (Allinson's Easy Bake)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 teaspoons sugar
- 30 grams olive oil
- 375 ml water
For measuring teaspoons, I use the small end of the pink scoop that came with the breadmaker. Quick and easy. I bake for 3 hours, using Panasonic programme no. 5 (the rapid wholemeal programme).
The whole family loves this bread. I had thought our younger kids might moan about the bread having bits in it, but they've really found it a great improvement on my previous 50/50 white/wholemeal loaves.
Hope this is useful!
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