Help making bread with a stand mixer?
I want to start making my own bread but have rheumatoid arthritis and am unable to knead the dough with my hands. I finally got a stand mixer but I feel unsure as to how to start. I have never baked bread before and I am looking for step by step directions on how to make bread with a mixer but I do not know where to look. Any type of bread would be fine, I just want to start somewhere and get a handle on it. Thank you very much.
Hi Kely, found this for you, good luck & take care
Things You’ll Need:
Two 9" X 5" baking pans
KitchenAid stand mixer with dough hook
1 cup water
1 cup evaporated milk
3 TBS butter
1 beaten egg
2 ½ tsp active instant yeast
4 cups white unbleached flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 TBS sugar
2 tsp salt
1 beaten egg
Softened butter
In your stainless steel mixer bowl, combine dry ingredients, including yeast, and mix well on Speed 2, using the dough hook.
Combine water, milk and butter. Heat gently until butter melts. Cool to just warm and add beaten egg, mixing well.
Add milk mixture to dry ingredients. Mix at speed 2 of KitchenAid mixer with dough hook until no flour remains on side of bowl (or stir vigorously by hand). Add more flour if necessary. Knead for 5 minutes on speed 2 (10 minutes by hand).
Butter a large bowl, turn mixture onto flat surface and knead by hand for a few minutes. Put mixture into bowl, turning to grease all sides. Cover with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel and let rise until double, about one hour.
When it is doubled, remove from bowl, punch down, knead for a few minutes, and return to bowl. Cover and let rise until doubled again. Punch down and knead for a few minutes.
Divide dough in half, put in two greased 9" X 5" pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30-45 minutes. Brush tops with beaten egg.
Bake at 350F for about 30-35 minutes, until the bread sounds hollow when you tap on it.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2243623_basic-bread-using-stand-mixer.html
Have a look at this site, there’s a lot of useful info for bread making with a mixer
http://www.baking911.com/bread/101_mix.htm
Hiya Kely F.
How are you doing? I hope great!
It’s a wonderful day here in the Midwest of America.
Just really happy to be alive; cancer survivor, yahoo!
Now that the niceties are done here’s the answer to your question.
Go to: http://www.ehow.com -
Type in the following: How to bake good basic bread using your stand mixer
And it will display what you are looking for; plain and simple directions.
Good luck and have fun making that bread…
hmmmmm, warm fresh bread and butter, can’t get any better.
Take Care.
If you bought a Kitchen Aid, it comes with a booklet with really specific directions for making bread in it. I don’t like Kitchen Aid’s bread recipes but have good luck using the ones that I use in the bread machine. Anyhow, when you’re using the dough hook make sure never to turn the machine up higher than 2 so you don’t kill the motor.