I got a bread maker for christmas and the recipes in it arent very good. has anyone got any good tried and tested white loaf recipes? x

We just use packets!

Feel a bit dumb now as we never even though of doing our own recipes.

Can't think of any off the top of my head and everything I had is packed at my Mum's but you can get whole books on bread makers

Which machine did you get Mandy? I got Dave a Morphy Richards one and the basic white loaf is scrummy!

It's just cookworks one Lisa. the white recipe is a bit too doughy for my liking

I'll jot down the one Dave uses for you this weekend. Does yours do a 2lb loaf? x

Yes it does. thanks that would be great x

I do 320 ml water, 2 dessert spoons olive oil, 500g white bread flour, 1tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp yeast. Most of those measurements are fairly approximate, I think the recipe book says 1 tablespoon butter (instead of oil), 1 tsp salt.

Very nice on the day it is made but as it isn't full of preservatives it doesn't really keep.

Dunno I will ask Mr J but I recently got him to make me a scrummy dark choc chip brioche which I iced and was gorge. Not much use to you thouh

I used to like a half and half, white flour and whole grain flour with seeds like pumpkin & poppy


Also I half whatever it says for sugar and salt in the recipe books, so I think its a large (if you have of the measure things) of the sugar and a small of the salt, a small of the yeats and 2 of the large ends for oil

I got my mum a gorgeous one for her birthday (she has always said she wanted one) but she never uses it.

After seeing this post, I rang her and said if she didnt want it, I would have it back and get her something else. She said she uses it, but 10 mins later (as predicted ) she rang me back saying that she thinks I should have it.

So im getting it when I drop Lily off before my pre op on Monday! Yay X

Oh keeps saying he wants one , must admit is lovely being down at his mums and smelling he bread cooking

i keep thinking if we get one it will end up being a novelty