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episode 53 season 1
Who doesn't like fresh bread and butter, yummy!
Today I'm going to share my bread recipe. This is what I like about my 'variety' show, it allows me the platform to share stories about WhatEver-WhenEver and provides you with randomness of information.
Welcome back to Valerie’s Variety Podcast with your host me, Valerie Moss this show is about ReViews, InterViews and my Daily Views. It’s a story podcast about my life in Calgary, WhatEVER | WhenEVER. The show drops every Tuesday.
Follow me on Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook
Instagram @ValerieJMoss
Pinterest @VJMoss
Facebook @ValeriesVarietyPod
5 years ago Subway made headlines, not for their great tasting sandwiches, not for their over 33,000 locations beating McDonalds by over 1000 but for the chemical used in their bread. Their staple ingredient, the mere platform that everything at Subway relies and lies upon - their bread. This bread contains very bad ingredients. Referring to this ingredient by the tag-name of "yoga-mat". The chemical name is azodicarbonamide or ADA which btw is contained in over 500 recipes and not just bread. In the plastics industry ADA is the chemical foaming agent. It is mixed into polymer plastic gel to generate tiny gas bubbles, something like champagne for plastics. The results are materials that are strong, light, spongy and malleable - like a yoga-mat.
This got me thinking, I did some research on a loaf of bread in any grocery store and I was pretty educated on the amount of chemicals in the everyday bread we buy in a grocery store and most of them contained azodibarbonamide - not just Subway!
So, I decided right then and there that I would start making my own bread. Jeff was on board. Who doesn't like a fresh loaf of bread smelling good and tasting even better. We even have a song 'jam bun jam bun' and it goes to the jingle of old Cops shows. bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do...I digress.
Bread Machine
We purchased a bread machine as I knew better then to try and time rising. This bread machine isn't anything fancy, it's the Cuisinart Bread Machine. You can purchase it on Amazon for about $160 and if you're a prime member shipping is free. I bought ours about 5 years ago at Home Outfitters - for $200 but according to their website all stores are closing and they have huge sales so you might be able to pick one up from there for a good price.
Since I've had this bread maker I've made 2 loaves a bread a week, sometimes more but this is pretty typical. That’s over 520 loaves of break with this same machine.
You must put the ingredients into the bread maker or your mixing bowl in this order and this recipe is for a medium size of loaf. I found this to be the best size for the bread machine.
French Bread Ingredients - Standard White
Water, Table Salt, Bread Flour, Measuring Cups & Spoons, Amaranth Flour (maybe)
(x1) Cup, (x1)TBsp of water - room temp (I actually use the water from the Keurig holding tank)(x3) 1/4 teaspoons white table salt(x2) Cups, (x1) 1/3 Cup, (x1) TBsp of Bread Flour - I use bread flour as it's seems to rise the best and taste the best. You can use all purpose but it's not as good, in this picture on my site I'm showing a small bag of Amaranth flour, I will sometimes add a Tbsp of this within the cup measurement of the bread flour just adds a different element.make a well in the flour to add your yeast(x2) Teaspoons of Dry Active Yeast
Then set your Cuisinart bread machine to menu 5 - French Bread, and in 3:15mins you'll have warm hot-made bread.
ReView of the Cuisinart Bread Machine
Since I've had this bread machine for so long I love it, it does what it needs to do and is very reliable. It's noisy as it mixes away, beeps to add ingredients and to take the paddle out. It's looks good on the counter and it has these great rubber feet that secure it while it does it's mixing. It has 15 menu options, you can even make jams.
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By Valerie Moss | Valerie's Variety Podcast
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episode 53 season 1
Who doesn't like fresh bread and butter, yummy!
Today I'm going to share my bread recipe. This is what I like about my 'variety' show, it allows me the platform to share stories about WhatEver-WhenEver and provides you with randomness of information.
Welcome back to Valerie’s Variety Podcast with your host me, Valerie Moss this show is about ReViews, InterViews and my Daily Views. It’s a story podcast about my life in Calgary, WhatEVER | WhenEVER. The show drops every Tuesday.
Follow me on Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook
Instagram @ValerieJMoss
Pinterest @VJMoss
Facebook @ValeriesVarietyPod
5 years ago Subway made headlines, not for their great tasting sandwiches, not for their over 33,000 locations beating McDonalds by over 1000 but for the chemical used in their bread. Their staple ingredient, the mere platform that everything at Subway relies and lies upon - their bread. This bread contains very bad ingredients. Referring to this ingredient by the tag-name of "yoga-mat". The chemical name is azodicarbonamide or ADA which btw is contained in over 500 recipes and not just bread. In the plastics industry ADA is the chemical foaming agent. It is mixed into polymer plastic gel to generate tiny gas bubbles, something like champagne for plastics. The results are materials that are strong, light, spongy and malleable - like a yoga-mat.
This got me thinking, I did some research on a loaf of bread in any grocery store and I was pretty educated on the amount of chemicals in the everyday bread we buy in a grocery store and most of them contained azodibarbonamide - not just Subway!
So, I decided right then and there that I would start making my own bread. Jeff was on board. Who doesn't like a fresh loaf of bread smelling good and tasting even better. We even have a song 'jam bun jam bun' and it goes to the jingle of old Cops shows. bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do...I digress.
Bread Machine
We purchased a bread machine as I knew better then to try and time rising. This bread machine isn't anything fancy, it's the Cuisinart Bread Machine. You can purchase it on Amazon for about $160 and if you're a prime member shipping is free. I bought ours about 5 years ago at Home Outfitters - for $200 but according to their website all stores are closing and they have huge sales so you might be able to pick one up from there for a good price.
Since I've had this bread maker I've made 2 loaves a bread a week, sometimes more but this is pretty typical. That’s over 520 loaves of break with this same machine.
You must put the ingredients into the bread maker or your mixing bowl in this order and this recipe is for a medium size of loaf. I found this to be the best size for the bread machine.
French Bread Ingredients - Standard White
Water, Table Salt, Bread Flour, Measuring Cups & Spoons, Amaranth Flour (maybe)
(x1) Cup, (x1)TBsp of water - room temp (I actually use the water from the Keurig holding tank)(x3) 1/4 teaspoons white table salt(x2) Cups, (x1) 1/3 Cup, (x1) TBsp of Bread Flour - I use bread flour as it's seems to rise the best and taste the best. You can use all purpose but it's not as good, in this picture on my site I'm showing a small bag of Amaranth flour, I will sometimes add a Tbsp of this within the cup measurement of the bread flour just adds a different element.make a well in the flour to add your yeast(x2) Teaspoons of Dry Active Yeast
Then set your Cuisinart bread machine to menu 5 - French Bread, and in 3:15mins you'll have warm hot-made bread.
ReView of the Cuisinart Bread Machine
Since I've had this bread machine for so long I love it, it does what it needs to do and is very reliable. It's noisy as it mixes away, beeps to add ingredients and to take the paddle out. It's looks good on the counter and it has these great rubber feet that secure it while it does it's mixing. It has 15 menu options, you can even make jams.