Any Good Bread Maker Recipes?

Here are a few bread machine recipes. These recipes are tried and true.

Sourdough Breadmachine Bread - 2lb loaf

1 cup water
2 1/2 tbsp vinegar
8 oz sour cream (or 2/3 cup)
4 cups white flour (I usually use half bread flour if I have it)
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tbsp sugar *
2 pkg dry yeast

* You can substitute 2 tbsp honey if you have it

It's worth making this recipe every once in awhile, especially if
you have some leftover sour cream!! Enjoy!


Pesto Bread for 2lb loaf

1 1/3c Water
1/4c Prepared Pesto
2T Powdered milk
2T Sugar
1t Salt
4c Bread Flour
2t Yeast


Use Basic Cycle on machine


Onion Bread for 2lb loaf

1 1/3 c Water
3T Oil
3T Dry Onion Soup Mix
4t Sugar
4C Bread Flour
2t Yeast

Use Basic Cycle on machine


Cinnamon Raisin Nut Bread

1 1/3c Water
3T Oil
1t Cinnamon
4t Dark Brown Sugar
2t salt
4c Bread Flour
2/3 c Raisins *add raisins and nuts at beep
2/3 c nuts
2t Yeast

Use Sweet Cycle on Machine


Potato Bread

1 1/8 c Water
3T Honey
1 1/2t Salt
3T Butter
3 C Bread Flour
1 C Potato Flakes
2 1/4t Yeast

Use Basic Cycle on Machine

Sorry I do it the old fashioned way by hand. It is a good stress reducer

I have a breadmachine that I got as a Christmas gift. I don't like it. Used it twice. I make homemade bread. Good luck. Do a search on google. You will find tons on there.

Now I am hungry!!!!

no but good luck finding some !!!!!!!!!!

There are lots of good bread machine cookbooks out there, many under $25, so use your next Borders gift card from Gather!

There is an excellent Yahoo group dedicated to bread machines:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bread-machine/
The files, available to ll group members, are loaded with good bread machine recipes, and there is daily conversation about using bread machines.

Many if not most experienced brea machine users do not bake the loaf in the machine; they use the machine to mix and knead and be a warm place for rising. Then they hand shape the loaf and bake it in the oven. When you do this, you don't need special bread machine recipes. Any bread recipe works.

Bread machine recipes require great precision because they have to work under machine conditions, but hand formed and baked bread is very forgiving. You don't even need a recipe; just do what you like.

Not all the traditional bread machine "rules" are valid any more. Bread machines were invented in Japan for reasons based specifically on Japanese culture. The first years of bread machine recipes had features specific to Japanese culture. For example, they all call for powdered milk or powdered buttermilk because people don't drink milk regularly in Japan as in the US. Fresh milk in a Japanese household would go sour before it got used, so recipes call for powdered milk, which keeps well in the pantry. Milk also makes a very soft-textured bread prized more in Japan than in the US. OTOH, French and other Mediterranean breads contain water but no milk.

Good luck and let us know how you do!

Did your bread machine not come with a recipe book, Birdee? Let me know and I can type up a bunch of the recipes from mine. It came with a big book of recipes you can make in it. What size loaf does your bread machine make? I just actually made a cinnamon raisin nut bread this evening. It was great!!! I'll type up the recipe to it for you. I also made a pepperoni pizza bread Saturday or Sunday I think. It smelled GREAT baking!!!! I wanted a pizza so badly after smelling it. It was tasty too.

I hardly use mine anymore. I used to buy the bread mixes that are made for bread machines. Mine came with a recipe book but the only recipe I ever made was the one for pound cake and it is fantastic!

Cinnamon Raisin Nut Bread

Makes 1 1/2 pound loaf

cooks on the FAST BAKE setting (1 hour)

1 1/4 c + 1 TBL water
7 tsp oil
3 1/2 TBL brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 TBL dry milk
3 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 raisins
1/2 cup walnuts
6 3/4 tsp yeast

Just throw everything in your machine in that order.

That's the one I had tonight. I have a recipe for it for the longer baking times too and not just the hour setting.

There's recipes for Italian bread, Potato Bread, and Honey Granola Bread if you'd be interested in any of those. They're all for the fast setting.

I've tried the Italian one but none of the others although I've been wanting to try the honey granola one.

I need to get a new bread machine. My son gave us one as a gift. We hadn't used it in a long time and I asked him if he would like to have it. I told him that I used it quite a bit, but since we no longer used it, he should have it. Now I regret giving it to him.

Let's see.......Now with the long settings

cinnamon rain bread
dried fruit bread
buttermilk bread
peanut butter honey bread (I'm making this one next!)
seed bread (whatever the crap that is!)
pumpernickel bread
pesto bread
dill bread
italian herb bread
hearty nut bread
jalapeno bread (yum, will have to make this one too)
corn bread
double chocolate bread (oh yeah!!)
caraway rye bread
honey oatmeal bread
onion rye bread
sour cream, onions, and chives bread
tomato herb bread

Any of those?

Maybe Italian Herb Bread...
The peanut butter honey does sound good mmmmm
Yeah thanks everyone! ;o) (even the ones without recipes haha ;o) I appreciate the points ;o)).

i love to make bread, so my brother gav me abread machine...
didn't he get it? I like to make bread, not watch a machine make bread!.

punch that dough! knead it, knead it, knead it!