Bread Machines Overview

Perhaps you remember with sweet nostalgia your mother or grandmother baking homemade bread. And perhaps you remember it taking all day before you could enjoy the fruit of their labors. Since the advent of the bread machine in the 1990s, modern families can enjoy all the benefits of fresh baked bread without all the mess and work.

 

Bread machines handle all the steps of making bread – mixing the ingredients, warming the dough, kneading, punching down, and baking. All you have to do is carefully measure ingredients into the bread machine’s pan and push the correct buttons. Most breads are ready in between 2 and 4 hours, depending on the bread, cycle and machine.

 

Bread machines also make more than bread. You can use them to make cakes, pizza dough, sweet breads, jam and jelly.