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Hawaiian Bread in the Bread Machine

Marsha — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:45:30 +0000

My experiment with Hawaiian bread mix made me curious about Hawaiian bread. What would it taste like if I made it from scratch? As it turns out, it tasted even better than the mix.

Hawaiian Bread
¾ cup pineapple juice
1 egg
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 ½ Tablespoons sugar
¾ teaspoon salt
3 cups bread flour
2 tablespoons milk
1 ½ teaspoons yeast

This makes a two pound loaf. Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first. Make sure you check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. Just pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing. It should be a smooth, round ball. If it’s too dry add liquid a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK. Most of the time though, the above amounts should be just right.

I made mine with the bread machine set at medium crust. It came out a little darker than I’d like. The next time I’m going to use the light crust setting.

We found the crust to be extra flaky and the bread had a cake-like texture. It was great!

Bread Mix Review – Classic Hearth Hawaiian Bread

Marsha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:14 +0000

As I gazed at this box of bread mix in Walmart, I realized that I’d never purchased bread mixes for my machine. Once we were given a few by a friend, but that had been years ago. I couldn’t even remember how the bread turned out.

Were mixes any good? Would I like them? Would I be able to taste the difference?

I decided to try it out.

The bread looked and tasted fine. I thought it was fantastic toasted with peanut butter on it. The Man of the House like it but said it had a “funny texture.”

Making bread with a bread machine isn’t hard. I make sandwich bread about once a week. It takes about 15 minutes including cleanup. However using a mix was much easier and faster.

The Man of the House and I haven’t done a firm workup on how much it costs to make a loaf of bread. We buy our flour, yeast, salt and sugar at Costco. Our rough estimate is that it costs us about fifty cents to make a loaf of bread. Even if it’s double that, a mix is much more expensive than making a loaf from scratch.

So this mix gets points for ease of use and bread quality. The cost is reasonable for a mix, but more expensive than making bread from scratch.