I want to make bread in bread machine. Can I sub milk for dry milk and reg flour for bread flour?

Question

I want to make homemade bread in my breadmaker. The recipe calls for powdered or dry milk, all I have is regular milk. Also, it calls for bread flour and all I have is regular flour. Will one pack of yeast = 2 1/4 teaspoon?

Answer 1

I use fresh milk, warmed to the proper temperature, every time since I absolutely hate the taste of powdered milk.

As for the regular vs. bread flour, bread flour works much better in bread machines than regular. You can add vital wheat gluten to regular flour to achieve nearly the same results, but chances are it will be easier to buy bread flour.

Answer 2

You might have to monkey with the recipe to make the different flour and milk work. Remember that recipes are guidelines, not strict laws. I've made hundreds of batches of bread in a breadmaker, and the only ingredients you really need for bread are flour, water, and yeast. Sugar and salt are the next most important as they help regulate the yeast, but you can actually make bread without them.

First, use your fluid milk instead of the water in the recipe. If you sub wet milk for dry, you'll have a sticky mess because that's too much moisture.
Next, watch the dough as it's mixing, and add a bit more flour if it seems too sticky because of the difference in flours.
I'm not sure how much yeast is in a packet, I always used bulk yeast from the health food store (MUCH cheaper than those little bottles they sell at the grocery). Open the pack and measure it!

Best of luck!

Answer 3

All Purpose flour is fine just sift it first. You can use regular milk just reduce the water by the same amount so the liquid balance is right - remember that it is better if your liquids are warm (like for a baby bottle) not hot - hot will kill the yeast. Your measure of yeast is correct, also for truly successful bread add at least 1 tablespoon of oil or melted butter to create a commercial taste to the dough (this is left out of many machine recipes and is very important to the texture of bread). Since you haven't used your machine before I recommend starting with the smallest loaf to see if it needs adjusting. There is a very good recipe book called Electric bread that has excellent recipes for a variety of breads often not included in the book that came with the machine. Good Luck!

Answer 4

Yes, you can. Replace the dried milk and water with regular milk. I even have a lactose intolerant friend who uses just water, no milk, and makes excellent bread in the bread machine. Using all purpose flour instead of bread flour may make a small difference in texture and how much it rises, but not a significant difference. Bread isn't nearly as sensitive to these kinds of substitutions as some of the previous answers indicate.

Also, your yeast measurement is correct.

Answer 5

You can use regular milk, just adjust the amount of water to compensate and make sure the milk is the temp. the recipe calls for. I wouldn't use fresh milk and set the bread machine if you're using the delay setting to make bread later in the day because it could spoil. You can use all-purpose flour. The loaf will be a bit smaller but still good. A package of yeast = 1 tablespoon.

Answer 6

If you use regular flour,it won't work correctly. The gluten in the bread flour is specifically made FOR bread. Also,if you use regular milk,you're bread will be too wet,thus the dry milk.

Answer 7

You can always swap the water for milk and delete the dry milk - but CAUTION if you are using the timed setting - you need to use dry milk - They dry milk is so that it does not go bad before bread is made - so in other words - use it if turning on your machine now, do not use it if you are going to put it on a delayed start setting (like I do - 6 hours later) ' Do not substitute the salt - it is needed to make the yeast react properly. Sugar activates the yeast and salt stops it ... so you need the correct balance of each. Also if using the delayed setting, be sure to place your sugar and salt AWAY from the yeast in the mixer - It is suggested to put one in each corner. The rest of the stuff can go anywhere as it does not affect the yeast ....

Answer 8

No, it will throw the moisture off. Also bread and regular flours have different glutan amounts. I would adhere to the recipe.

Answer 9

I can tell you regular flour will not work well. You really need to take a trip to the grocery store and buy the proper ingredients.

Answer 10

Absolutely not! Bread is a very touchy thing. If you'd going to make it, even in a bread machine, follow the instructions to the letter.