Comments on: Surprise Bread https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/ #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:32:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Lisa https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557665 Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:41:20 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557665 In reply to Judith.

Half of a UK block, so 125g.

]]> By: Mary P https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557636 Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:14:04 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557636 In reply to shannon.

If you have a Publix, look for Swans Down Cake Flour. It’s in a box!

]]> By: Shirli Place https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557539 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 18:30:25 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557539 Even though the loaf from the bread machine was a fail…. the photos are spectacular. Good job! 😀

]]> By: Jane https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557472 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:10:15 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557472 I have an ancient zojorushi that’s still going. It has different settings for regular and fast rise yeast. You do have to check the fell of the bread when it’s mixing. Sometimes a little extra water, sometimes an extra table of flour.

]]> By: Jack https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557119 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:36:29 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557119 When I had a bread maker my favorite thing to do was make breakfast style breads using the timer feature. You would wake up in the morning to the house smelling like freshly baked bread and cinnamon!

]]> By: KRISTIAN H https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557116 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:09:36 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557116 FWIW, we’ve found Saf Red Instant yeast ‘us’ proof wrt to making bread. YMMV. It lasts forever in the freezer as well.

]]> By: Suey https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557109 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:16:07 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557109 I am wondering about the bread slicing component? I have a plastic bread slicing guide and it is very ordinary, to say the least. Have you used the wooden slice guide pictured and is it any good? I am in Australia and can’t find anything similar online. Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Grace https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/surprise-bread/#comment-557106 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:27:54 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=33563#comment-557106 I’ve made lots of bread over the years, some by hand and some by machines. That result looks like what happens when the blade doesn’t mix, for whatever reason, and you get a baked brick of whatever you put in for the recipe.

I’ve used lots of different flours, lots of ingredients including some that I never would have thought to put in bread, all varieties of yeast (including one brand that kept for over a decade in my freezer as I slowly used it up). There is no one perfect way to make bread. But the paddle does have to rotate and knead the bread for any of them to make anything resembling a loaf. I’ve started mine without the paddle & without the paddle seated properly and have gotten a very similar result both ways.

I haven’t seen another post about the bread so perhaps you have figured it out, but if you haven’t I’m sure you will.

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