Panasonic SD-BMS105T: Attempt No. 3

Soft Loaf

This time I'm making the soft loaf, mode 3 on machine

High gluten flour     250g
Butter                       15g
Sugar                        17g
Milk powder             6g
Salt                           5g
Water                        180ml
Dry yeast                   2.8g

Once again, I used the automatic timer option, wanting to wake up to a fresh loaf.

 

Why?? Why?? Why is the top sunken AGAIN?? Okay, okay, too much water or too little flour, right? But that's what the recipe told me! I followed it EXACTLY. So is there something wrong with my scale? Is my yeast dead? Is there something wrong with the flour I am using?

 

Yeast can't be dead because I had just bought it. Okay, to be sure I will test it before making more bread.

 

As for the flour I am using..well, I bought it at Costco. I am sure it's high gluten (bread) flour. I have googled it and other people have used it to make successful bread.

 

Something wrong with my scale? Okay, I will also TEST that the next time. But really, if all these things are faulty I am never shopping at that specialty store again! (That is how hard it is to find baking-related items in Taiwan, you actually need to go to a specialty store).

  

 

On a happier note, see in the background of this photo? Yes, in the Glasslock container is the strawberry jam I made with the breadmaker! Okay, I know I could have just made jam the conventional way but jam making is like a big deal with this model of bread machine!! It's as if I paid extra so my bread machine can ALSO make jam! Obviously I have to try it.

 

Instead of using fresh strawberries as suggested in the instruction booklet, I used frozen (organic strawberries, once again purchased from Costco).

 

Frozen strawberries     400g

Sugar                           140g

Lemon juice                2.5 tablespoon

 

I set the machine on MODE 26. Cooking time was set to 150 minutes instead of the default 120 minutes.

 

It's not bad, the jam. I think the advantage is that it saves you the effort of stirring the jam yourself. But 150 minutes for making jam?? I think that's A LONG TIME for making jam. I don't think I need to be stirring for 150 minutes if I were making this on a stove...maybe I'm mistaken. Any jam experts out there?