We have in our basement a Dax Auto Bakery bread machine. It's from the late 80's and is a behemoth of a machine. I've look through the recipe book before but never got around to trying any bread. I'm still sick and kinda craving comfort foods, so I decided to try it today.
Spoiler Alert: This doesn't end well.
I had to consult the YouTube to figure out how to put the thing together. That was very simple. So I continued with the video and used the guy's recipe as well. I'm not really sure what went wrong. I measured and added all the ingredients according to the video (maybe this is where I went wrong, maybe I should have used the recipes in the Auto Bakery Cookbook?) and turned the machine on. It mixes itself, lets the dough rest and ferment and then bake. I'm of course doing all this while taking care of Baby Boy Sunshine, so I wasn't paying much attention to what the machine was doing, but that's the whole point of a bread machine, no?
Anyway, at some point I took this picture:
I do believe this should all be one lump?
I think the dough mixed again after this and then went on to its fermentation phase and then baked. Here's what we have when the machine was done:
Uhhhhh. Beautiful, isn't it? It tasted ok. Kinda crunchy on the outsides. I'm thinking something was wrong with the yeast. I may keep experimenting with the machine, or I may haul it to my mother in law's house. Whatever. I'm sure she can tell me what I did wrong.
Got a bread machine? Have I convinced you to buy a Dax? Hahahahahaha!!
You know what I just realized? It looks like seitan!
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