How to make homemade bread machine mixes for long-term store?
I bought a bread machine that makes delicious bread, but in the weekday, I rarely have time to put all of the ingredients together. I would like to prepare many batches for a whole month, all at once.
Many years ago, I could buy box mixes, for use in the machine, but the cost has gone up considerably. Would it be possible for me to measure out the ingredients for the bread, store them in zip-lock bags, to later be throwing into the machine?
Typical recipes include such ingredients as these:
- water
- butter
- honey
- salt
- bread flour
- nonfat dry milk
- yeast
- granola
- Italian seasoning
- mozzarella cheese
- sun-dried tomatoes
I suspect cheese, butter, water, and milk cannot be added, but can all other ingredients be added together, then stored in zip-lock backs, to later be poured in the machine? Will this result in less quality taste? How long can it be stored?
Best Answer
You can certainly mix together all of the dry ingredients out of the above, and store them. They should store for a few weeks in the fridge, and a few months in the freezer.
However, by dry, I'm referring to the following out of the above:
- Bread flour
- Nonfat dry milk
- Salt
- Yeast
- Granola
- Sun dried tomatoes, if completely dried (not packed in oil or brine)
The other ingredients all contain some moisture and would be problematic to store in advance of making the bread, for several reasons:
- The wet ingredients might ferment on their own or together with the dry ingredients;
- The wet ingredients might cause clumping in ways the bread maker cannot break up;
- Some of them don't freeze well;
- Premixing them might cause the bread machine to not be able to mix properly.
Some explanation on the last: many bread machines instruct you in a specific order of adding wet and dry ingredients. This is because their mixing and kneading action is designed to work with that layering. So if you premix and store ingredients, you can't me sure that your bread machine will mix them properly. You can test this, of course, if you can afford a few failed batches.
This means that you need to create your mixes of only the dry ingredients, and add the wet ingredients the day you make bread.
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1 Answer. Show activity on this post. You can certainly mix together all of the dry ingredients out of the above, and store them. They should store for a few weeks in the fridge, and a few months in the freezer.How do you store bread mix?
Mixes do not store well in light plastic bags. For best storage, use rigid plastic containers, glass jars with screw on lids, heavy cellophane bags, or Mylar bags. If the mix has added shortening, either use the mix within two or three months or store the mix in the refrigerator.How do you make bread last longer in a bread maker?
A great way to store homemade bread is to keep the bread in a paper bag wrapped in a cotton cloth or by simply putting it in a bread box. You also have the option to freeze it if you want it to remain in perfect shape for up to 3 months.Can you use regular bread mix in bread machine?
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