Breadmaker recipes!

I have not tried a rye loaf, I too have found it rather heavy going, we tasted some in Denmark, but I use rye flour and yogurt to make sour dough starters in the Panasonic, makes delicious sour dough bread.  We use it a lot for toast.

Still alive!

This may be useful......

https://www.shipton-mill.com/baking/how-to-bake/any-hints-for-making-rye-in-a-bread-machine.htm

The 3 prong paddle is to enable the machine to pick up and mix the heavy dough more easily

https://www.quick-german-recipes.com/rye-bread-recipe.html

this sounds like a good rye loaf, not as dark as some

I wish I hadn't read about ergot now! 

The triple paddle is needed because the mixture is so stiff, I suspect it might come off. Maybe it's better to part make rye bread and do the rest by hand if you have a single paddle.

I looked paddles up last night. Couldn’t find one that would fit our old model, only one that looked close was £50! I suspect it might finish off my old machine as well, although yesterday’s carrot loaf turned out lovely.

I might cheat and give the flour to my sister. She loves hand baking bread, and is experimenting with different flours all the time. I will pass on the recipes as well thanks. Will post results👍

Edit: Wow, ergotism sounds ghastly😱

I probably have a similar handbook as the photos above, but I don't use it now. I have large plastic boxes with different flours (white, wholemeal, malted, seed mixes, spelt, rye etc) and mix and match as the fancy takes me. I use (more or less) the same proportions of flour mix to water all the time and the same machine programme. Each loaf is an individual and the only failures are user error (forgetting the yeast!). And for a change - just plain white. One loaf does two of us two days - cooked overnight, fresh the first day and toasted the second.

For "special" occasions (parties and visitors - what are those?) I add other stuff (cheese, bacon, herbs, malt extract, fruit and nuts etc).

I think we bought out first machine (Panasonic) in 2001. Wouldn't be without it!

User error😁 I made the carrot loaf a few weeks ago, and made the mistake of using rapid bake instead of bake (couldn’t find my reading glasses😂) It came out ok, much more dense, but I love doughy bread. It toasted lovely. Your machine sounds a similar age to ours Goldie.

We gave our older Panasonic, maybe 15 years old, to our daughter, and as the paddle was a bit beaten up and always got stuck in the loaf, we bought a new one which had the exact dimensions of the old one, it cost £9.

However, when we tried it, it was a bit loose on the spindle and makes a terrible rattling noise, which is quite alarming!  They make all their own bread now so have gone back to using the old paddle.

i am now trying to work out a way to make it fit better and not rattle.

We've had a new machine since then - plus new paddles. The raisin dropper doesn't work on the current one (stays open), but it doesn't matter as I don't mind things chopped up if they all go in at once.

I don’t think the paddle is meant to be a snug fit? Ours rattles a bit too.