I was thinking about trying to mix some corn meal in with some bread flour mix and running it through our bread machines. Has anyone tried this and if so what were the results? My thought is since when making corn bread conventionally, I usually add self rise flour to make it lighter I should be able to use the white yeast bread ingreidients and the bread machine instead to achieve the same results. BTW, if it doesn't show, yes I'm being spoiled by these bread machines. I love baking my bread while I sleep :>)

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 24, 2001

Answers

Hi Jay, I tried using half cornmeal and white flour,and it tasted like an english muffin. That is our favorite toast for breakfast now. I think I'll try making cornbread tonite in the machine and let you know. We seldom buy bread at the store anymore. Daryll

-- Daryll (twincrk@hotmail.com), May 24, 2001.

Thanks. We figure to quit buying bread at the store also. Wal Mart had the machines on sale for$30 apiece so we bought one, only I didn't know my parents bought me one also. I'm making em two loaves at a time for about twenty cents a loaf.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 24, 2001.

Jay, I hate to admit ignorance but I keep seeing initals come up and I have no idea what they mean, i.e. BTW, and all the rest!!

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), May 24, 2001.

I have made it in my bread machine successfully several times. :-) It is more of a bread consistancy then a cornbread one as it mixes it so well, I guess, but it sure is tasty!!

-- Cindy in Ok (cynthiacluck@yahoo.com), May 24, 2001.

Jay, Here is a site with tons of bread machine recipes; http://www.breadworld.com/recipes/bmother.asp?dough=mach check it out. Daryll

-- Daryll (twincrk@hotmail.com), May 24, 2001.

Thanks for the responses and info! Lynn and I are experimenting with it right now. Let you know how it turns out.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 24, 2001.

The first loaf turned out as tasty as a pan pone. Just gotta get used to cornbread that looks like yellow loaf bread.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 24, 2001.

Jay, Would you consider posting your "recipe"? Sounds tasty! Thanks, Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), May 24, 2001.

Jay, have you tried sourdough bread with just a traditional starter, no additional yeast? Also, what is the baking pan made of?

As busy as things get around here, I may have to give up and get a bread machine after all!

-- marilyn (rainbow@ktis.net), May 24, 2001.

2 eggs & buttermilk equaling 15 oz liquid. 1 1/4 cup bread flour 3 cups yellow corn meal 4 tablespoon sugar 1/2 to 3/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 2 tablespoon stick butter 4 tsp bread machine yeast pour liquid in machine pan, add dry ingredients. Add yeast to top of dry ingredients. Run machine on "rapid" setting (1 hr cycle)

On the second loaf I also added 1 tablespoon onion powder to give it a hush puppy taste.

I did it as a variation of the deluxe white bread recipe, increasing the soda and salt to the cornbread requirements and replacing 3 cups of flour with meal. If it starts kneading like pancake mix or sticking during the roll knead sprinkle a little more flour on the dough to improve the consistancy.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 24, 2001.

Mitch, look up "acronyms" or "net acronyms" on just about any search engine. The first address Google (www.google.com) turned up is http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/

These arose back when connections were much slower (MUCH SLOWER - about 110 bits per second, rather than approximately 33,000 or 56,000), and you were also usually using a teletype where every key depression took a sledgehammer, and there was no buffering. BTW is "by the way" IMHO (in my humble opinion); LOL is "laughing out load", ROTFL is "rolling on the floor laughing", ROTFLMAO is something like "rolling on the floor laughing my donkey off", ROTFLAPIMP is - well, check out the lists.

Also search on "emoticons". These are character abbbreviations (icons) for emotions - things like the smiley :-) (look at it sideways), and variations on that.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), May 24, 2001.

I have used the Herman sourdough starter for about 30 years, really like it because of the taste and especially because of no kneading. I have tried making it in the bread machine 2 or 3 times, and it was harder than any rock. Do any of you know how to adapt Herman to the bread machine? Herman is the kind of sourdough that is fed with flour, sugar and milk. I use yeast with it to make light bread. Also make several kinds of Herman biscuits using soda and/or baking powder. I'll try the cornbread recipes--they sound like they'd be delicious!

-- ruth in s,.e.Illinois (bobtravous@email.com), May 24, 2001.

All you have to do to make cornbread is mix the cornmeal with milk, baking soda, put in a greased castiron pan and put in oven untill golden brown. Why would you use a bread machine.

-- David (bluewaterfarm@mindspring.com), May 25, 2001.

David,

The reasons I am trying to use the machine is ease of operation and clean up, making a standard loaf instead of a pone, delayed start so I can sleep or do something else and most of all.. I enjoy seeing how newer technology can be used as an enhancement of self sufficiency. Just because something has been done the same way for hundreds of years, doesn't neccesarily mean its "best" only the tested standard. I always research, test and compare so I know for myself. That is a major draw for me to the self sufficient lifestyle. Its like a giant laboratory full of potential experiments. :>)

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 25, 2001.

Amen David.

-- W.A. (wah@tnweb.com), May 25, 2001.

Thanks, Jay! Always willing to try something new! There is one saving grace to a breadmaker, it doesn't heat up the house like the oven does, so easier and more pleasant to make bread in the hotter months. Not as soothing as kneading is to the soul, but definitely a time saver! Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), May 26, 2001.