Share your bread making or bread machine experiences.

Baking set, hmmm, I think I would give some pans that bread could be baked in and some flour for baking? What did your friend get you?

The first time, I was scared, too. So the first time, I bought a store bought mix-7 grain, I see there is a 9 grain one out there, too. The important things to remember are: 1. Liquid goes in the bottom first. 2. The recipes are in the book (at least mine anyway) in the order that you dump them into the machine. Usually water, butter, sugar or honey and flour with the yeast last. 3. Yeast goes last. Otherwise the water and sugar won't be all mixed into the dough and the yeast won't rise everything evenly 4. If you make it without a mix, use bread flour or regular flour with vita gluten unless the recipe says you can use regular flour. 5. Use yeast for bread making machines, it's in a bottle. 6. Yeast is put in last and you make a dent in the flour to put it in. 7. Whatever temperature they say things should be, that's the temps they should be. That's a challenge during the winter, my kitchen is 50 to 60 degrees (before I start to cook)and most of the recipes say room temps. So I have to measure the ingredients and put them separately into my bathroom or living room. 8. Must have it on a non-flamable surface as the machine gets very, very hot. Don't let anyone neat it unless the recipe says to add raisins during the kneading process or something. I check it during the needing process to make sure that all of the flour goes into the bread. Our flour was soooo dry that my husband checked it and said, "There's a problem, only one minute left until the kneading finishes and 1/2 of the flour is not mixed in and what is mixed, a lot of that looks dry." He was right, so I pressed stop, took the dough out, tried to mix it, and added two more ounces of water and it was fine. That was the from scratch dough, the already in a box stuff didn't need more water. 9. Use an oven mitt to handle everything after the thing shuts off completely and mine flashes a light near the word "complete." All the above instructions are in the book. So my advice, do what I did. Read through the instruction book. Then try a box mix for the first one so you see how it works. Then try the applesauce bread. Once you've done it a couple of times, it's fun! Just only check during the kneading process and if it looks like a wet ball of dough, leave it alone and do something else until it's done. It's fun adding raisins, nuts, or seeds while it's kneading. LET me KNOW how the applesauce bread turns out. Take care.

Thank you so much. Your instructions are very helpful. I'm making bread tomorrow, lol.

Terrific! Good luck!