Bread

Bread!?!?!?! :)?

I'm going to try to make bread. I was thinking of making one loaf with fruit in (sultanas) and one loaf with nuts in (pistachio nuts). BUT... I need tips or ideas or suggestions on or for making bread? Ohh.. I mean vegan bread.

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1. Hiya ! I typed 'Bread Recipe' into the Yahoo search engine and it came up with THOUSANDS of sites - here's the first one on their list: http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Bread/Main.aspx
2. Unless you are an exceptional baker with a lot of experience, don’t try to create your own recipe entirely from scratch just yet. Find yourself a good recipe for bread, preferably one that is enriched. This means that it has some extra ingredients, usually fat-based, that help to give it additional flavor. Most enriched breads contain butter in addition to the traditional yeast, water, flour and salt traditionally found in basic breads. In addition, some also contain eggs. Enriched breads tend to work out the best with additives such as raisins and nuts. Two enriched breads that I recommend are the French brioche and the Italian panettone. In fact, many recipes for panettone already contain both fruits and nuts. If you can’t find a recipe with added fruits or nuts that you like, then you can easily add fruit and or nuts to at least some enriched breads. If you use brioche or other similar recipes, make certain that the original bread recipe contains some sugar, which makes it suitable for sweet pastries and similar uses. Brioche is a versatile dough that has many applications. Some recipes are intended for savory applications, while others are intended for the sweet dessert table. Those with sugar taste best with nuts or fruit added.
3. Listen friend, I bought a breadmaker (£30), best thing I ever bought. I just put the ingredients into it and within 3 hours the best ever. I stopped buying a loaf since february this year and I now make 4 loaves a week. A bag of flour 48p, yeast (60p for 6 packets) dry milk, salt, sugar. Really simple. You can also make morning rolls, pizza dough, jams etc... Go for it.
4. im vegan, so obviously i cant use milk or eggs etc, so i use soya milk in the bread and it tastes just as good, you can also use dairy free spread to avoid using real butter. so altogether its still vegan bread, when i make bread i love to add vegan cheeses on top of your bread, to add a taste without using things inside the bread , cheesy bread, or i sometimes use different nuts or seeds, sunflower seeds , sesame seeds, brazil, pistachio ( as you said ) walnuts etc. theres many ways of making vegan bread, different variaties, try getting a vegan cook book im sure there will be loads of different choices of new breads you can taste and discover. hope this helps.