Clair Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Yesterday, after 16 years of service in Sussex, then in the Lot, my Panasonic Bread Machine died.[:(]I killed it.I over-filled it the night before in my eagerness to scoff some brioche for breakfast, and I killed it.[:'(]It came from Lakeland and it crossed my mind I should find out if their "satisfied or return it" guarantee would cover my purchase after 16 years of use, but before long, the prospect of shopping for a new model filled me with gleeSo I searched, googled and binged and in the end, nothing could beat the Moulinex I ordered from Darty for 70€.Granted, it doesn't have a seed-dispenser, but I don't think I'll miss it.It does have a delayed start, so I can get my fill of brioche for breakfast![:P]And it has a jam program, so I can make use of the odd basketful of blackberries.And it has other programs I'll probably never use... Unsalted bread? (abomination! [+o(])I might have a go at pasta-making in it (does that mean I should buy a pasta-rolling thingie?[8-)])It arrives tomorrow (if the lady from La Poste can be bothered to bring it)... [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Just wondering how much butter and flour you use in your brioche recipe?I make two sorts of brioche, one I call paysanne, which is lovely for a Tropezienne and hasn't got 'that much' butter in it, but another which is so full of butter that it has to be refridgerated before I start to handle it and form it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Below is my usual recipe for the bread-maker brioche. I use another recipe when making by hand, as I make a batch of dough which I keep in the fridge to use over 4-5 days.1 sachet of fast acting yeast (Briochin in France, not traditional, not de boulanger)500g T45 flour (that's cake making flour, not bread flour)75g castor sugar (sucre cristallisé)1 sachet vanilla sugar (sucre vanillé) or ¼ tsp vanilla extract (not essence, yuk)60g diced butter1tsp salt (keep away from sugar and yeast in the mixing bowl)2 large eggs / 3 medium, beaten in a measuring jugenough cold milk to bring top the egg mix in the jug to 340ml1tbsp orange flower water (eau de fleur d'oranger) (can be replaced with same of rhum) mixed with the beaten eggs - optionalThe liquid must not exceed 340ml in total.Bake as a basic white loaf, light crust (as the sugar will brown the top), XLG size. The brioche will rise a lot.Delicious on day 1; very nice on day 2; toast on day 3... if any left, [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 After such long service and faithful duty, and supporting you abuse, I hope you will give the old one a decent burial. Remember, it comes to us all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 [quote user="woolybanana"]After such long service and faithful duty, and supporting you abuse, I hope you will give the old one a decent burial. Remember, it comes to us all![/quote]Abuse? What abuse?[blink]The thing tried to incinerate itself... [:'(]Mr Clair tried to perform surgery today, but the organs are too damaged... The whole interior is covered in brown smelly gunk.After the dough rose, it dropped over the outside of the cooking bowl onto the heating element at the bottom of the machine. The machine carried on cooking as usual and the dough on the element just burnt inside the machine.I can still smell it... [+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Madame, referring to you earlier posts, might I point out, with all discretion and firmness and no possibility of compromise, that you admitted to overloading the said machine, in your greed and perhaps drunken malfeasance, said machine having given many, nay, a multitude, of years of service, and that despite your attempts to justify your action and to pass the guilt to an innocent machine, you and probably the mysterious Mr Clair are clearly guilty of loyalmachiniside and should be punished accordingly. So, baby, admit yer guilt and we might go easy on you, otherwise it is Sing Sing for Birds and explain youself to Bobo, an' He is not so forgiving!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 [quote user="woolybanana"]Madame, referring to you earlier posts, might I point out, with all discretion and firmness and no possibility of compromise, that you admitted to overloading the said machine, in your greed and perhaps drunken malfeasance, said machine having given many, nay, a multitude, of years of service, and that despite your attempts to justify your action and to pass the guilt to an innocent machine, you and probably the mysterious Mr Clair are clearly guilty of loyalmachiniside and should be punished accordingly. So, baby, admit yer guilt and we might go easy on you, otherwise it is Sing Sing for Birds and explain youself to Bobo, an' He is not so forgiving!![/quote]I'll admit to grioche (greed of brioche) and totally deny drunken malfeasance. And you have no witnesses anyway! Pah!Mr Clair was merely being curious, you know, morbidly attracted to anything mechanical/electrical which it doesn't work...It's probably his fault the whole thing happened anyway...He probably distracted me when I was weighing the flour, or measuring the yeast or something... [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Great Bobo, ladies and machines, oil and water![:P][:P][kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 You've got to let go, there is another life, I mean machine, waiting out there for you , you have to move on, trust me [:P][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Yes, she has to, of course, after interrogatiion, a sharing the guilt, a time of penance too, and punishment. Then, if all is well, she can be allowed to get her guilty hands on another machine, UNDER SUPERVISION, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 You're both too late! [:P]My new machine is on its way to me as I type!! [:D][:D]I'll treasure it and polish it as much as I did the Panasonic and hope it will live just as long, if not longer!So there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 jj, I'll call the machine Police if you manage the postal intercept; this old bird is a danger to all machines out there and needs to be stopped; bit like a blind pensioner still driving!! WE HAVE TO STOP HER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Wools, it's too late, we have to accept as the finance chaps its way to Chinois, it's the state of nation, get out while you can, save yourself if you can . . . I'm so sorry[:(][:P][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 LOL Clair that recipe'll have to go in my file under dieters brioche, even my paysanne brioche has twice that butter in it. And my riche one is to 500grs of flour 250grs of butter and 5 eggs and 50grs sugar.Good luck with your new machine. I have never considered getting one, I reckon I must just like getting my hands 'dirty'.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Doudoune, speak not her name, it is Shame and Destruction and unworthy of this world. Bobo is working on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 We were just too late, of course there will be an inquiry and realistically no way can the authorities be blamed for what occurred . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 She must have used fraud and false documents to get past the system, JJ. A sort of Mata Hari of the domestic machine age. perhaps the NSAMA could stop her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Be serious for a moment you two. Clair, when is the funeral? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 The buggler will probably try to save on funeral expenses and dump the body somewhere in the night. SHAME, SHAME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 [quote user="Clair"]You're both too late! [:P]My new machine is on its way to me as I type!! [:D][:D]I'll treasure it and polish it as much as I did the Panasonic and hope it will live just as long, if not longer!So there![/quote]You'll be lucky! They don't make machines like they used too![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 [quote user="Frecossais"]Be serious for a moment you two. Clair, when is the funeral?[/quote]The trip to the tip will be on Tuesday.It'll be private and unaccompanied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 What a way to go, no memorial service, unmarked grave, not even a handful of flour to mark the departure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 That's the trouble these days wooly; easy come easy go, chuck it away, get another.You give a lifetime's service working your fingers to the bone and then, when you need a bit of decent respect, phoof, nothing, rien, nada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 [quote user="woolybanana"]What a way to go, no memorial service, unmarked grave, not even a handful of flour to mark the departure.[/quote]Family flours only...?[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 [quote user="You can call me Betty"][quote user="woolybanana"]What a way to go, no memorial service, unmarked grave, not even a handful of flour to mark the departure.[/quote]Family flours only...?[:)][/quote]Doughnations to....................[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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