I'm trying to make vegan bread but all of my bread maker machine's recipies have one or two tablespoons of milk powder. What is a vegan solution?
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Thank you Dougal. Great link and so quickly supplied :-) – SJF Feb 01 '17 at 08:01
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Not a problem, actually they looked good enough for us non-vegans, so I will have to say thank you for the question. – dougal 5.0.0 Feb 01 '17 at 08:37
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Bread is vegan by default, milk or milk powder is a rare ingredient. – GdD Feb 01 '17 at 11:49
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GdD. Great info. – SJF Feb 02 '17 at 12:04
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@SJF , welcome to the site! Let me encourage you to take the [tour] and browse our [help] for more information on how the site and the whole Stack Exchange system works. We usually avoid "thanks messages" (nevertheless I appreciate yours below). Our mechanisms to express agreement are votes and, if we are the askers, usually accepting one answer. The latter not being mandatory, though. – Stephie Feb 02 '17 at 12:18
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3Possible duplicate of Why is milk powder used in bread machine recipes? – ESultanik Feb 03 '17 at 04:29
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A basic bread is
- flour
- water
- yeast or sourdough
- (salt)
With these base ingredients, just by varying flour type, ratios and preparation method, you already get a wide range of breads, whether made by hand, kneaded in a mixer or dumped in a bread maker.
Extra ingredients influence the crumb texture and / or the taste of your bread. Including some fat, for example, makes the crumb "fluffier", using milk instead of or in addition to water gives finer pores and alters the taste a bit.
If all recipes that came with your bread maker include milk powder, I'd assume this to be a quirk of the author, not a necessity. I'd simply leave it out. You could add a teaspoon or so of vegan fat, but I don't think it's essential, especially if your recipe already has some.
Feel free to ask more specific questions, if the results aren't what you'd want them to be.
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The answers I have received on this site have been great. From those (tried multiple times) my fail-safe vegan bread machine bread is: 2.5 tsp yeast 437.5g HG flour 1T sugar 1.5 tsp salt 1.5 cups cold water [In that order] NON FAIL! – SJF Feb 11 '17 at 11:54