Victory!

[kikotei]

I beat that bread machine at it's own game.  Ha! 

I've been struggling all summer trying to get a decent loaf out of it. Either the yeast is bad or I miss an ingredient. And it's nearly impossible to find the pre-done mixes anymore, some of which I LOVED like the Hawaiian sweet bread. I have to see if I can track down a recipe to make it from scratch.

Finally I think I got everything right. I have fresh flour, new yeast packets, and I made absolutely sure that each and every ingredient made it into the tray in the correct order. And it smells sooooo good.

Comments

[silvertales.livejournal.com]

Ooooh... I love Hawaiian sweet bread... I'd love to make in our bread machine. I didn't even know there was a premade box mix for it! Let me know if you find the recipe!

[kikotei.livejournal.com]

I found three reasonable sounding recipes.

This one was for Portuguese sweet bread (http://www.hawaii.edu/recipes/breads/portuguese.html) which is essentially the same thing.

This one (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29139.asp).

And this one (http://bakingsheet.blogspot.com/2006/02/cooking-school-hawaiian-sweet-bread.html).

You would obviously have to adjust the order of the ingredients to use with the bread machine, but that's do-able.

Oh, also, I've been meaning to talk to you about that mad plan I had to make little cross-stitch versions of your chibis. I'll try to remember to email you later. ::will probably forget in the next five minutes::