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I have self raising flour, milk, eggs and salt but no idea of the how, what when and why of the baking process.

A little help?

Mix up your ingerdients into dough. Then put some flour on a baking pan. Put your doughball on it. Wait a couple of hours as the dough rises. Then bake it. If I was my wife I could give you better details such as temperature and duration of baking but I have found that I bake everything at 350 for varying amounts of time so that should work.

Google bread recipes?

you cant use self rising flour.

thats for quick breads.

id recommend a trip to the store to buy a boxed yeast bread mix.

but if you have the original bag the flour came in it probably has a recipe for biscuits or simple muffins that you DO have the ingredients for.

take all the ingredients. Place them in a bowl. Throw said bowl out window. Place broken shards in oven. Bake for six hours at 350 degrees. Serves 1.

Seriously though, have you triedsearching the web? (http://www.cookingbread.com/)

Just eat the flour, milk, eggs and salt and your stomache will do the rest.

I have self raising flour, milk, eggs and salt but no idea of the how, what when and why of the baking process.

A little help?

Whoa! How long have you been back? Cuz I haven't seen you in ages!

I have self raising flour, milk, eggs and salt but no idea of the how, what when and why of the baking process.

A little help?Well, the only ingredient you listed that typically goes into bread is salt..

A basic bread consists of plain (not self-raising) flour, yeast, water and salt, along with excessive amounts of kneading and waiting around. Well, to be fair, it probably doesn't hurt to use milk instead of water and adding an egg does little harm either (it is used in some bread recipes). And while there little point to using self-raising flour, as far as the self-raising aspects goes, I don't see much harm from it either. But you need something like yeast.

Personally, though, from those ingredients, I'd make pancakes. Quicker too.

1. Go to local shop
2. Pay for a loaf of bread.
3. Eat bread.
4. ????
5. Profit

Use plain flour, about 250 grams, get your yeast, 1 sachet, depending on the type you either mix it with warm water(not boiling) or mix it with the dry ingrediants, and then add warm water.

Add a little suger, salt, and fat(oil, butter, whatever) mix with enough water to form a dough, a little sticky. Nead for at least ten mins, and I mean at least ten mins. neading should be done in a pushing and folding motion.

Leave in a warm place for an hour or so to rise. Now there are two schools of thought for the next bit, either punch the risen dough, put into a bread tin and leave for a further hour or so to rise, or place right into the bread tin and whack it into the oven. Hot heat for about 45 mins.

Easy.

Use plain flour, about 250 grams, get your yeast, 1 sachet, depending on the type you either mix it with warm water(not boiling) or mix it with the dry ingrediants, and then add warm water.

Isn't one sachet of yeast a bit much for 250 grams? I usually use half a sachet (so that'd be about 3.5 grams of dry yeast).

http://www.giftcorral.com/giftcorral/images/items/29492_reg.jpg

Isn't one sachet of yeast a bit much for 250 grams? I usually use half a sachet (so that'd be about 3.5 grams of dry yeast).

What about 2 grams? Naa perhaps you buy bigger sachets?

muffins > bread

Lemon chocolate chip muffins ftw!

I baked my first bread ever a week or so ago, and since then I've baked a bit every day, trying various types of flours and fat in different forms and amounts.

I don't have much to add to what the others have suggested so far, except that some seeds can make the bread much more fun. Try it!

You could make some lovely Scottish pancakes (or drop scones) from the ingredients you do have.

http://bakingforbritain.blogspot.com/2006/05/scotch-pancakes.html

save your rmilk and eggs for an omlette, get some regular flour and yeast and try this: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html (NYTimes site, so may need to sign in or use bugmenot.com to find a quick login)

Whoa! How long have you been back? Cuz I haven't seen you in ages!

Back since yesterday, when I quit my job and decided to live a simpler life dedicated to baking my own bread, growing my own vegetables and hunting, killing, disemboweling and rendering my own cattle. Sadly, I apparently fell at the first hurdle by buying this damn self raising flour, but on the plus side I had all these yummy pancakes for breakfast, so I call it a draw. Thanks y'all.

Lots of recipes here that would yield you a nice German bread. http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/bernd.gif

http://www.germanways.com/Deutsch_recipes.htm

...and rendering my own cattle.

Does this involve kidnapping them and flying them to a country where they can be tortured until they admit they are members of the bovine al-qai'da?

What about 2 grams? Naa perhaps you buy bigger sachets?Meh, they only sell one size here, afaik.. Suddenly some recipes on the net make a lot more sense.. Now if only they could give the amounts in something other than sachets so it's convertible.
(I suppose it's better to err on the side of less, because the yeast will multiply on it's own if you have too little)