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No yeast - help

Pinkally's picture
Pinkally

No yeast - help

Hi everyone, 

I bought a bread maker and have never made bread or baked at all really.

My question is I want to bake bread but I don't have any yeast and can't get any from anywhere.

The ingredients I have are as follows

self-raising flour

plain flour

bicarbonate of soda

baking powder

salt

Can I bake bread out of that?

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks and take care.

Allison

idaveindy's picture
idaveindy

You could make hard tack, using just  water, flour, salt,

You could make "soft tack" with the self raising flour ( or baking powder in the regular flour) either baked, or on the stove top like a thick pancake without eggs.

"Bannock" is another name for what I call "soft tack".   A little oil helps, but not absolutely required..  Baked or cooked in a pan on the range (stove top.)

Indian Fry Bread is a good "comfort food".  Use a deep fryer or any pot or pan that can hold about 1.5 to 2" of oil.  Use self raising flour, or regular flour, baking powder, salt, water.  Use less baking powder than you think, or it puffs up too much,  In Utah, USA they call these "scones" for some reason.  I usually make these 3" to 4" in diameter with the dough about 1/4" thick.

Update: Indian fry bread recipes here: 

Scones.  (real scones, or even Utah scones.) 

You could make muffins. Don't necessarily need sugar, oil or eggs.  Though a little oil helps.  I usually make muffins withOUT sugar and eggs.

You could make crackers.

If you have oil, or butter, or margarine, or Crisco, you could make biscuits, or even better muffins and crackers.

If you have milk and vinegar, (or buttermilk) you could make  Irish soda bread in the oven.  Might be able to use the dough cycle of the bread machine to mix, cancel it after mixing and before the rise part of the cycle.  And -might- be able to use the bake cycle, but I've never tried it (soda bread in the bread machine.)    Personally, I've never found a soda bread recipe that I liked.

With oil, or butter, or crisco, or lard, you could make tortillas.  Here's the best tortilla recipe I've ever made: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3VZcRJkl4

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If you can beg or borrow some whole wheat or rye flour, you could make your own sourdough starter. [grin] ?

 

Pinkally's picture
Pinkally

Thanks for your full reply. I will try some of these.

 

Mini Oven's picture
Mini Oven

like natural raisins or apples or maybe some cabbage or basil leaves or let's see.... 

there is a chance you can make your own yeast but I can't guarantee it works in a bread machine.  You'd have to hand make it!  That's more fun anyway.  :)

I also think you could make a sourdough starter from plain flour.  Where are you that an internet order cant bring you bread machine yeast?  Antarctica? 

colinm's picture
colinm

Sadly, yeast is out of stock almost everywhere. I tried to buy some last week for my usual pizza dough and failed completely.

I hope that means that lots of people are busy baking.

Pinkally's picture
Pinkally

Yeast is out of stock everywhere due to the coronavirus and the stockpiling.

thanks for your reply.

clazar123's picture
clazar123

Irish soda bread sounds like a perfect solution! Just make it in a bowl. Make farls (biscuits/scones) in a frying pan if you do not want to heat up the stove. Shape in a loaf pan if you want square pieces.

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/11028/sylvia0395-irish-soda-bread

Cream of tartar is an acid in powder form. Sub some baking powder which is a mix of baking soda and cream of tartar. Remember that baking soda has a flavor so you might want to decrease the baking soda if you sub in baking powder. (Perhaps 1 tsp Baking Powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda? )

No buttermilk? No problem!! Just make your own. The recipe depends on an acid (buttermilk/sour milk) to interact with the soda to bubble and raise the bread.

Buttermilk substitute/Soured milk

To 1 cup of any kind of milk add1-2 teaspoons vinegar or lemon juice. Let sit a few minutes to curdle a bit. Use as a substitute for buttermilk. It works better if milk is tepid.

Time to experiment!

 

Pinkally's picture
Pinkally

Thanks for your reply and suggestions. i will try them out and see what happens. 

Mini Oven's picture
Mini Oven

Directly for immediate results.  And you can also use sauerkraut to make a sourdough starter.  One of my refrigerated wheat starters is sauerkraut started.  The other wheat starter is made originally from yeast water (apples.)

Each has ts own distinkt aroma and timings. 

Raw sauerkraut, not canned or vacuum packaged.