My old DAK bread baker

[eleny]

I purchased a bread maker from a catalog company back around 1990. It's a DAK bread bakery. That's a picture of one below. I see some on ebay that are made by Welbuilt. So they must be the manufacturer.

In hunting for some pictures, I came across a DAK site where I could even order parts. Everything but the beater, which is metal and I doubt will ever break. I guess that "Drew" is still going strong. And so is my bread maker. It's making a whole wheat bread this afternoon. I'm going to try to use up a lot of what I've got in my pantry. Tonight, after the baker cools down, I'm going to make Drew's Famous Onion Dill Bread. Just for old time's sake.

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1. i think mine is on the fritz because of the weather here

we are in "winter" mode which means the house heats up a lot in the day

I need to try another loaf early in the morning and see if it works the whole cycle

lucky I did some research and found out it will shut itself down if the room temp is over 85. I was ready to tear it open to see what "broke" lol

[eleny]

2. Shutting down would be a bummer in mid cycle

The whole wheat loaf came out good. I set the machine outside for 10 minutes to cool down completely. I just put the onion dill bread in and it's doing the first knead. The kitchen smells good with that dill in there.

Here's the recipe in case you get set back up. I only used some dried dill weed. Maybe 1/2 teaspoon.
http://clickoncuernavaca.com/Cocina/Onion%20Dill%20Bread.htm

This was Originally called Drew's Famous Onion Dill Bread in the recipe book that came with my first bread Machine. One the commonly called the R2D2 from Dak as it had the glass dome. I have to say that this recipe book still has some real gems in it. This is a very moist soft bread.

1 1/2 tsp Yeast
3 1/3 cups Bread Flour
1 1/2 tsp Salt
1 unbeaten egg
1/4 tsp baking soda

Mix together warm and add

1/4 cup water water
3/4 cup cottage cheese
3/4 cup sour cream
3 Tbls sugar
3 Tbls minced dried onion
2 Tbls whole dill weed (I am not wild about the dill flavor so I use 1)
1 1/2 Tbls butter or Margarine

In the order listed place the dry ingredients in the bread pan. Lightly warm the liquid ingredients (should be the same temp as a baby's bottle) add to the bread pan. Start.

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3. sounds good. Wonder if I could use basil instead (we're not big dill fans)

I have basil growing so it will be available all summer

it actually turned out OK when the bread maker quit. I noticed it had shut down and the bread was already mixed so I just let it rise in an oiled bowl, punched it down an hour later and put it in the loaf pan to rise again and it baked up very well. So well in fact I think I'm only going to use the bread maker for dough in the future (unless I'm making it while I'm away)

There was always something about the shape and the big hole in the bottom where the paddle was that bugged me about bread maker bread loaves

[eleny]

4. Basil sounds good

I think the dried onion and the basil would be tasty together. I was considering substituting a sprinkling of other dried seasonings. So why not try whatever you have handy.

I know what you mean about round loaves. But since we don't use this for sandwiches too often, it works out okay. I have lots of flour and will be making Italian breads for a while.

I found my old recipe book for this bread baker. But what's so nice is that recipes are only as far away as the computer.

Nice that your bread came out well!