Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe?
the_wonderfool@piefed.social 4 days ago
As I see that others already answered with valuable replies I’m going a bit off topic… But seriously, 42 grams of sugar? Butter? How can this be called bread and not cake?
English language with no French, cups as measurement and extra sugar in a bread recipe all point at this being a US recipe book.
They love extra sugar in bread over there. At some point the sugar lobby got in bed with the big breadmakers and since it's addictive, it's now an expectation and a self-fulfilling cycle.
So yeah, US bread is closer to cake than, say, European bread.
And that milk powder isn't helping the case much either.
English language with no French
What would English language with French point to?
Canadian. I know that it's only supposed to be product labelling, not recipes, that has to be bilingual, and the inclusion of gram measurements did make me uncertain, but the sugar is what tipped the balance.
I could be wrong and it's Canadian or I've missed something about another Anglophone country also putting sugar in bread.
Right, Canada. Didn‘t notice the grams, this actually convinces me of a non-US origin.
That’s exactly the difference between pigs and pork.
Maybe it’s for the yeast?
Judging by the downvotes, we apparently don’t like seeing questions here.
Flour alone already has enough carbohydrates to feed the yeast. Most basic breads are made with just flour, water, yeast, and salt.
My bread machine has recipes like this. I just leave out the sugar and milk powder, and use a glug of oil instead of butter. Also use bread flour so no need for extra gluten. Makes a very nice loaf.
Oh shit, yeh. I put less than 2 tbsp with 600g of flour.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
This looks like what we would call “milk bread” - very slightly sweet bread that you’d get on special occasions.
Cake would be a lot more sugar, and probably eggs.