Breadman tr550 I have a breadman TR550 and the recipe book that came with it. But the recipe book uses backing settings such as European and basic wheat light. I don't have these settings on my machine. What gives?

SOURCE: The bread maker recipe book

Check out this website for recipes:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Bread/Search.aspx?WithTerm=wheat%20bread

They have great recipes for with or without breadmaker.

SOURCE: Black and Decker Bread Maker B2250

Here's a good basic white bread recipe that works great with a BD2550 (and usually doesn't even **** the mixing blade into the bottom of the machine

1 cup warm (not hot) water
1/3 cup milk
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 tablespoons butter/margarine
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon yeast

Heat the water and add the milk to it. Dissolve the sugar and salt into this mix and pour the liquid into the bottom of the bread maker bucket (make sure the mixing blade is already in). Melt and add the butter to this mix. Add the 4 cups of flour directly on top, but do not mix it in. The flour will float on top of the liquid. Make a small dimple in the top of the flour in the middle with your finger and add the yeast into that little crater (at no point while adding ingredients do you let the yeast touch the liquid). Set the bread maker for basic setting 1, light crust, 2lb loaf and let it do it's thing. 3 hours later, you'll have a nice loaf of white bread with good consistency and density, and it usually leaves the mixing blade in the bucket (rather than having to dig it out of the loaf after).

Hope this helps!

SOURCE: breadman manual

HI Caine,

I recommend trying

http://www.breadmakerguru.com/

They have a very good selection, and there's a Breadman link that leads to a page of spare parts and manuals specific to the model you listed above. I'd recommend seriously considering any other parts they carry for your machine as well.

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SOURCE: i got a used TR550 and the bread pan is cracked

Bread pans are not usually available by manufacturers except if under warranty. . You could try finding one on ebay.

Hank

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• Posted on Feb 01, 2011

SOURCE: I received my breadmaker Christmas 2009. I have

Yes, many machines warm up a little when you choose the wheat setting, also if your manual shows the cycle times for the various programs you will probably notice a different Knead time (more) vs. the basic program and that is because whole wheat flour lacks enough gluten to make a nice, large, soft loaf, so to compensate it has a longer knead. Even with that though your whole wheat loaves are probably going to be shorter than a 100 whole wheat loaf.
Many bakers ( me included) add purchased wheat gluten and add that to the flour, (be sure to remove and equal amount of w. wheat flour from the recipe if you do this) to get a softer, higher, better texture loaf.