Hovis White Bread Mix

Review of Hovis White Bread Mix ~~The Product~~ This is an easy peasy mix for producing one loaf of white bread. I generally keep a couple of these mixes handy when we are travelling on our narrowboat, as sometimes we find ourselves in an area where shops are few and far between, bread seems to be the one staple that we run out of fairly regularly during our travels! The 495g pack will produce 1x 2lb loaf or 8 rolls. The only ingredient you need to add is water and even a 10 year old child can make it...in fact my 10 year old granddaughter has made it! ~~Packaging~~ The bread mix comes in a recyclable paper pouch. ...  Read the complete review

I buy this mix and the wholemeal one by Hovis to make bread in my breadmaker. I find it very useful to have a mix in the cupboard in case we run out of bread as we live 8 miles from the nearest shop. The mix costs 95p from the co-op and basically makes a 2lb loaf of bread when you add water and a small amount of butter to it. On the packet it tells you how much water to use, machines vary on whether the water or mix goes in first, in mine I put the water in first then the small amount of butter which is optional then the mix. I put it on a standard program with medium crust and leave it for a few hours while it cooks. The smell of fresh bread ...  Read the complete review

I have a Kenwood bread maker and find this type of bread mix is great for just throwing in with water and butter. It is in all honesty so much easier that measuring flour butter skimmed milk powder and yeast and baking the bread from fresh however in my opinion the bread made from scratch works out at around 40p per loaf although initially when buying the yeast the flour the butter the skimmed milk powder and of course the bread maker and electricity the initial cost is much higher. The ready made mixes are well worth it if you just want to throw it all in and they have a large variety of types of bread mix that you can buy The Hovis ones are especially good ...  Read the complete review

Costs between 75p and 95p (depending on where bought) for a 495g pack which makes one small loaf Nutritional Information: Calories: 140 per slice Sugars: 0.8g per slice Fat: 3.2g per slice Saturates: 1.4g per slice Salt: 0.64g per slice NB: According to the information on the packet, a slice counts as approximately 1/12th of a cooked loaf. Ingredients: Wheat flour, salt, dried yeast, emulsifiers (mono and diacetyl tartaric acid, esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, sorbitan monostearate), vegetable oil, improving agent (calcium sulphate), dextrose, flour treatment agent (ascorbic ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit to being rather lazy with my baking of late, and taking a few shortcuts. The Hovis bread mix has been one of them, rather than messing around buying bread flour and yeast, then fermenting the yeast etc, I thought I'd give the all in one mix a try. Using it couldn't be simpler, empty the entire contents into a bowl, add 10 fl oz of warm water (you can rub in an ounce of butter first if you like, but I didn't) and mix. Once you've got a dough you need to knead for 10 minutes (or 5 if you're using an electric kneader), then put in a greased tin for about 1 and a half hours to rise. Now that is how Hovis tell you to rise the dough. I ...  Read the complete review