TIPS ON USING YOUR BREAD MACHINE
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Tips on Dark Breads
Special Glazes for
Yeast Breads
Tips on Dark Breads
Breads made with whole-grain flours, such as whole wheat, or rye, require a bit more tender loving care
to insure that they achieve the height of deliciousness.
Notice that some whole-grain breads may also call for substantial amounts of bread flour, too. That’s
because the darker flours need to be "lightened" with a white flour for the best-tasting, best-looking loaf.
Special Glazes for Yeast Breads
Give your just-baked bread a professional finish. Select one of these special glazes to enhance your
bread.
Egg Glaze: Beat 1 egg and 1 tablespoon of water together, brush generously over top crust of bread.
Melted Butter Crust: Brush melted butter over just-baked bread for softer, tender crust.
Milk Glaze: For a softer, shinier crust, brush just-baked bread with milk or cream.
Sweet Icing: Mix 1 cup sifted powdered sugar with 1 to 2 tablespoons milk to make a smooth glaze;
drizzle over raisin bread or sweet breads.
Poppy/Sesame/Caraway Seed/Cornmeal/Oatmeal: Sprinkle your choice of these seeds generously over
just glaze bread.
Measuring Ingredients
It is most important for the best possible result every time you bake bread, that you measure accurately
and correctly. Dry ingredients such as flour and sugar need to be measured in "nested" measuring cups of
the type that fit inside each other. They come as 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, and 1 cup.
Liquid measuring cups are usually made of transparent glass or plastic with the line marking the
gradations.
The Zojirushi Home Bakery Junior comes equipped with a measuring cup and spoon. USE THE
MEASURING CUP FOR LIQUIDS ONLY: it measures up to 1 cup when filled to the very brim. The
measuring spoon has a small and large side. The large side measures 1 tablespoon to top: it measures 1/2
tablespoon or 1-1/2 teaspoons to the halfway mark on that side. The smaller side of measuring spoon
measures 1 teaspoon to the top and 1/2 teaspoon to the half mark.
How to Measure the Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
1. Spoon the dry ingredients into the cup filling it to overflowing. Do not press or shake down.
2. Level by sweeping off the excess with a knife.
To measure 3/4 cup flour, for example, fill and level the 1/2 and the 1/4 measuring cups. Spices and
small amounts of dry and liquid ingredients are measured in measuring spoon which comes with unit.
Be sure to level off the same way.
Liquid:
1. The liquid should be poured into the cup while the cup is placed on a flat surface and measured at eye
level.
Special Assistance
If you have any questions, please call our Customer Service Dept. at (213) 722-1700 or (800) 733-6270.
