The Prepared Pantry Honey Whole Wheat Bread Mix; Single Pack; For Bread Machine or Oven

delicious sourdough bread using my bread machine. Very tasty and I froze the bread and enjoyed some very good sandwiches later. Easy to use the regular settings. I had no trouble when I use the temperature recommendations and the regular settings. it is a little pricey for a loaf of bread, but I will buy again. the fresh bread taste and smells great. All the ingredients are included except the water, so it was very satisfying for me and very good sourdough.

This mix is perfect if you want good sourdough bread from your machine. It makes a large loaf with an excellent flavor and texture. My machine has a sourdough setting and I have tried the starter, and have decided my level of dedication falls short of going this route. The dry sourdough packs are OK, but don't measure up to this mix, and you just use to basic bread setting, which takes about half the time of the soursough setting on my machine. And it's way cheaper and better than alternatives available on Amazon, ie Krusteaz.

This worked very well in my Zojirushi bread machine. I added additional rosemary to the mix and it turned out beautiful. We devoured it in two days and for the last few pieces I cut it into squares, drizzled olive oil and butter over them and put them in the air fryer to make croutons for our soup.

The mix itself is excellent. I used it in a bread machine, so keep this in mind. The flavor is excellent compared to the zero-fiber, over-yeasted rip-off paste you get at the supermarket.But...there are three things you should know:1) Do not follow the recipe with the butter. Three pounds of butter in a 1.5-pound loaf makes bread-flavored butter-soup. I suggest a half-stick of butter instead. (Unsalted, since the mix has tons of sodium in it.) Maybe only a little in the mix--just split the loaf when it's done and put the melted butter into the slit. I don't know--get creative.2) The included yeast was dead. If you're doing the bread machine thing like I did, just pop over to the grocery store and buy some Fleischmann's bread machine yeast. A lot of the bad reviews for this product are obviously due to too much butter in a loaf that didn't rise because of dead yeast. As I test, I remixed my deflated test loaf with Fleishmann's yeast, re-cooked it and it rose respectability. Case closed.3) Don't beat yourself up with the water temp if you're using a bread machine. Fresh yeast (like from a grocery store, where it moves off the shelf), will be fine at any temp from like 80 to 120 degrees. Anyway, if you're dumping the water at the bottom of bread machine's pan, it will be cooled to room temp because the pan is *metal*, and radiates the heat away immediately. The bread machine supplies the correct temp during the kneading and rise cycles. The initial water temp has very little to do with the actual temp of the mix when it's time to rise. Think about it.Also: Be careful how much water you put into the bread machine's pan. If you're putting a lot of butter in the mix, the water content of the butter counts toward the '1 cup' of water the instructions reference. Bread dough should be sticky and firm, and if rolled up in a ball it should stay in form--mostly. If it's too runny, it won't hold its shape during the rise phase, and the CO2 that yeast is producing will escape, and leave behind a deflated loaf of bread. Really just common sense.

This bread mix has great flavor and is very convenient. I just bought a new bread maker and was looking for bread mixes.

I'm very happy with the products I ordered. The bread was super-good! The shipment just took longer than expected to get here.

I made this bread not sure what I was expecting, but it was very pale and looked doughy. It was cooked thoroughly and was done, but it had a really dense texture, was very heavy. I sliced into and decided it was for toast only. Not a good sandwich bread. Others may like this, I will pass. Maybe I need to get a different bread machine?

Love the bread mix and have bought numerous times. Easy to make and tastes great!