Einkorn  is an ancient relative of modern wheat that makes a nice loaf. The recipe I used was based on one provided by Doves Farm  adapted for my machine.  The Dove's recipe cautions against kneading the dough after mixing. After some experimenting, I found that 6 minutes of the manual "Bread Kneading" program was enough to thoroughly mix the ingredients. My machine doesn't have an automatic program that appears suitable although the Rye program #12 might be OK with just 10 minutes kneading. I chose to use the manual programming technique I described here  and the full recipe is here

As I got into breadmaking, I discovered that bread wasn't simply white or brown, there are ancient grains such as  Spelt  and  Einkorn . Annoyingly, my SD-YR2550 doesn't have a program for Spelt, I should have bought the SD-YR2540 for that.  A solution (for Spelt) is to use Program #1 on my SD-YR2550   which is for a Basic White (Wheat) Loaf. This sort of works but the crust comes out very hard and brittle. The fix is to manually stop the machine 10 minutes early which shortens the "bake" part of the program.  Other grains/flours have more tricky requirements. They want more/less kneading or different rise times. There's no way that I could see of (say) shortening the knead time to the 5 minutes that Einkorn prefers. Could I add my own programs?  Perhaps there was even an  API ? Turns out, there isn't one but there are some manual Programs that excited my inner geek! Number Name Timing available 30 Bread Kneading 1 - 20...

 In Autumn 2025, I noticed that my partner and I were getting through a lot of bread and that it was a bit of a chore making sure we had reasonably fresh bread every day for breakfast toast and lunchtime sandwiches. Just about every other food could be managed by a couple of supermarket visits/orders every week. Then I stumbled on an article in Which? about breadmakers, identified the Panasonic SD-YR2550 as a good choice, bought one and I've been making bread most days ever since. As I am an exploring and scientific person, I've tried lots of different recipes and ingredients and had some delicious bread. It's also in my nature to write about things I discover that might interest others. Hence, this section of my website, "Harris on Bread". There are two interlinked parts to it: A blog which you're looking at now bread.steveharris.uk Some selected bread recipes indexed at  steveharris.uk/bread