I used to make bread by hand when my children were growing up and would think nothing of hand kneading up a dozen loaves. Now that I'm older and have to live with this fatigue illness that I have I make no apologies for using a breadmaker to take the hard work out of baking homemade bread. My now adult children love my bread just as much as they did when they were small and the great thing about baking bread regularly is that it's way beyond anything that can be purchased at the supermarket and it's so easy on the household budget.
I made some garlic bread yesterday with my breadmaker. The recipe calls for 9 cloves of garlic for one loaf. It is great bread when toasted and buttered. I will try a grilled cheese for lunch today. WARNING: The whole house (and part of the neighbourhood) got stinky when baking.
Helpful Hint: Go to the nearest thrift shop and pick up an electric carving knife. It is the greatest thing to use to slice bread. Mine came with the original box and a wall mount for $3.99 from the Salvation Army thrift shop.
It's really easy to do, just take a standard can of baked beans in tomato sauce and add it into the rest of the ingredients. The only thing to watch is adjusting the quantity of the other liquids used (water, vege oil & etc) to allow for the tomato sauce. Rising times and baking times don't seem to be affected by the addition of baked beans and like I said above it makes a nice savoury loaf.Baked bean bread ----- heck, that would even surprise my friends!! I may have to experiment one of these days....