I haven’t abandoned this, but don’t do it very often, more-so making white spelt bread with bagged flour in the bread machine sometimes, and making a “no knead” sort of bread with the info available online in many places, just water, salt, yeast, flour mixed up, sits for several hours, then is baked in a pre-heated closed casserole dish in a very hot oven. My biggest desire now is to perfect that no knead bread with soaking in yogurt and my attempts haven’t been nice turnouts, for sure. I haven’t tried it in a few weeks, and will be trying again soon.

The other idea I can give you is that to use the bread machine you do have to have some flour and water in the recipe to mix in I think, so you can try using 1 cup of soaked flour and ajust your recipe around that, how much flour and water (or yogurt) is in the soaked mixture can be deleted from the recipe, as long as the bread machine is checked at different times to be sure and add water or flour as needed.

You can come up with a happy medium if you make bread often enough, with trial and error (most errors are edible, just not pretty, sometimes partially non-edible) I just don’t have any “bread machine standards” I can give you, it’s an art to make bread, and bread machines aren’t really art machines, so using non-standards in the bread machine makes for artsy bread but with much human intervention, unlike most bread machine recipes call for.

I see you wrote this 2 years ago. I’m in the beginning stages of making my own bread. I just got a bread machine but have wanted to soak my flour before baking. Have you come up with a final recipe for soaking your flour and then making it in a bread machine?

Thanks so much,

diana