Donna Kossy wrote:
>
> I'm an old hat at bread machine baking. I've had two different machines
> that worked great (Panasonic & Breadman). My Breadman machine pan has been
> wearing out, so when I saw a nearly unused Hitachi for $15 at a thrift
> store, I grabbed it. It's an HB-D102.
>
> I've made two loaves so far, just white bread, neither rose much at all.
> For the first loaf, I tried the rapid setting on an old recipe that had
> worked well in the Breadman. I used lukewarm water. The second loaf, I
> stuck to the white bread recipe in the manual (which recommended using
> COLD water), & used the regular (not rapid) setting, and that one didn't
> rise either. In fact it was even worse than the first loaf.

This is probably an obvious question, but have you made sure that the
machine's rise cycle is properly working? My sister had a defective
bread machine which would heat during the bake cycle but not during the
rise cycle, so all she got out of it was hockey pucks. She ended up
garage-saling it in hopes that someone could fix it.

HellT