Peter,

Do you have any books or recipes that help in understanding how to use this
mixer and roller/scraper to its potential?

Thanks,

Jim
Maine

"Peter" > wrote in message
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>
> qahtan wrote:
> > Does any one have or know any thing about this machine.
> > http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/mag..._dlx_mixer.asp
> > Although I understand it works very well on bread dough's,
> > how does it fair on things like fruit cakes and similar,
> > There is a plastic bowl and whisk that fits to the machine but one
> can't mix
> > a fruit cake with a whisk, can they????
> > Thanks for any information about this machine.
>
> Mine came with two sets of tools; a roller/scraper and a dough hook.
> There are lot's of additional tools available such as a mixer/blender,
> citrus fruit press, vegetable slicer, meat mincer, hole
> discs+knifes+sausage pipe, strainer, grater, pasta attachment, flake
> mill, grain mill and more...
>
> I mainly use mine to make bread doughs and for that I use - depending
> on the amount - either of the two tools that I bought mine with.
>
> The roller/scraper is very efficient and you can adjust how much the
> roller can move inside the bowl when the bowl rotates. This is good for
> doughs up to one litre of liquid, for mixing ingredients for soft
> cakes, mixing minced meat with other ingredients, mincing
> potatoes/vegetables and raft of other things
>
> The dough hook us useful for bigger doughs and for larger quantities of
> minced meat.
>
> I havn't tried any of the other tools but I'm thinking of the pasta
> dough attachment to make fresh pasta :-)
>
> A friend of mine got his unit from his grandmother who bought it some
> 40 years ago; still works just fine ;-) and the new attachments and
> tools still fits!
>