Coffee anyone ?

[drstratton]

I wish I could make bread. I'm not good with dough.

All it takes is a little practice. I've gone through a lot of failures, before I started to have success. You can do it!

 

[drstratton]

My grandmother didn't measure, or use recipes, how much has changed. I'm like her, a seat-of-the-pants cook as well.

I don't measure for a lot of things, but baking is one that I do. Except for my mom's wheat bread recipe. That one, I learned to use the eyeball and feel method.

 

[Alaskan]

Tried a new Sourdough sandwich loaf recipe today. It turned out so good. Hubs wants me to keep making it. He had a tuna sandwich and really enjoyed it.

Here's the link to the recipe if anyone is interested.
Bread flour, water, salt, avocado oil and honey.

Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread Recipe - Muscle Momma Sourdough

Bake the best soft sourdough sandwich bread with this simple beginner recipe. Fluffy, light, and perfect for everyday sandwiches and toast.

musclemommasourdough.com

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Very good looking! I made bread yesterday.... didn't work the way I wanted it to... didn't rise as much as it should have... so I thought I would make more today... I put the yeast in the warm water... and a bit later looked at it and was all "huh, that ain't right". I asked kid to come look (he also bakes bread), and asked him, "that looks wrong... correct?" He said yep! Then he asked if they yeast was too old... he found the jar...yep... old.

I thought it worked fine 2 months ago.

 

[Alaskan]

I find for cakes and fancy baked goods measuring is very important. But I have found that for bread it doesn't matter that much. Without carefully following the recipe, you will probably still get bread... just maybe not the kind of bread you were aiming for.

 

[Blue Sky]

Alas I am wedded to a bread machine. I got one for a wedding gift and Hubbs loved it. So did our Rottweiler. He would sit expectantly sniffling the aroma as the bread was finishing. A bit of drool- never mind. He always got His Piece and was content with it. One day however I was busy outside and came in to find the bread machine (cooled thank goodness) on the floor and the loaf and dog missing. Guilty party was in the next room finishing off the bread. I needed to start another loaf but couldn’t find the mixing paddle which could become lodged in the loaf. Looked at the dog who was at the water bucket washing down his treat. Thankfully I had an extra paddle because when the other one showed up in about a day and a half I wasn’t inclined to use it.
Luckily it was rounded and teflon and caused no issues on its trip.
Ugh 1:30a. Why am I up?

 

[fuzzi]

I've lazed in bed long enough, reading articles. My chore list is full for today. Going to have DS load the push mower in my SUV so I can have it serviced.

But first...coffee...cats...Caleb. And chickens.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Up early, not a surprise. Red Bull and a quick breakfast and then I need to get a run in. And I never thought I would be so excited to need to go feed and water chickens.
Might do some baking, I want to, I just don't really have anyone to make cookies or stuff for.

 

[Baymule]

Tried a new Sourdough sandwich loaf recipe today. It turned out so good. Hubs wants me to keep making it. He had a tuna sandwich and really enjoyed it.

Here's the link to the recipe if anyone is interested.
Bread flour, water, salt, avocado oil and honey.

Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread Recipe - Muscle Momma Sourdough

Bake the best soft sourdough sandwich bread with this simple beginner recipe. Fluffy, light, and perfect for everyday sandwiches and toast.

musclemommasourdough.com

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The picture of your bread reminded me of an OCD trait my husband had. He didn't like bread with holes in it. He would pick up loaf after loaf at the store, fanning the slices, peering through the wrapping of the bag-with all the print on it-looking for holes and complaining about them.

Why? because when he made toast, the butter and honey leaked out through the holes and it drove him over the edge of despair. I;m sitting here laughing at the mental picture of him rejecting loaf after loaf until he found one with little to no holes.

 

[Mini Horses]

At 300'

 

[farmerjan]

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It was this and worse Tues and Wed here.... Could barely see the field across the road for a couple hours on Tuesday.