Bread Making - MOMMBY

After making 3 loaves of bread last week, we still had leftovers this week so I passed on making additional bread. I plan to make a new loaf this weekend so I can still keep with my goal of one new loaf a week.

Friday, January 1, 2009

I tried out one of my favorite 2009 Christmas presents, our bread maker! Making bread sounds like a very time consuming process but not when you have a bread maker. :) According to the instruction manual all you do is pour in wet ingredients, then dry ingredients (excluding the yeast), and then you poke a hole in the dry ingredients with your finger and pour in the yeast. I thought this sounded simple enough until my husband asked me did they include sugar as a wet ingredient? Who knew in baking terms sugar is considered a wet ingredient? I didn't. (According to my bread machine instruction booklet sugar is considered a dry ingredient.)

You turn on the machine select what type of bread (French, Whole Wheat...) and what type of crust (Light, Medium, Dark) and it kneeds the dough, lets the dough rise, then kneads again...and eventually it bakes the bread. About three - four hours later you have a fresh loaf of bread.

I decided my goal is to make one NEW type of bread every week for the entire year. At first I was going to be very adventurous and make one new type every day but then I remembered I don't want me or my family to eat that much bread. So I think one new loaf a week is a more realistic goal. As it turns out I ended up making 3 new types of bread this week:

1) Whole Wheat - 1/2 organic whole wheat 1/2 regular bread flour (organic unbleached) and standard ingredients (milk, butter, sugar, salt, yeast). We ate this with spaghetti (it made great homemade garlic bread).

2) French Bread - Organic bread flour and standard ingredients except this used water in place of milk and olive oil in place of butter. We ate this on New Year's Day with our traditional New Year's Day meal of pork, sauerkraut, ribs, and mashed potatoes.

3) Dough - to use in cheesy artichoke triangles for my party and with the leftover dough I made homemade cinnamon rolls.

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