Bread, Bread, Bread
After seriously considering the possibility of going the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day route, I decided on a bread machine after all. In fact, I hadn't completely made up my mind - I was waiting to see how the ABiFMaD route worked out for Elizabeth, who bought that book about 30 seconds after I added it to my GoodReads to-read list. But then a barely-used Williams-Sonoma bread machine showed up on Craigslist for cheap, and I pounced. Since then, I've made two wheat loaves, one banana loaf, and one white loaf, and there's another white loaf mixing now.
I
love
my
bread
machine.
Everything has been 100% yummy. The measuring of the ingredients gets easier every time (I have approximately four prior baking experiences, and therefore very little skill parsing the Tbsp's from the tsp's). I think it is a real possibility that we could give up store-bought loaves.
And the best part? In an hour, the house is going to smell like fresh bread again. Mmm mmm.
8 response(s):
Sounds fabulous!
Also wanted to mention, I love your dedication liturgy below, quite wonderful. Hope it went well.
yummy.
I love both.. I checked out the book from the library, but I also like "No need to knead bread."
But then again the machine is lovely.
Who am I kidding? all bread is lovely.
i am hesitating on the bread making/machining whathaveyou. i have serious willpower issues with bread as in...how about i eat that entire loaf with some nutella and we'll call it a day?
enjoy :)
I am going to get out my bread machine. Right now.
we got a bread machine for our wedding and i go in spurts of loving it and ignoring it.
i'm currently in a loving it phase, but i'm ready to branch out of the recipes that came in the "cookbook" that came with my machine.
what size loaves do you make?
the only bad part is that i never think to start a loaf of bread until around 4pm, and then it's nearly 8pm before it's ready to eat, making it impossible to get the kids in bed by their usual 7:30, because that's when the house is smelling SO yummy. :)
Oh so glad to read this! I keep pondering making my own bread but I need the kick in the pants. Thank girl!
We received a bread machine as a wedding gift, and I loved it! Then I went and forgot to remove the kneader thingie from the bottom of the loaf and accidentally threw it out when we didn't get through a loaf before it went stale. You're inspiring me to get on the phone and order the replacement part, because I too miss the smell and taste of fresh-baked bread!
I love my bread machine too. You can't believe some of the cool recipes there are for bread machines. My greatest triumph was a sour rye bread made with -- I kid you not -- a quarter cup of cider vinegar in the dough. If only I could find that recipe again. My goal is to someday learn how to adapt my hand-knead recipes to my machine.
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