I did it!! I did it!!!!I did it!!!!I made homemade
bread!!!Without a bread
machine!!!!And it tasted good!!!!!And there was no cursing!!!! Just lots of flour and cornmeal everywhere!! And my family inhaled it and is begging for
moreJGoal for the year well on the way.
My goal was to learn to make bread so I bought The Bread Baker’sApprentice by Peter Reinhart.Read it
and don’t panic (there is a lot of text to get through before the recipes)
because it will all work out.I made the
recipe for Pain a l’Ancienne .I ended
up making 3 baguettes and used the rest for pizza dough (2 pizzas and froze
crust for 2 pizzas).The process was
unbelievably easy, I used my Kitchen Aide mixer for mixing and kneading and it
was so easy!!!You mix the dough and put
it in the fridge and then wait (this was probably the hardest part because I am
VERY impatient and wanted the bread) until the next day.
A few hours rising, some shaping and time for
baking.
The whole spray the side of the
oven thing was a little strange and disconcerting but it made AMAZING
bread!!!The bread was the perfect mix
of soft middle and crunchy crust.It
tasted better than what I buy at the bakery.I definitely will continue to make bread because the results were worth
it.Hope you have a Sweet Morning and an
amazing day!
