A couple of weeks ago, my good friend Debbie comes over for a visit. During the course the day she mentions that she'd like to know how to make bread. I look at her with a twinkle in my eye and ask her if she is SURE she wants to know how. She says she is. I warned her how terribly addictive homemade bread is. She seemed OK with that! So today was the day! Bread 101.
We planned a repeat menu for lunch and the first thing on our list was to make the french bread for our sub sandwiches. Since I was out of cornmeal to dust our baking sheet with, we started of by grinding some popcorn in my lean mean flour making machine!
Nice!
This dough goes together really quickly. We don't have to knead it much since it is a more rustic bread and we don't have to let it rise before shaping our loaves.
We simply mix, knead, shape loaves, rise and bake!
You can see that we kneaded it enough to get the glutens to start forming, but it isn't a satin smooth dough. That is where the 'rustic' comes in.
Debbie is shaping her very first loaf of bread! You go girl!
Two rustic loaves of bread waiting to rise so they can go into the oven! It needs to hurry. The children are starting to circle like hungry sharks...
No pictures of rustic bread coming out of the oven because we cut them up and made them into sandwiches for a bunch of hungry little monkeys and two hungry mommies!
And then we got all chatty and forgot to take pictures of our next batch of dough that we mixed up in the bosch. We wound up with 5 loaves of bread and this lovely pan of cinnamon rolls. Yummmy!
And what a fun and productive afternoon!! Thanks for coming over Debbie!! I had a blast!
Now its time for the ultimate test. Baby Jesse gets a piece of bread...
She's not dumb! She is gonna see if her Mommy keels over before she takes a bite for herself...
Mmmm! Mommy must have survived!
I think she gives it her stamp of approval!
2 comments:
We LOVED it!!!!! We had the BEST time!!! And the cinnamon rolls......um.....didn't even make it home! They were sooo yummy! I thank you for having us out! We are definatly going to have to do this again reeeaaalll soon....and i think Baby Jessie seconds that : )
I really wish I had the patience to learn how to make bread. A good friend of mine with 8 children makes ALL of their bread and is a complete pro at it by now. She says it took her a good year of success and failure to get her recipe down pat and fail proof. Now she claims that it's faster and easier for her just to make her bread than to run to the store. I'm not so sure about that, but her bread sure is yummy.
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