Bread

I finally managed to make some regular white bread yesterday.

In the interest of full disclosure, I did try making this bread earlier in the week (twice) and never got to the baking stage.  The first time, I forgot to add the cold water to the yeast/sugar/water mixture and so I just added it in later...and things got messy and so I just dumped it in the garbage.  Then, I went to mix again...and my yeast wouldn't foam...had to run to the store for more.  Next attempt, the dough was too sticky and I had put my flour away (and had dough all over my hands) and kept hollering for my husband but he was doing something else and apparently did not hear the urgency in my voice.  I finally gave up and threw it in the garbage, again.

I think in both instances I must have not counted my cups of flour correctly.  Yesterday, I did everything the same, just making sure to mark down the cups of flour as I dumped them.  The bread turned out perfectly!  Go figure.

On my last post, Tea Mouse left me a message to check out a bread recipe on her blog (or a link to a bread recipe.... Multiseed Bread.  It sounds delicious, but I'm not eating nuts right now so I can't try it.  I am a bit bummed about that.

Also, Deborah at Antiquity Oaks has a couple bread recipes up on her blog, too. 

The recipe I used just came from the book that was with my food processor.  The bread tastes great!  I made a couple slices into toast this morning and put some jelly on it.  Yummm!

I think that I will try a wheat bread next.  My grandfather always said, "The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead."  A bid morbid, but there might be some general truth lurking behind that statement.