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Mar

Bread, must.bake.bread…

   Posted by: MotherHen   in Natural Stuff, Vittles

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I know you missed it.  I know because I hid it.  While I was on my blog-cation I wrote a post on my recipe blog, Homemade and Wholesome, about my favorite store-boughten bread having the verboten, evil ingredient.  (I know, kind of a bus-man’s holiday, posting while on blog-cation.) 

Anyroad, I have really applied myself to not buying any of our bread.  But, when you have 8 people to feed 3X a day that adds up to about 24 well, 3 loaves of bread every day.  And 2 of those for lunch.  Which means I have to start my machines (I feel very GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES every time I say that) by 9:30 EVERY morning.  Which means I have become very skilled at making bread in my sleep while still a tad sleepy.  So, please, don’t talk to me while I do this or I may loose count putting 3 cups of bread flour into the pan.  I know!  But, it’s like rocket science after only one cup of coffee!

Back to the intended point.  Go here to read about how we avoid the evil ingredient.  Go here to see what I thought of that being in my OLD favorite store-boughten bread.  And go here and here to see what’s in my bread machines today.  It smells GREAT here, and I promise, no unpronounce-able scary stuff in my bread.

And go here to get a groove-in-yer-get-along today!

Here’s your shortcut back to Food on Friday.

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9 comments so far

Janee'
 1 

Just glad your back. I clicked over to check on an archived post and saw you were back! YEA!!

March 18th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Michelle B.
 2 

I am sooooo glad you are back. I really really missed you. I even would check while you were gone to see if by any chance you were back and then you were! Yeah! The bread looks so good. I love homemade bread. I have a bread machine but haven’t used it in a while. But it makes rather small loafs in comparision to store bought. I just don’t know if I could make enough bread to keep up with all the bread eating in this family. LOL

March 18th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Suzanne
 3 

Woo, hoo! Glad to have you back. I discovered it in WFMW! Really missed you, but I think you were setting a good example. Blessings!

March 18th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Cyndi Lewis
 4 

Oh yea! I was hoping you could fit a few posts in now and then.! I love the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes recipe. I make it almost every day. But my family has put the bread machine Challah recipe I snagged off of your site as their favorite. Guess what… I’m off to bake bread! Oh… and I started to “tweet”!

March 18th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Lori
 5 

I always look forward to your posts. :)

March 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Kristen
 6 

So very impressed with your blog. You are amazing!! Deodorant, bread, ketchup and ranch I am inspired. And these arae the only posts I have read so far. I am afraid to read more my to do list will be a mile long. I make my own peanut butter because of the “secret natural contaminants” (I have a blog post about it) found in there and I occasionally make my own bread. I have issues with the slicing of the bread, do you have any suggestions?

Kristen’s last blog post..Funny Girl

March 19th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
MotherHen
 7 

Hi Kristen, glad to meet ya! I have the best success slicing homemade bread, baked either in the oven or in the machine, with my electric knife. I also use a regular, manual bread knife, but the bread needs to be cool no matter what knife you use. OR you could just make the challah bread and tear it apart, no slicing required.

March 19th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
MotherHen
 8 

Hi Kristen,

I answered what I thought you were asking and then I went to Homemade and Wholesome and read your other comment. I think I know what you mean. The shape of the loaf is messing up your thinking. There isn’t a bread machine that I am aware of that is gonna give you slices that resemble store bought bread. So, you have to think out side that mold.

My bread machines make the tall, rectangular loaves. The first cut I make is from top to bottom, leaving me with 2 smaller rectangular parts. Then I lay one of those on it’s cut side and start making slices perpendicular to the original cut. Man, this is hard to explain with out photos.

If you don’t get what I mean, just say so and I’ll have one of my Pirates take some photos next time I slice up a loaf.

Thanks for reading and REALLY thanks for commenting!
Mother Hen

March 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Leila
 9 

Not only HFCS — but soy flour as well! and MSG, masquerading as “natural flavor”…

Even the expensive breads have these — all but a few, and who can read those tiny labels? :)

Good for you to bake!

Leila’s last blog post..Order and Wonder, or the most frequently asked question!

March 20th, 2009 at 11:46 am