Bake more bread

Simple and delicious! Not without problems, though. The book I got my recipe from called for a suspiciously tiny amount of yeast and so it took 5 hours to rise instead of 1! I initially called it failure but left it covered and checked hours later to find it finally rose, so I proceeded to bake it then. During the extra time, I think the dough dried out a bit. They were still tasty, but next time around I will compensate for what has to be an error in the book by adding a normal amount.

We’re having a work holiday party (read: PC “Christmas” party name) next week and I want to bring freshly baked bread…but I’m not sure what kind will fit in with the holiday. At any rate, I plan to bake some :)

In the past 2 weeks I’ve baked bread 3 times, 2 of which were new recipes!

I created a sourdough starter and then made Rustic Country Sourdough Bread, which was very tasty. I’ve kept my starter fed properly and it is due to make another sourdough bread this week.

I also FINALLY made a roggenbrot! I had minor issues shaping my round loaves, but the taste was good.

If I bake bread again this week, like I plan to, I am marking my goal as done!

I’ve always enjoyed it at the Outback, but I’ve gathered my ingredients and plan to make a new bread again, after having made Frenchbread last weekend. Mmm….honey wheat bread…

Having enjoyed french bread and turtle bread… my next conquest will be roggenbraut – a rye bread.

Hopefully I’ll get off my butt and try it soon, I’m overdue on enjoying more french bread though…

I’m baking a new bread for someone special next week. I’m sure she’ll love it!