And there was bread!
One of my wonderful presents was a breadmaker. I’ve wanted one for a while, as it can at times be tough trying to find bread that’s not white sliced spongy stuff that shouldn’t be allowed to be called bread. Plus bread’s not cheap.
I’ve been wanting to try it out since, well, December 25th at approximately 11am. However, we haven’t been home long enough and with the correct ingredients until today. (Actually, that’s probably why I’m still a bit tired - the not being home thing, not a shortage of flour and yeast.)
As today was my first go, I was expecting a bit of a disaster, but no! Instead I have delicious wholemeal 5-seed bread, and it tastes great. Perhaps a tiny bit heavy, but some ingredient tweaking will fix that.
Here’s to many more loaves.
Yeah! Congratulations! I made bread today as well - only one seed in it (flax / linseed) - but it’s time, isn’t it, to have decent bread in one’s life?
02 Jan 2008 at 10:30 pm
That looks delicious! I’ve been making bread by hand for a couple of years and it’s taken ages to get it right. But that, my friend, that looks like the sandwich bread I’ve been craving. Dang it! Maybe I should get me one of them machines, too.
03 Jan 2008 at 10:41 am
Looks amazing. I miss our machine when I see lovely bread like that. Well done on the first go.
03 Jan 2008 at 2:12 pm
Wow! That’s some really beautiful bread! I really wanted a bread machine for Christmas too, but Santa decided to wait until my birthday or maybe next Christmas. Bread really is so expensive these days!
Happy Bread-making!
03 Jan 2008 at 5:25 pm
oh yay! nice loaf of bread. have fun with the breadmaker!
08 Jan 2008 at 3:27 am
I’ve been making bread too, but by the kneading and big oven method. Is a bread machine good value? Or does it use tons of electricity?
23 Jan 2008 at 5:50 pm