Whole Wheat Bread, Eaten!

Once the bread finished, around midnight, I had a very hard time waiting for it to cool. I waited for about three minutes, grabbed a potholder and went for it.







The outside was pretty crunchy- and there's a lot of outside surface because it was so oddly shaped. I thought it might have been a little on the dry side, but totally not intolerably so. I spread some butter on it and was super happy.

This morning, the bread was entirely different. It is very possibly due to the fact that I put the bread back in the loaf pan, covered it with plastic wrap, put that back in the bread machine and covered it with a towel. (We have knats who really like food. I'm trying to discourage them.) This morning, the bread was much softer and much moister. It was a wonderful breakfast.

I think next time I use this recipe, I'll add a little more butter, and maybe a little more honey. When I was eating it this morning, I came across a sweet spot where there was just a very light drizzle of honey left. It was delicious.

I have good feelings about this bread machine.

Whole Wheat Bread

I am currently making my first loaf of bread ever. A friend let me borrow her bread machine and my current housemate and I decided to use it.

I found the recipe on the internet.

1 1/3 cups milk
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons honey or sugar
4 teaspoons margarine or butter
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 active dry yeast

(In my bread machine) Add ingredients in order listed; wet first, yeast last. Select "basic" cycle. This is going to take three and a half hours.

The anticipation is killing me!

Pancakes

I made these on my first official day in the SENS house- my first cooking project to get to know the kitchen.

I found it on the internet.

1.5 c. flour
3.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/4 c. milk
1 egg
3 tbs butter, melted

Mix all dry ingredients. Make a well and pour wet ingredients inside. I used butter in a cast iron skillet. Reloaded the butter in between every couple of pancakes.

Very good and simple. The butter gives it an excellent flavor. Worth repeating.