Right now I am eating a steaming hot slice of bread that just came out of the oven!
Yes, I am eating breakfast at 11:30 am! Hey, at least it's still morning.
Yes, despite the fire I started in the wood stove this morning it is still chilly enough in here to see lots of steam rising off the bread...I didn't build a big fire this morning. I knew it would be warming up outside (it's 70 now) and didn't want to waste the wood.
But back to the bread! Oh glorious bread. I'm using a recipe a friend gave me that I'm told is from an old copy of Mother Earth News. This morning I kneaded in some oat flour I made, for extra whole grainy goodness. While the bread is quite tasty it did not appear to rise enough before I put it in the oven, as I feared. Despite placing the dough on the mantle over the wood stove, arguably one of the warmer places in the house. There are some doughy spots caused by the crust forming before the bread had expanded enough inside. This is going to take some experimenting and work. But in the mean time...oh wonderful crusty warm and tasty bread I sing your praises.
Bread related goals for today:
Go buy some containers to keep dough, baked bread and large quantities of flour.
Make more dough.
Try not to eat all the bread before Frandz gets home. :)
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