Baking bread.

[jeffrey]

Anybody else make and bake break from scratch? My wife and I just started doing this a few months back. It's not that hard and tastes so much better then store bought! And better for you. Our kids love it! Warm buttered bread... a taste of heaven!

 

[Nehustan]

Haven't had freshly home baked bread for years...lovely stuff. I guess the nearest I get these days is Ice Cream with cookie dough in it...does that count???

 

[FFH]

I baked honey whole wheat bread off and on for about 5 years. I got too busy and stopped, then the price of honey doubled and I never went back to doing it again. Whole wheat and honey bread, mmmmm yummm. It definitely is way better than store bought bread. No preservatives and other junk like that. Warm whole wheat honey bread wtth butter. Yummmmm.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

I used to, but I haven't had time to scratch myself the last 2 years, let alone make a proper loaf of bread. I've got a breadmaker now, so if I get 5 minutes and some motivation I can throw together a loaf. Our kids prefer store bought though...don't ask me why.

 

[Dark_Waltz]

I haven't done it since school but there is no matching the smell of it !

 

[jeffrey]

LL, our kids are just the opposite. They can eat a loaf of home made bread a day. My wife says the price of bread in England is so much cheaper then it is here, not sure what it costs in your neck of the woods, but it's alot cheaper to make it here then buy it.

 

[michel]

LL, our kids are just the opposite. They can eat a loaf of home made bread a day. My wife says the price of bread in England is so much cheaper then it is here, not sure what it costs in your neck of the woods, but it's alot cheaper to make it here then buy it.

I agree, the price in England is so low that it just isn't economically viable to make bread. Having said that, my wife makes some for us every so often (when she gets the baking bug); I love her bread, it is more like the continental 'heavier' bread than the cotton wooly stuff we get in the supermarkets.

 

[jeffrey]

Sir Michel, Rebecca says the bread over hear is 'sweeter' then there, and texture reminds her of 'nimble', what ever that is, but says you'll know!

 

[jeffrey]

And the price over is is around a dollar a loaf for the cheap, store brand and up to 3 bucks for a name brand.

 

[Valjean]

I made a loaf of applesauce-walnut-whole wheat a couple of days ago with a bread machine. My loaves always seem to come out rather heavy and dense, though.

 

[Sunstone]

I made a loaf of applesauce-walnut-whole wheat a couple of days ago with a bread machine. My loaves always seem to come out rather heavy and dense, though.

In my experience, Sey, the less Portland cement you use as a binder, the lighter they'll be.

 

[Valjean]

But the extra fiber keeps me regular....

 

[jeffrey]

But the extra fiber keeps me regular....

LOL! Just add more yeast and a little more sugar and let it raise longer before baking.

 

[Zephyr]

I only really make bread when I'm making piroshkys.

Those things are awesome.

 

[Jaymes]

My bread-baking experiences are limited to pouring ingredients into a bread machine and hitting the start button. I do love the taste of warm bread, though! When I first had it I thought it would taste like toast that wasn't done cooking, but it tastes sooo good.

 

[ChrisP]

Haven't had freshly home baked bread for years...lovely stuff. I guess the nearest I get these days is Ice Cream with cookie dough in it...does that count???

:biglaugh:

I don't mean to be rude or judge here dude, but my diet used to be just like that. You'll feel so much better (about yourself and moodwise), have more energy and be physically healthier (less trips to the doc) if you eat more veg. I'm eating about 3 times more veg than everything else combined these days and aside from providing enough gas to power my street, there are no ill side effects. (I've just started drinking fennel tea for the gas, and it seems to be working). *eeeeewwwww*

Actually on topic for once: I've baked my own bread for about 10 years. IT ROCKS!!! make you're own pizza dough too. Pizza's that are 3 feet by 3 feet taste so much better

 

[FFH]

LL, our kids are just the opposite. They can eat a loaf of home made bread a day. My wife says the price of bread in England is so much cheaper then it is here, not sure what it costs in your neck of the woods, but it's alot cheaper to make it here then buy it.

I was using whole wheat and honey which is more expensive than using white flour and sugar. It was a little harder to mix correctly and it took longer to rise. Sometimes it didn't rise correctly, and the bread would come out doughy. I aways had to keep buying fresh yeast because it did not keep very long. The yeast isn't cheap either. I miss it, though, and would like to start doing it again. It is worth the effort. I just got lazy.

 

[Buttons*]

*drools* mmm... cornbread!

 

[FFH]

I used to, but I haven't had time to scratch myself the last 2 years, let alone make a proper loaf of bread. I've got a breadmaker now, so if I get 5 minutes and some motivation I can throw together a loaf. Our kids prefer store bought though...don't ask me why.

My life got too crazy too and it was just easier to go and buy a nice loaf of honey whole wheat bread.

 

[FFH]

I made a loaf of applesauce-walnut-whole wheat a couple of days ago with a bread machine. My loaves always seem to come out rather heavy and dense, though.

This sounds great. Applesauce was used as the sweetener, I assume. It is extremely hard to get whole wheat to rise, so I am not surprised that your loaf was heavy and dense. Sugar seems to aid in helping bread to rise. If you use honey or applesauce it will not rise as well, although the honey and applesauce are preferred and are more healthy. I have tried corn syrup but that did not work well. White flour and white sugar rise extremely fast with a little yeast, but it really is not that good for the human body.

I will stick to whole wheat and honey and may even try applesauce or apple juice as the sweetener. Maybe apple juice would act like sugar and help it to rise faster. Hmmmm Apple juice in place of the water and honey, never thought of that, or maybe grape juice. i'll try anything once, well almost anything.