In my practice run for making bread to take with us to share at our thanksgiving meal this year, I have made a couple of discoveries with a new, more complex bread recipe. It takes a few extra steps, but the bread is FANTASTIC, bakery quality according to my hubby. And let's face it, what are a few extra steps when you are already making bread from scratch anyway?!
So here it is, Sara's Bread 2.0:
9 oz of whole milk
2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
17 1/2 oz flour (again about 60/40 whole wheat to all purpose)
1/4 cup butter at room temp
3 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt and
2 large eggs
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| Four little rolls are all that are left from yesterday's batch of twelve. |
I proofed the yeast like a good girl. Warmed the milk to 100-110 degrees and mixed the yeast in to set for about 5-10 min.
Then to half the flour rub in the butter and sugar and salt, and mix in the eggs and yeast milk. Cover and let set until doubled at room temp (half an hour).
Mix in the rest of the flour and kneed to smooth. (What a workout!) DON'T ADD MORE FLOUR! It will eventually pull together and get smooth!
Cover and let double in the fridge. Takes a while... mine was five hours.
Turn out, stretch and reshape your dough into loaves, rolls, etc brush with egg wash and let rest one final rise. (about 45min)
Preheat oven to 425.
Brush with egg wash again. A dozen rolls take about 10-12 min at 400 degrees. Two loaves take about 20-30 min at 425. One big rustic loaf... I haven't tried. They should sound hollow when you tap the bottom.
Also, with staying at friends over thanksgiving in mind, I made Lily a sleeping bag. She calls it her zipper bed.
I thought I was just about finished with it the other night and was trimming it up and turning it right side out, when something told me not to trim the way-to-long-zipper yet. And it was a darn good thing because I had put one half in upside down! Goodness knows what I was thinking at the time, I'm usually so careful!
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| These just don't join up no matter how much you want them to! |
Anywho, after ripping the zip back out and putting it back in right side up, Lily loves it!
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| peek-a-boo |
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| Oh, all those nasty cords! Please don't look. |
And since I love her sense of style so much (I let her do it to herself you know) I wanted to show you more Lily.
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| David's thinking "Really? Wings with those jammies?" |
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| Note that she has shoes on. Lily must ALWAYS have shoes on. |
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| This one is way more subdued. But she picked it out all by herself and I thought she looked sooooooo cute! |
3 comments:
Definitely reminds me of her Auntie Stevie's style at that age which by the way has improved greatly with age!
You are out of control with your bread! It does look delicious though.
And can I place an order for some sleeping bags? That thing is seriously super cute.
To Lily: You rock girlfriend! (Can I get away with saying girlfriend? I'm not sure I really can.)
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