The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[tadpole98]

Quote: haha if you ever want the recipe PM me XD

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally.

the easy recipie

2 cups water 110 degrees
1 1/2 tablespoons of dry yeast
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup veg oil
6 cups of bread flour

mix with a bread hook

raise, punch down and make rolls, bread..let raise again and bake





This can be converted into anything

Cirachia bread
cinnamon rolls
dinner rolls
swiss rolls and bread

Thank you!!!

 

[JoyfulPromise]

To interrupt the baking lessons...

So last week I bought a used Little Giant Styrofoam incubator from a Craigslist ad. We drove an hour to get it, it looked pretty good and it included the egg turner AND the Fan kit! For only $60!

Today I took it apart and scrubbed and sterilized the bottom, the wire screen, the plastic egg holders (it has the old kind that come off the turner) and anything else that could be washed.
I set it up on a card table in a back room and plugged it in. I stuck a plastic "dollar store" thermometer on top of the egg holders on the turner, so it would be about egg height. The thermometer also has a small plastic hydrometer on the bottom. The incubator has been on for over 2 hours now, and with my frequent checks, the temp went straight up to 100 F exactly, and the hydrometer has settled around 44% humidity. Everything looks great so far! Hurray!!!! I will leave it on overnight to see how it stays, but I am very pleased for now. I didn't fiddle with the thermostat at all, just kept it at the place where the previous owners had marked it, and it seems to be just about perfect. I am getting another thermometer/hydrometer soon, a digital one with a probe so I can keep it on the outside of the 'bator.

Oh this is so exciting!!! I dont know HOW I am going to wait another whole MONTH to set eggs!!!!!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I bake bread all the time and have refined the recipes I use for competition. What are you looking for; white, wheat, sweet or "other"?

And you can solve the fairy house problem with a bread machine. Just use the dough cycle, dump the dough out into a bread pan, let it rise a second time and bake it yourself in the oven. No one will know you didn't do the whole thing by hand!

Deb
DOLP

yeah put in pans! he he he

A good white fluffy bread that is delish without anything on it!! mmmmmm my pop used to bring some home from the auction once a week!! miss those little cute loafs!
I use instant yeast now for one rise only. As in mix dough, form shape, let rise and bake. Saves some time. The flavor is slightly different, for the bread aficionados.
cool! Will look into it! Thank you!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

To interrupt the baking lessons...

So last week I bought a used Little Giant Styrofoam incubator from a Craigslist ad. We drove an hour to get it, it looked pretty good and it included the egg turner AND the Fan kit! For only $60!

Today I took it apart and scrubbed and sterilized the bottom, the wire screen, the plastic egg holders (it has the old kind that come off the turner) and anything else that could be washed.
I set it up on a card table in a back room and plugged it in. I stuck a plastic "dollar store" thermometer on top of the egg holders on the turner, so it would be about egg height. The thermometer also has a small plastic hydrometer on the bottom. The incubator has been on for over 2 hours now, and with my frequent checks, the temp went straight up to 100 F exactly, and the hydrometer has settled around 44% humidity. Everything looks great so far! Hurray!!!! I will leave it on overnight to see how it stays, but I am very pleased for now. I didn't fiddle with the thermostat at all, just kept it at the place where the previous owners had marked it, and it seems to be just about perfect. I am getting another thermometer/hydrometer soon, a digital one with a probe so I can keep it on the outside of the 'bator.

Oh this is so exciting!!! I dont know HOW I am going to wait another whole MONTH to set eggs!!!!!!!!

you can get a TEST batch in and hatched JUST IN TIME!!!

 

[JoyfulPromise]

you can get a TEST batch in and hatched JUST IN TIME!!!

Don't I WISH!!!!

But I am pretty sure I would NEVER get that past the rest of my family, they are much too practical about things like "where are these chicks going to go while they are growing up?" and other unimportant stuff...

 

[Wisher1000]

Don't I WISH!!!!

But I am pretty sure I would NEVER get that past the rest of my family, they are much too practical about things like "where are these chicks going to go while they are growing up?" and other unimportant stuff...

Well, DUH!

In the brooder, where else would they go?

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Yes Wisher1000, but these chicks will be 4 weeks old by the end of MARCH, and we like to get our chicks outside around that age if at all possible, and there is almost NO WAY that is happening up here in Michigan, unless we have one of those crazy 80 F weeks in March like we did last year, and we are all praying against that because it RUINED the apple production last year!

Oh well, I am afraid I will just have to wait until the Hatch-along starts, and tell myself it will be all the more exciting when it FINALLY arrives...

If only we had a big old barn... I wouldn't mind keeping extra chicks out there while they grew older...

 

[mstricer]

Is anyone else having problems with the "multi" quote button disappearing. Sometimes it's there sometimes not.

It's driving me crazy. I just went to the bottom and hit the desktop and they came back. That is the third time today I had to do this.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I bake bread all the time and have refined the recipes I use for competition. What are you looking for; white, wheat, sweet or "other"?

And you can solve the fairy house problem with a bread machine. Just use the dough cycle, dump the dough out into a bread pan, let it rise a second time and bake it yourself in the oven. No one will know you didn't do the whole thing by hand!

Deb
DOLP

yeah put in pans! he he he

A good white fluffy bread that is delish without anything on it!! mmmmmm my pop used to bring some home from the auction once a week!! miss those little cute loafs!
Okay, BRB with my absolute favorite white bread recipe. So far it's been unbeaten at my fair.

Deb