Things you wish you could say

[MROO]

Check in the Any Home Bakers Here? thread. The first post contains links to almost all the recipes that have been posted in the thread.

I believe that Ron Ott has said that to get whole wheat bread to come out properly that it is necessary to add gluten to the recipe.

I have yet to find a consistently successful wheat bread flour that doesn't include either regular (or self-rising) flour or gluten powder. Without one or the other, the bread is way too dense and chewy.

 

[MROO]

I wish I can say that the weather is cool/cold right now because it is very hot and humid now.

I wish I could offer to trade so we can average them out and actually enjoy the day!

 

[FrostRanger]

I have yet to find a consistently successful wheat bread flour that doesn't include either regular (or self-rising) flour or gluten powder. Without one or the other, the bread is way too dense and chewy.

I found a recipe that is pretty much what I was doing and it works out well! Yes, it is denser than bread made with white flour but it isn't chewy https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/272420/easy-100-whole-wheat-bread/

 

[MROO]

Wish I could say I know where my glasses are right now! Why aren't they on top of my head???

Edit: found them. In my apron pocket. Who put them THERE???

I wish I could say that I can't understand because I've never done anything like that ....

 

[MROO]

I have two good knees!

And as my late mother used to say, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

That's why I have "two good knees" today ... because I was once a riding beggar!

 

[R2elk]

I found a recipe that is pretty much what I was doing and it works out well! Yes, it is denser than bread made with white flour but it isn't chewy https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/272420/easy-100-whole-wheat-bread/

Way, way back, I made a whole wheat bread. It was dense and delicious. I was never able to replicate it but I ate it more like a treat than like bread.

 

[Luckyhen006]

What do you think is wrong with them?

I'm not entirely sure right now as I haven't had the time to really check them out. They've just seemed/looked a little off these past couple days, some of their poop isn't looking right, etc. So I'm going to have to work out what it may be later...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's why I have "two good knees" today ... because I was once a riding beggar!

"I have two good knees" was in the "I wish I could say" category. Truthfully, I have a bad knee and a worser knee and neither of them is speaking to me today.

 

[FrostRanger]

Way, way back, I made a whole wheat bread. It was dense and delicious. I was never able to replicate it but I ate it more like a treat than like bread.

Yeah, first time I made it I had to stop myself from eating the whole loaf. My previous attempts at baking also didn't go so well so when I saw how amazing it looked and tasted I was stoked. I also figured it'd be dense since the videos I watched on medieval bread said that their loaves were denser than ours today and since white flour was very expensive until fairly recently I figured that'd extend to a 100% whole wheat loaf too

 

[MROO]

I wish I could say that I had the chance to say goodbye to the goodest boi a young lady could grow up with - DD's Joey. There wasn't time to get there, but he was in good, loving hands. We don't have a foaling date on him (he was a killpen rescue many, many years ago) but our vet put him at nearly 40!