What are you baking now?

[KenK]

If your family can eat the whole recipe at once try dividing the dough into two boules. I made these to take to my brother's house for a family dinner, same recipe.

 

[BettyR]

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I guess you must be a lot more OCD than I am... You really make pretty bread!

This is my usual, everyday to go with supper bread. I just throw everything except the last 2 cups of flour in my bread machine in the morning and leave it until right before I start supper. Then I throw the last two cups of flour in and let the machine knead and rise the dough. Then I form it into rolls and pop it in 375° oven about 30 minutes before we are ready to eat. It makes really good rolls and my family usually eats all of them.


2 cups water
1/2 cup powdered milk
1 tablespoon yeast
3 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 1/2 cups flour
2 cups flour

 

[KenK]

That is very similar to the sandwich rolls that I eat for lunch everyday. I use crisco instead of butter and about half that much powdered milk. I also put in one egg.

See if your local library has, or will borrow for you, the Bread Baker's Aprrentice by Peter Reinhart.

Bread baking is a love/hate relationship for me; I get sick of baking but I must have the bread.

 

[somissemilyy]

I'm a cake decorator, but I don't do it much anymore.. Sometimes I'll cook cupcakes and when we don't need them here in my household my neighbors sure enjoy

Something else I have recently tried, OREO BALLS

Yes, you need to try them

My mouth is just watering typing this

 

[knjinnm]

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Yes we need to try them ...... got a recipe?

 

[Jen4]

All the roll pictures look great!

 

[somissemilyy]

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Yes we need to try them ...... got a recipe?

They are just amazing. I will find the recipe. Then I will post it on here.

 

[BettyR]

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I'll give the egg a try... I have found that the extra powdered milk makes my rolls brown much nicer, a little tip I picked up watching Alton Brown. The little extra nutrition doesn't hurt either.

Our town is too small to have a library and the closest town large enough to have one is too far to drive just to borrow a book. We get really good cell phone reception out here though and I've got a Kindle. I'll see if I can get it on my Kindle or if the cost is about the same I may order one. I've been reading a lot about the Reinhart books and have been thinking about getting one for a while.

Yeah, I was raised eating my mom's homemade bread everyday and baking bread just seems like a part of life. I bought some sliced bread at the grocery store once, I thought I'd give it a try and I almost started a riot. My family thought it was the most disgusting thing they had ever eaten.

 

[arabianequine]

I made chocolate chip cookies with my nephews last night for fathers day. Now I need to make more cause dh hardly got any

 

[arabianequine]

Baking cookies again now