Thread: Who bakes bread?

Beautiful loaf that makes my mouth water.

Beautiful loaf! Perfect crust and crumb.

I also like the nuttier flavour you get when you let the crust brown up the way you did.

Sometimes, I add some rye flour to the sourdough. Seems to give it a bit more oomph.

You can also add some vital gluten which will improve rise and some semolina flour will give it a unique texture.

My son and his girlfriend will be here for supper so some fresh rolls are in order to go with some homemade Strawberry and Blueberry Jam--

I think I want to find out where you live so I can sit outside your house and inhale all the great cooking aromas.

I came home yesterday and when I opened the porch door I smelled fresh baked bread.

I cut off the two ends of one loaf and with a little butter was in heaven!

Originally Posted by 32t

I came home yesterday and when I opened the porch door I smelled fresh baked bread.

I cut off the two ends of one loaf and with a little butter was in heaven!

My mother would tell you that she wan't a good cook or a baker as she HAD to cook and she HAD to bake.

I vividly remember my mother serving biscuits and my dad taking the handle of his table knife and putting it underneath the table top then taking a biscuit and while tapping it on the table top and at the same time hitting the handle of that table knife under the table top to insinuate that mom's biscuits were hard as a rock.

On day mom found Rhoad's Frozen Bread Dough and baked a loaf of fresh bread.

She had just taken it out of the oven when dad came home from work. Unbeknownst to mom dad loved the heal piece of freshly baked bread (he wouldn't eat the heal of a store bought bread).

Anyway we didn't have a very good bread knife so dad broke out his meat saw to gently slice the heal off.

Mom was in tears as she thought dad was making fun of her bread.

Damn I miss them both!

My grandmother had 12 kids in northern Ontario. She told me she would go through 100 pounds of flour a week making bread. Each of the 6 boys would eat a loaf each day. By the time I knew her, she had retired and sold the farm and was alternating staying at each kid’s house for a month or more during the year. I can only imagine how that house smelled with that old wood stove going all day long making bread and other food for a family of 14.

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Came out really good even without the nuts.

My friend Annie would love it. I have always put nuts in banana bread, sometimes some currants but she doesn't like nuts. Oh she'll eat the bread but after she's done you'll find a little pile of nuts that she spit out

I'm traveling tomorrow to help her prep her laundry room so it can get new tile. I think I'll make a couple of loaves to take up but I'll leave the nuts out.