Game Tonight (6/18)

Hope y'all like snickerdoodles, because I'm bringing a bunch!

LIES!

You madame, are a snicker-doodle tease.

Hope they were tasty. I enjoy what you bring.

I am. I have dough left over, though, so assuming it lasts until Saturday, I'll try to remember to bring them next week.

Sounds very good to me. I want to talk to you this weekend about making bread. Your recomendations on ingredients.

Sure thing. Although I use a bread maker, and I understand that doing it without requires more skill.

We have a bread maker, we've just never used it. That oatmeal (?I think) bread that James brought a piece home of a couple weeks ago was amazing!

The recipe books I get most of my bread recipes out of are 'Bread Machine Magic' and 'More Bread Machine Magic'. They're very good beginner books, because they talk about how to successfully make bread, what ingredients are better to use, etc. Most of the recipes I've made out of those books have been pretty good.

Thanks for the titles. I'll definitely have to check them out.

Vai Castillian wrote:Sure thing. Although I use a bread maker, and I understand that doing it without requires more skill.

yes it dose but it is the same time ive done it both ways and it take the same amount of time to make the bread.

I took some culinary classes at ARC and it is a pain getting the yeast right in my experience. I have found that my favorite is baking though. I am looking forward to seeing the books.

I've had no trouble getting the yeast right. I get those little glass jars of yeast, and add however much the recipe tells me to add, and it's all good. The yeast lasts forever in the refrigerator -- literally years.

I learned the hard way that the water just has to be right or you cook them. Never got yhe chance to make sourdough though. Made some really good french loafs and muffins.

With a bread machine, that's not an issue. You put the flour in last and make a little divot in the top of the flour, and put the yeast in that.

yes it is all fun and hard at the same time lol.

Sounds much easier then doing it with a mixer.

Oh yeah. Bread machines are easy. Ingredients go in, bread comes out.

I am looking forward to using the bread machine and seeing some recipes. Have a good 4th of July.