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12 January 2004 - Need Some Dough? I just happened to check our bread pantry (actually the big bottom drawer under the kitchen counter) on Sunday and noticed we were out of bread. One rather lonely near-to-stale pita was hanging out in among the crackers and a bag of rippled Lay's chips. Normally this wouldn't be a disaster, easily remedied by grocery shopping...but I just wasn't feeling up to it, and S. does love his bread. I lugged out my trusty breadmaker and within a few short hours I had made a delicous smelling, wonderfully tasting soft, fresh, hot loaf of Seven Grain Bran Bread. Yum. It was so delectable that I had to try it when it emerged from the oven, with a small amount of butter and peanut butter. Oooooh, delicious. I even had another piece later, completely naked (the bread, not me...) and yet another a few seconds later with some really thinly sliced cheddar cheese. Delish! Yes, I used my breadmaker, so lets hear the groans from the peanut gallery about how it's not quite "homemade"...please. Who wants to spend an hour kneading bread dough when one can be relaxing on the couch with a cup of peppermint tea and reading a good book? Honestly, when a machine can do that particular job for you and come up with the same if not better results then when you do it yourself, why not use the machine?!? When the dough cycle was complete I removed it the machine, allowed it to rise again in a buttered bowl and then put it in a loaf pan, bake it and voila! The perfect loaf of bread. |