The most delicious bread

[jethrien]

So we started experimenting with homemade bread last night. The first result was not ideal, but still quite tasty.

I made a sandwich of it for lunch today. Again, incredibly tasty, and yet very difficult to eat - you have to slice it fairly thick to keep it from falling apart, but then it's hard to fit a sandwich of the stuff in your mouth. And it's dense. Really, really dense. And so I find myself facing the afternoon with the glazed eyes of food coma...so full...

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Baking is fun...I made soft pretzels from scratch about a month ago that came out really well. The problem was that they didn't keep.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

How did you do it? I made soft pretzels a few years ago that were done bagel-style: boiled, then baked. Were yours the same?

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Yup. Boiled in water with a decent bit of baking soda dissolved for about a minute, then baked for about 12.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Sounds exactly the same. We should make those for a roleplaying night or movie night some time--then it wouldn't matter how well they kept.

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

Totally pointless comment, but soft pretzels sound amazing. I want one.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Didn't let it rise long enough, huh?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

It was a milk bread--I don't think it was supposed to rise as much as a standard loaf. That being said, I'm probably going to alter my rising techniques next time.