Baking Bread

In my last blog I announced that I was going to teach myself to be a baker.

My first attempt at baking bread didn't turn out too well,

so here I go again.

First I call up the recipe for whole wheat bread on my little kitchen computer.

I assemble the ingredients:

whole wheat flower

brown sugar

warm water

dry yeast

powdered milk

salt

oil,

and of course my new mixer with a dough hook.

the yeast is proofed with warm water and brown sugar

and added to the dry ingredients.

Additional flour, 1/2 cup at a time and the oil is added to the mixing bowl with the dough hook running.

The dough is placed in a greased bowl and allowed to rise in a warm draft free place, in this case, my unheated oven.

Here is the dough after the first rising.




I punch the dough down, divide it, and roll it out to form two rolls.

This is the dough after a second rise.

I need to find out how to cause it to rise higher.

This is the finished product.

As you can see the slices are small

but delicious!

I will keep trying.