Sooner or Later…

Run, run, as fast as you can…

Once I got home from practice I found the 12 qt stockpot FULL of bread dough PLUS another small bowl full.  Seems that Robert gave it a hair cut every time it oozed out enough.

It being 10:00 at night I quickly smooshed it down then divided into my four bread pans (Walmart was out) and 12 muffins.  Stuck the muffins in for 25 min. When the rolls when finished the bread pans were placed into the oven for 45 min.  Once the timer dinged, the oven was turned off and the bread left inside until morning. 

How did it taste?  Not bad but everything really did need that second rising. I didn’t do it because all I could picture was waking up to dough everywhere.

So what went wrong?

1.) Well I used a bakers yeast from Sams and it works just a bit differently than regular yeast from the grocery store.  If I remember correctly you are supposed to use a bit less but I haven’t baked bread products in ages so cannot quite remember. And in the bread machine just use the same amount–which is how I had been using it.

2.) The recipe calls for packages and instead of looking up how many teaspoons equals a package I relied on memory.  This may or may not be correct depending on how much #1 affected things.

So everything still tastes good just a bit doughy or perhaps yeasty.  We are eating it all anyway.

So what about the first loaf?

Well it is still in the bowl.  The little bubbles were there too early and I just had too much running to do today to fool with anything.  I do plan on trying again soon.

But, I found an excellent pair of pants that look 1880ish and look good for today. I believe they might be old military uniform pants.  OLD–as in pocket watch pocket, buttons on the insides, button fly, and strings on the inside pant legs.  Nikos thinks they are cool and another man offered to buy them after the show.

Now to find *Y* shaped suspenders and sew a pair of boys knickers (pants not underpants).  The things I do for my kiddos….