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daidoji_giseiWhen I got home today I was thinking of doing more work in the garden but then I remembered I was out of bread. One of my current goals is to get back to making all of my own bread (running a bakery had made me somewhat lax on this over the years), so instead of planting seeds I cultivated yeast.
I had a lot of buttermilk on hand, so I chose a recipe for a buttermilk whole wheat. My new mixer (still needs a name!) made pretty short work of mixing and kneading the dough, though when I tried to take it out I discovered it didn't mix all the flour in the bottom of the bowl. There is an adjustment you can make to fix that; I just need to remember to do it in between bread batches. Anyway, I put it in a buttered bowl and set it to rise. Some people are put off of bread-making because they think it takes a lot of time, but though the process can take several hours for most of that time the dough is sitting on the counter doing its thing and you can be doing something else. I put on the Advent Children soundtrack, cranked the volume, and did dishes.
After the first rise I decided to shape into one pound round loaves. It's a loaf size I can easily eat in a few days, while it is still tender, and it means having loaves to give away. Normally I would wrap some and stick them in my freezer, but my freezer is full of frozen veggies at the moment. But that's ok, because it just means I'll have a reason to make bread again.
I had a lot of buttermilk on hand, so I chose a recipe for a buttermilk whole wheat. My new mixer (still needs a name!) made pretty short work of mixing and kneading the dough, though when I tried to take it out I discovered it didn't mix all the flour in the bottom of the bowl. There is an adjustment you can make to fix that; I just need to remember to do it in between bread batches. Anyway, I put it in a buttered bowl and set it to rise. Some people are put off of bread-making because they think it takes a lot of time, but though the process can take several hours for most of that time the dough is sitting on the counter doing its thing and you can be doing something else. I put on the Advent Children soundtrack, cranked the volume, and did dishes.
After the first rise I decided to shape into one pound round loaves. It's a loaf size I can easily eat in a few days, while it is still tender, and it means having loaves to give away. Normally I would wrap some and stick them in my freezer, but my freezer is full of frozen veggies at the moment. But that's ok, because it just means I'll have a reason to make bread again.
