January Bread

Wednesday, January 12th.  Need to bake bread because I'm out.  This is a brown slicing bread.  I put oats, wheat germ, bran, whole wheat flour, white whole wheat and white bread flour.  I leave the milk out and used butter and olive oil instead of the shortening required.  I also used honey instead of sugar. 

I've been making this bread for decades.  I like it and that's all that counts since I'm the one and only one eating it.  I slice it and freeze it.  It will last about a month sometimes more.  It isn't so good for sandwich bread for Chloe because it is a bit heavy.  Only a bit though because it is actually quite light just not light enough.

On Thursday, January 13th I made a special bread for my daughter Debbie.  Debbie is on a chemotherapy which requires that she eats the blandest of foods and absolutely no fiber.  No fats, no sugar, no raw fruits and vegetables etc etc.  So I will make her some white bread.  I will use the same recipe just use only white bread flour, lessen the amount of sugar to 2 T from 1/3c.  I used pure cane sugar.  So no GMO.  I used very little real butter.  I tried to use no sugar but that yeast wasn't doing anything and I am used to it popping in 10 minutes.  After I put a T of sugar in it began frothing and was ready in a minute.  Her bread looked like this.

This is what it looked like.  We took a couple of slices to taste it.  Debbie was visiting at the time and she was delighted.  It was very light and fluffy but also very moist.  She was not going to need any spread on it.  We left it on the racks to cool.  I took Debbie home and went on with Chloe to ballet class.  When Mark got home, probably about 15 minutes after we left, this is what he found;

Bad bad bad bad bad bad dog.  So today I am remaking the bread.  I did salvage a few slices.  She did not touch the one we had tasted and another one was only a little bit ruined.  I couldn't take that over to Debbie.  Goodness, she has cancer.  She doesn't need any other germs.

Jan 25th, 2011

Baked 6 loaves of white bread today.  This is the same bread as before but was completely protected from the dog.  Anyway it has only water, King Arthur White Bread flour, yeast, salt, small amount of real butter and tiny amount of organic cane sugar.  It is so soft, chewy and flavorful.  Chloe loves it too, so now I make it for Debbie and save some for Chloe.  Voila!!!  NO MORE STORE BOUGHT BREAD. This has been my goal for a very long time.  I have also made pizza's this month.  I make a pizza generally on friday's.  But I have never taken a picture of it.  Maybe I will remember this week.