baking bread

**wareagle69** · 03-20-2009, 01:33 PM

at the wifes new job as a vet tech doing surgical assistence, her new boss is awesome along with some great benefits she gave linda a bag of amish bread starter, we had to mix it up in the bag over the last 10 days actually yesterday was day 10 but i was to whipped to bake so my first ever bread will be going into the oven in a little while and i will let ya know this evening how it went

**Ken** · 03-20-2009, 01:36 PM

That's good stuff! A batch of starter makes its way back to us every few years. Actually, we're due for some pretty soon.

**Rick** · 03-20-2009, 01:40 PM

I've never made Amish starter bread. I've made a lot of regular yeast bread. You'll be hard pressed to find anything in the world that smells or tastes better than fresh baked bread right out of the oven.

Round cake pans will give you a round loaf if you want something a bit different.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out. Pictures would be good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, QC. We know. You want your sample. Sheeesh.

**Ken** · 03-20-2009, 01:41 PM

You caught my hint, didn't you?

Pretty astute for an old guy. Yes you are.

**Rick** · 03-20-2009, 01:50 PM

Why thank you, Ken. Pardon me while I go save the world...again.

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**laughingbeetle** · 03-20-2009, 03:48 PM

Rick, I have never used a cake pan if I wanted a round loaf of bread. I just pop the shaped dough on a cookie sheet and let it do it's thing. Wareagle, I look forward to hearing how the starter went.

**Rick** · 03-20-2009, 03:56 PM

I use regular loaf pans and cake pans. I've never tried just "free style". I'll have to try that.

**laughingbeetle** · 03-20-2009, 04:02 PM

Sometime I braid the dough. That comes out really neat looking.

**Ken** · 03-20-2009, 04:19 PM

A Fairy Tale About The Disposition Of A loaf Of Bread

One day as the Little Red Hen was scratching in a field, she found a grain of wheat.

"This wheat should be planted," she said. "Who will plant this grain of wheat?"

"Not I," said Sarge.

"Not I," said Rick.

"Not I," said Crash.

"Then I will," said the Little Red Hen. And she did.

Soon the wheat grew to be tall and yellow.

"The wheat is ripe," said the Little Red Hen. "Who will cut the wheat?"

"Not I," said Sarge.

"Not I," said Rick.

"Not I," said Crash.

"Then I will," said the Little Red Hen. And she did.

When the wheat was cut, the Little Red Hen said, "Who will thresh the wheat?"

"Not I," said Sarge.

"Not I," said Rick.

"Not I," said Crash.

"Then I will," said the Little Red Hen. And she did.

When the wheat was threshed, the Little Red Hen said, "Who will take this wheat to the mill?"

"Not I," said Sarge.

"Not I," said Rick.

"Not I," said Crash.

"Then I will," said the Little Red Hen. And she did.

She took the wheat to the mill and had it ground into flour. Then she said, "Who will make this flour into bread?"

"Not I," said Sarge.

"Not I," said Rick.

"Not I," said Crash.

"Then I will," said the Little Red Hen. And she did.

She made and baked the bread. Then she said, "Who will eat this bread?"

"Oh! I will," said Sarge.

"And I will," said Rick.

"And I will," said Crash.

"No, No!" said the Little Red Hen. "Ken, the Director of Quality Control, will do that." And he did.

**Rick** · 03-20-2009, 04:58 PM

Man! You sure went a long way for a joke.

**Ken** · 03-20-2009, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Man! You sure went a long way for a joke.

Rick, that was plagerized. "The Little Red Hen?" The Fairy Tale? Don't remember it?

A quick Google search with a cut and paste, a few global replacements, and presto!

No effort. None at all.

**wareagle69** · 03-20-2009, 05:23 PM

put the miture in the oven a 1700 will be out at 1800

**Rick** · 03-20-2009, 06:06 PM

We'll be there at 1745. Is the beer cold?

**wareagle69** · 03-20-2009, 06:27 PM

no beer here sorry charlie
just had my first piece of bread from the first bread i have ever baked, not bad honestly seems more like a muffin mix though, but the wife just walked in the house and was surprised said it smelled great and wanted to know if it was diffucult, very easy to me, now to play with some other receipes

**crashdive123** · 03-20-2009, 06:30 PM

Growing up, it was always Mom's baked bread. My favorites were her brown bread and her raisin loaf. We rarely bought any, at least that I recall. I've got a hunch you're going to like it.

**Rick** · 03-20-2009, 06:31 PM

For me, the worst thing about making yeast bread is just the waiting. Make, wait, kneed, wait. That kind of thing. Takes a chunk out of the day.

Try this web site. It will keep you busy for a while.

http://www.cookingbread.com/

**wareagle69** · 03-20-2009, 06:41 PM

mm interesting will have to bookmark that one thanks twink

**tsitenha** · 03-20-2009, 10:20 PM

Used to make bread 30 years ago but i have limited myself to biscuits for the last while, I get invited to to a lot of gatherings especialy for my chedar cheese biscuits.