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bread. cleaning. back to the everyday.
I crashed out yesterday about 3:30pm, and slept like the de... a lot. I woke up about 4AM and figured I'd best do something with my day.
So far:
Cleaned the kitchen counters
Unloaded, then loaded the dishwasher
Peeled 20 apples (go go gadget peeler-corer-slicer) and set them to boil a bit for apple butter. Prepped the crock pots and got them ready.
Still on the list:
Make at least 2 batches of bread
Call my folks at a reasonable hour, like 7:30AM, and find out if they got the court order yet
If court order, get dressed and head to Moore
Either way, clean out the trunk of my car. (The rest is already cleaned out.) Maybe a visit to the car wash might be in order.
Apples smell lovely. Here's my bread recipe and prep notes for future reference:
Source for recipe: The New Bread Book by Ursula Ferrigno
"Classic White Loaf" page 32.
Ingredients:
450g white flour (I use all-purpose, recipe states bread flour)
2 tsp salt (I use regular non-iodized, recipe states sea salt)
1 tbsp sugar (recipe states superfine, which is powdered I think; I use regular)
4 tbsp unsalted butter (I don't compromise on my buttah!)
15g fresh yeast (I use a heaping spoonful of dry yeast)
1 1/4 c milk at body temperature (I use 2% cause that's what we have handy)
Tools:
Big bowl for mixing. BIG bowl. Mine is about 12" across.
Pastry cutter for cutting in butter-- you can use knives or a fork but the pastry cutter is well worth the cost.
Flour sifter, cause it makes me happy, and for dusting the kneading surface
Dish towel, the thin kind, for covering bread as it rises
Flat glass pan for rising in
Heating pad for better rising
Mini-loaves-pan for baking
Pyrex measuring cup
Candy thermometer for measuring milk temperature
Put the flour, salt, sugar in the bowl. Cut in the butter until crumbly.
Heat 1/3 cup milk to temperature in the microwave then stir in yeast.
Add the milk/yeast to the bowl and stir in.
While doing this heat the remainder of the milk. Add it as needed til the dough is raggy (still sticky and falling apart but recognizably a dough).
Sift flour onto the countertop and turn out the bread dough then knead 5 minutes.
Put in the glass pan on the heating pad and let rise an hour (heating pad on high) or until doubled.
Knead again and then cut with a sharp knife into 8, place in baby loaf pan, let proof (final rise) on the heating pad for 10 more minutes, and cook at 400 (personal note: oven is 12 degrees high, set down half a notch) for 25 minutes more or less.
Makes 8 baby loaves.
So far:
Cleaned the kitchen counters
Unloaded, then loaded the dishwasher
Peeled 20 apples (go go gadget peeler-corer-slicer) and set them to boil a bit for apple butter. Prepped the crock pots and got them ready.
Still on the list:
Make at least 2 batches of bread
Call my folks at a reasonable hour, like 7:30AM, and find out if they got the court order yet
If court order, get dressed and head to Moore
Either way, clean out the trunk of my car. (The rest is already cleaned out.) Maybe a visit to the car wash might be in order.
Apples smell lovely. Here's my bread recipe and prep notes for future reference:
Source for recipe: The New Bread Book by Ursula Ferrigno
"Classic White Loaf" page 32.
Ingredients:
450g white flour (I use all-purpose, recipe states bread flour)
2 tsp salt (I use regular non-iodized, recipe states sea salt)
1 tbsp sugar (recipe states superfine, which is powdered I think; I use regular)
4 tbsp unsalted butter (I don't compromise on my buttah!)
15g fresh yeast (I use a heaping spoonful of dry yeast)
1 1/4 c milk at body temperature (I use 2% cause that's what we have handy)
Tools:
Big bowl for mixing. BIG bowl. Mine is about 12" across.
Pastry cutter for cutting in butter-- you can use knives or a fork but the pastry cutter is well worth the cost.
Flour sifter, cause it makes me happy, and for dusting the kneading surface
Dish towel, the thin kind, for covering bread as it rises
Flat glass pan for rising in
Heating pad for better rising
Mini-loaves-pan for baking
Pyrex measuring cup
Candy thermometer for measuring milk temperature
Put the flour, salt, sugar in the bowl. Cut in the butter until crumbly.
Heat 1/3 cup milk to temperature in the microwave then stir in yeast.
Add the milk/yeast to the bowl and stir in.
While doing this heat the remainder of the milk. Add it as needed til the dough is raggy (still sticky and falling apart but recognizably a dough).
Sift flour onto the countertop and turn out the bread dough then knead 5 minutes.
Put in the glass pan on the heating pad and let rise an hour (heating pad on high) or until doubled.
Knead again and then cut with a sharp knife into 8, place in baby loaf pan, let proof (final rise) on the heating pad for 10 more minutes, and cook at 400 (personal note: oven is 12 degrees high, set down half a notch) for 25 minutes more or less.
Makes 8 baby loaves.