Fresh Bread
Posted on January 30, 2013
Fresh Farmhouse Loaf
My house smells of fresh bread I love the smell. Delicious. I am so happy to be able to do breads like this. And I just wanted to thank my mother, the one who made it all possible. Thanx mum.
This is a lovely little farmhouse loaf, and it will be lovely to eat it later if I do manage to get the job I am about to apply for it will be a celebratory face stuffing and if I don’t get it…. Well comfort food is in order. There is nothing like bread.
Ok, I made a promise on Facebook a couple days ago, that I would put up the recipe for this bread…. Then everything got busy but now I have the opportunity to keep my promise. Sorry for making you all wait and thank you for your patience.
This is a simple farmhouse loaf, I make it in the bread machine. It makes about 2 lbs of bread, it is not a small loaf by any means.
- 3 table spoons plus a cup of water
- 4 and 3/4ths cups unbleached organic all purpose white flour
- 2/3rds cup whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons milk powder
- 2 teaspoons salt (You may want to cut that a bit if you add salted butter)
- 2 teaspoons granulated organic unprocessed cane sugar
- 2 table spoons of butter
- 1 3/4 tablespoons dried yeast.
Make sure you add it all in the order your particular bread machine model accepts ingredients, in ours we always start with the most liquid and then add the rest on top of that. Many bread makers work this way, but not necessarily all so check the information for your bread maker before you get started. It’s really simple to use a bread machine you just add them to your breadmaker pan in the proper order as specified by the directions for your machine, then plug the machine in and it is time to press a few of the settings buttons. Set the bread machine to basic white, medium crust, 2 lb for size, then just hit the start button and in a few hours you have this bread. It is nice bread, you may want to check on it a couple times before it bakes while it is going through it’s mixing stages because sometimes it is a little dry then just add a tablespoon or 2 more of water and allow it to continue mixing and check it again to make sure it is no longer dry and if it is, there is always more water. Well now this loaf has been written up as a recipe I hope it brings you as much joy as it brings me.
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Amanda, Which recipe is the bread pictured, above? Is it your Scarborough Fair Bread? I looks yummy!
No it isn’t but try that one it’s yummy… I have to go do my remedial math homework in a moment cuz I have a friend who is kind enough to try to teach me every friday more of the mathematics I missed while cutting math class back in high school to read about the druids…. Soo yeh, learning that now…. Also have a driving lesson tomorrow…. Imagine 32 years old and I can’t drive a car cuz I am scared of them…. Getting over it…. They are fun to play with in the empty parking lot. Sooo busy tonight and tomorrow like all day, but if you can hang on till Saturday, I can put it up there then. It’s a super simple farmhouse loaf, a lot of white flower, and some whole wheats etc… Not particularly fancy.
No problem, and GOOD FOR YOU studying math now! I would be a ‘Professional Student’ if I could! I’ll look in on you Saturday. Smiles ~
Please do!
Sorry about the blog though… I am amazingly dyslexic… Truly It was first documented when I was 4 and for someone who could barely spell her own first name till age 10 I think I am doing pretty well though I do admit that blog is a mess…. But hey I do the best i can…
Here comes another REAL fact about Straight A Chemistry Students …. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SEND A FRIEND REQUEST!! I looked & looked, and tried & tried, but real life stuff just throws me (ask my Sister & my Daughter – they’ll tell you!) The Magnetic North part of your brain that enables you to (supposedly) keep directions straight … well God just couldn’t fit that piece into my brain once He gave me my HUGE sense of humor! Smiles~
So evolution? God or Darwin, or both?
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Amanda, I am a scientist that totally BELIEVES in God & that Jesus is His Son. (Rare in the science world? Yes. True, nonetheless.) The creation of a life in being, to me, is a Miracle of Biblical proportions! Darwin or God? That’s a harder question, because I understand evolution & I understand how it could have come about. ‘Big Bang?’ Why can’t people just get their heads around the fact that maybe God made the Big Bang & let it go at that?? So, in a nutshell, I guess that for me, it must be God at the base of EVERYTHING, and then after that, phylogeny, progeny, genetics, all the rest of the science that our little human ‘pea brains’ can understand at this point in our development. First & foremose for me, is this: The Bible is the Word of God. My husband (a physician) laughs at me. He is an ‘agnostic.’ But I am a Believer. So what? I have many, many friends that are not ‘literal believers;’ they believe, but just not in the way I do. Does this help you understand me? If you disagree, that’s OK. God put us together for a reason. It’s up to us to figure out what that reason is. Smiles ~
Fair enough… I don’t agree…. I see in things nothing that points to God’s responsibility, however, I also see nothing harmed by the addition of God, so long as the scientific facts are also accepted. Seems to me, you choose to believe and that is a beautiful thing if it adds joy to your life. I have more trouble with faith though…. But it seems we agree that the story presented in the bible for how it all started has been categorically debunked as a beautiful but fictional accounting that tells us more about the inner workings of human beings than it tells us about the universe and world we live in and how it began. Maybe god, IS responsible for everything. I can’t prove he isn’t. However…. The earth is most assuredly NOT 6000 years old as Genesis tells us either. I have a feeling God is a myth just like Zeus, but what I see as a myth brings many people a great deal of comfort and I am grateful to the myth or the reality of God for that, people deserve to feel comforted in this life, because, life is hard. I think crafting and a good sense of fun brought us together
And for me, what we have in common is much more important than what we don’t share… When I think of God, I tend to view him, more as our minds, where we both are thinking a mile a minute about our next crafting projects, and in so doing we find each other there…. I like to think that if there is a God, he is more responsible for that spark between people rather than that which separates them.
I hear you, sister! My husband thinks much as you think (and probably right in concert with your husband). No surprises; not even an argument! No, we cannot ‘prove’ anything, of that you are correct. I do think that the Earth is MUCH, MUCH older than 6,000 years; OMG, if you have ever rafted down the Grand Canyon & looked at the Visnue Schist (sp?) and the myriads of other layers deposited by eons of pressure & accummulation! It is amazing what nature and/or God has done. Nonetheless marvelous HOWEVER it came about! The spark between people is VERY important, and you, dear sister, have excelled in that area. Kudos to you, to your brilliant husband, and to your LOVELY FaceBook page! I welcome your comments, whatever they may encompass! Smiles~
Aww… Yes, I think we can agree to disagree about God, while both accepting what is here on earth is an amazing wonder and no one can prove anything with 100% accuracy. I studied this stuff at the university level for a while. I am highly educated in music and archaeology largely pertaining to ancient societies and human development, both through the mechanism of Evolution as well as through the different stages our human society has passed through. You are definitely a kindred spirit. I am glad we have met.
I think it important to be able to disagree with grace and admiration for each other, and I think we have managed to do so. But yes, the earth is WAY older than 6000 and to say it is only 6000 I have trouble accepting that as religious faith because it sounds more like insanity to me. But there is nothing crazy about believing in God, just about believing what is obviously false about the reality we live in. That is nutty. And you dear sister, are truly a dear sister in the crafting. There is much I think we will have fun discussing from crafting to science and everything in between.
Here’s to that! Let’s keep it up, then! I LOVE it! I, certainly, don’t know everything; I think it would be a fool who ever thought he did! Hugs!
No disagreement on that from me! Hugs!
I promised the recipe for this lovely farmhouse loaf, and the blog post has now been edited to include one due to popular demand for the recipe! http://cafeprimrose.com/2013/01/fresh-bread/
WOW!! Thank you SO MUCH for your Fresh Farmhouse Loaf Recipe! I can’t WAIT to pop it in our much-used Bread Machine! Hugs~
Leigh