I always say I am making bread but I actually have not made a loaf of bread in years....I use bread dough and make rolls and Cinnamon rolls....Not to be confused with my cinnamon ring which takes way more fat..
Kenzie was disappointed that I did not make my rolls for Thanksgiving the other day. She asked me why I did not use my recipe. I told her because Betty had posted a recipe and I wanted to try it and I really do not have a recipe that is why sometimes my rolls are very good and sometimes. not so much... She wanted me to make rolls at 6 last night. I told her making rolls was just like making a pot of beans, you have to make them in the morning. Personally I have never tried to make them in the evening. But Fleta made them for me and Winnie one evening about 5PM and they were not fit to eat so I know you can only make them in the morning. Fleta, that may hold true for pumpkin pies also. I'll bet you did not make that last one in the morning. That probably was the problem.
Here is a picture of my flour bucket. I often buy it by the 25 pound bag from Costco which fills mt 5 gallon bucket. I buy Pillsbury bread flour since 90% of the time it will be used for bread. I throw a few bay leaves in it to make sure no bugs come to visit.
I use about half milk and half water. If I have throw away cups I always use those for the yeast and Milk. I filled one of the red 16 oz throw away cups with milk and stuck it in the microwave till it forms a skim....In the mean time I dumped another red plastic cup of water in the mixer bowl and then got luke warm water about 1/4 cup in the red cup again... To this cup I add a dash of sugar and about 3 T. of yeast...I measure in the palm of my hand. I always buy yeast in the 2 pound bulk then I put it in Tupperware and store in the freezer.... I sat the yeast mixture aside..
To the mixer bowl with the water in it I added maybe 1/3 cup of sugar. An egg, sometimes 2. a good T. salt, again measured in the palm of my hand, the scalded milk, and I dump in some flour.
You will notice I have a Tupperware sifter in my flour. It is fairly new. I have only had it 10 years or so...It holds about 2 1/2 cups...give or take... I dump a full sifter of flour into the mixer with the Milk, water, egg, salt, sugar, and I add 1/2 stick of margarine, along with a handful of instant potatoes (Pat's idea, and I have been doing that for at least a year. It makes the rolls lighter....Try it...). Then I start the mixer. I realise it is very runny so I add another sifter of flour. I want it thicker than a thick pancake mixture.
I then let it mix while I put all of the mess away, except for the flour pail. This lets the gluten in the flour come to life. After about 3 minutes I go back to the mixture and stick my finger in the goo. If it is cool enough I dump in the yeast mixture which is about to bubble over the top of the 16 oz cup, then I dump in another sifter of flour and let it mix some more. When all of that is mixed good then I can judge about how much more flour I will need. Today it was another sifter full. After just a minute it begins to pull from the sides of the bowl and I can see not all of the flour has mixed in yet. So I figure I am about right.
Then I just let it mix with the bread hook maybe another 3 or 4 minutes. I then dump the bread into the floured cutting board. I make sure all of the dough is pulled from the bowl. Today I had to work just a little more flour into the dough, maybe a half a handful. I then buttered the bowl. Flopped the dough back in and gave it a turn. Placed a towel over the top and I am proofing it in a closed oven with the light on.
After I took that picture, and saw it on the computer. I went back into the kitchen and cleaned the front window of the stove with Windex, Erin. For good measure I Windexed the top of the stove also.
At the point where I put it on the dough board I can tell if it is going to be really good, or a little off...This day it will be very light and fluffy bread..
Bread is so easy. I would rather make bread than almost anything...Maybe that is why my butt is so big. Here I have posted another Sister recipe that no one will be able to follow....We all cook the same...
Kenzie was disappointed that I did not make my rolls for Thanksgiving the other day. She asked me why I did not use my recipe. I told her because Betty had posted a recipe and I wanted to try it and I really do not have a recipe that is why sometimes my rolls are very good and sometimes. not so much... She wanted me to make rolls at 6 last night. I told her making rolls was just like making a pot of beans, you have to make them in the morning. Personally I have never tried to make them in the evening. But Fleta made them for me and Winnie one evening about 5PM and they were not fit to eat so I know you can only make them in the morning. Fleta, that may hold true for pumpkin pies also. I'll bet you did not make that last one in the morning. That probably was the problem.
Here is a picture of my flour bucket. I often buy it by the 25 pound bag from Costco which fills mt 5 gallon bucket. I buy Pillsbury bread flour since 90% of the time it will be used for bread. I throw a few bay leaves in it to make sure no bugs come to visit.
I use about half milk and half water. If I have throw away cups I always use those for the yeast and Milk. I filled one of the red 16 oz throw away cups with milk and stuck it in the microwave till it forms a skim....In the mean time I dumped another red plastic cup of water in the mixer bowl and then got luke warm water about 1/4 cup in the red cup again... To this cup I add a dash of sugar and about 3 T. of yeast...I measure in the palm of my hand. I always buy yeast in the 2 pound bulk then I put it in Tupperware and store in the freezer.... I sat the yeast mixture aside..
To the mixer bowl with the water in it I added maybe 1/3 cup of sugar. An egg, sometimes 2. a good T. salt, again measured in the palm of my hand, the scalded milk, and I dump in some flour.
You will notice I have a Tupperware sifter in my flour. It is fairly new. I have only had it 10 years or so...It holds about 2 1/2 cups...give or take... I dump a full sifter of flour into the mixer with the Milk, water, egg, salt, sugar, and I add 1/2 stick of margarine, along with a handful of instant potatoes (Pat's idea, and I have been doing that for at least a year. It makes the rolls lighter....Try it...). Then I start the mixer. I realise it is very runny so I add another sifter of flour. I want it thicker than a thick pancake mixture.
I then let it mix while I put all of the mess away, except for the flour pail. This lets the gluten in the flour come to life. After about 3 minutes I go back to the mixture and stick my finger in the goo. If it is cool enough I dump in the yeast mixture which is about to bubble over the top of the 16 oz cup, then I dump in another sifter of flour and let it mix some more. When all of that is mixed good then I can judge about how much more flour I will need. Today it was another sifter full. After just a minute it begins to pull from the sides of the bowl and I can see not all of the flour has mixed in yet. So I figure I am about right.
Then I just let it mix with the bread hook maybe another 3 or 4 minutes. I then dump the bread into the floured cutting board. I make sure all of the dough is pulled from the bowl. Today I had to work just a little more flour into the dough, maybe a half a handful. I then buttered the bowl. Flopped the dough back in and gave it a turn. Placed a towel over the top and I am proofing it in a closed oven with the light on.
After I took that picture, and saw it on the computer. I went back into the kitchen and cleaned the front window of the stove with Windex, Erin. For good measure I Windexed the top of the stove also.
At the point where I put it on the dough board I can tell if it is going to be really good, or a little off...This day it will be very light and fluffy bread..
Bread is so easy. I would rather make bread than almost anything...Maybe that is why my butt is so big. Here I have posted another Sister recipe that no one will be able to follow....We all cook the same...
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By the time I got this posted my bread was about to run over the top of the bowl. I punched it down and put on a pot of beans with the honey Baked ham bone we had for Thanksgiving. I pulled a lot of meat off of the bone. Most of it was sliced. I wrapped it in aluminun foil. I hope it does not get freezer burned. I do not like that. Maybe I will also put it into Freezer zip lock bags....I will go do that...
That is a lot of flour..I buy little 5 pound sacks and then sometimes have to throw it out.
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