So I made some bread...

I have been wanting to use this recipe to make bread for a while but have not had the guts to do it. It comes from a wonderful book called, "Made From Scratch" by Jenna Woginrich. She is definitely pretty awesome in my eyes. She is only in late 20's and already owns her own farm in nearby Washington County and has a great writing career. I'm not going to give detailed instructions but take a look at my journey on making homemade bread from scratch...

Start off with some active dry yeast.


Getting the yeast to activate is probably the most stressful part of the process.


Then you knead and knead.


And knead some more.


When you finally finish kneading, it goes in a buttered bowl and put aside to rise under a damp cloth for an hour and a half.


The anticipation is killing me and it has only been 20 minutes!


It doubled in size!


Then you punch out the air from the dough, knead it a little more, cut it in half and get it into some buttered pans. You have to let it sit in the pans for another hour.


It doubled in size again. It is now ready to go in the oven!


Fresh out of the oven...I can't wait to give it a try!


But it has to cool first...ugh...the anticipation is killing me.



FINALLY! It is definitely a hearty bread! Turns out I think I kneaded it for a bit too long so I will cut back on that next time. It was totally worth the wait!


Have you made bread from scratch???