One of Ella's chores (suggested by her Aunt L.) is to put the stuff in the bread maker every night and program it so we have warm bread in the morning. This works well, and is also a great science experiment. We have discovered that:
Here's our recipe for bread:
1 1/4 cup water
2 Tbsp. Earth Balance buttery stick
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 Tbsp. sugar
2 cups whole wheat flour (we get ours from Great Harvest)
1 cup white flour (bread flour makes it rise better)
1 1/2 tsp. yeast
Put the water in the bread machine, making sure that the paddle is in it. Add the "butter", salt and sugar. Sprinkle first the whole wheat flour and then the white flour on top. Make a small well for the yeast, making sure that no water touches the yeast. Bake on the whole wheat cycle with the 1.5 lb loaf and dark crust options. Schedule to get done by 6:30.
- Bread made without salt looks OK but is barely edible.
- Bread made with 3 times the salt is inedible, and doesn't rise right.
- Bread made with no yeast is edible, sort of like a tasty rock is edible, and
- Ella really needs a system to make sure she puts the right ingredients in the right amounts in the right order.
Here's our recipe for bread:
1 1/4 cup water
2 Tbsp. Earth Balance buttery stick
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 Tbsp. sugar
2 cups whole wheat flour (we get ours from Great Harvest)
1 cup white flour (bread flour makes it rise better)
1 1/2 tsp. yeast
Put the water in the bread machine, making sure that the paddle is in it. Add the "butter", salt and sugar. Sprinkle first the whole wheat flour and then the white flour on top. Make a small well for the yeast, making sure that no water touches the yeast. Bake on the whole wheat cycle with the 1.5 lb loaf and dark crust options. Schedule to get done by 6:30.
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