Debbie asked about bread machines.
I would like to say that I have never made a loaf of bread from scratch. I
have gone through 3 bread machines in the past 10?? years. I love them and
would not be without one.
I would venture to say that I use it to make dough more then I do to do the
whole process. But its so easy to through some flour, water and yeast in
the machine walk away come back 1/5 hours later and the pizza dough is
already for the toppings. I make Cinnamon rolls, Braided bread, etc all
using the abm to make the dough.
I read once that a Japanese company designed the ABM to help farmers wifes
who got up early in the AM to make fresh bread every day. What they found
was that the farmers wifes enjoyed getting up early and making the bread,
they didn't buy any of the bread machines. Its the city people who
purchased the ABM's. I think my experience on this newsletter shows the
same thing. The people who enjoy making bread from scratch are not going
to buy a bread machine. The people who just want fresh bread and do not
want to spend an hour kneading the dough are going to buy a bread machine.
Depends on what you want to do,, make bread, or enjoy eating it.
Pancake bread.
I was running short of flour the other day but I though I had three cups and
started a loaf of bread. Well I found I only had slighly more then 2 cups.
So I added a cup of pancake mix (mostly flour right?) I got a real
interesting loaf of bread, it smelled and tasted like fresh pancakes. So
if you like pancakes try it sometime, just substitute 1 cup of pancake mix
for one of the three cups of flour called for in a white bread recipe.
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