I have been wanting to make my own bread for a few years now. Our old oven was so crummy, and the door didn't even close - so I decided to wait until we renovated the kitchen. Two days after finishing the kitchen, I found out I was pregnant with Jane. After 9 months of being incapacitated I thought about it again - but just never seemed to get around to it with two little one's and the demands of the older girls ...
For most of the past year it has just been that it seemed so intimidating. I've made many kinds of rolls for years - but bread, that's a whole new ball game. Well, when Mum was here I finally got around to buying a wheat grinder & a Bosch. I cleared an afternoon a while ago, and got started.
For most of the past year it has just been that it seemed so intimidating. I've made many kinds of rolls for years - but bread, that's a whole new ball game. Well, when Mum was here I finally got around to buying a wheat grinder & a Bosch. I cleared an afternoon a while ago, and got started.
It was so easy! Not to mention fun. I ground a can of wheat a few days before (wheat we bought in 2002 - that in itself brought me joy.) Really, if I'd had any hope that it would even come close to turning out, I would have photographed the whole process, but I didn't - just the end result. It wasn't the prettiest, but I felt so "Little Red Hen" eating the bread I made from wheat I'd ground. So darn proud of myself!
The whole family loves it, and I haven't bought bread in a few weeks. I am making it once a week, and hoping to keep improving. Even Emily (the one who stopped eating bread once I started buying only 100% whole grain), says she only likes my whole wheat bread - and eats lots of it.
Rick was laughing at my pathetic attempts to cut it - the kids pretty much got a huge wedge every time! Then I noticed these great little lines from the pan on the bottom (I'm sure it's deliberate.)
If I cut the loaf on its side, I get perfectly straight cuts every time and they are just the right thickness for sandwiches, toast, etc. I know - all the bread makers are probably going "duh" right now - but like I said, I'm new to this.
I'm so pleased to be feeding them bread I know is 100% whole grain, and totally free of high fructose corn syrup, or preservatives. It just makes me so happy!
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Yay Tan. I am really wanting to get into this too. I am organising our enrichment night this month and it is a 'thrifty and nifty' theme. I just got off my friends blog who organises an organic food co-op. She was talking about wheat grinders and I think I will get one. (For your interest her blog is www.co-opstop.blogspot.com )
Even more exciting because now Emily has something she likes to eat other than bagels!
Mark & Jeni have a Nutrimill grinder - and that's that same one I got. I did a lot of research & it seems to be the best.
I'm not sure it's all that thrifty - we'll have to eat a lot of bread to offset the cost of the grinder & Bosch, but it is a lot healthier.
The only disadvantage of the Nutrimill is it can't be hand operated. I figured we'll just get a 2nd smaller one, that we will use in the less likely event of power outages.
Your bread made my mouth water. Hmmm ... perhaps I should dust off my neglected breadmaker, which is sitting in the corner of my kitchen.
That is so cool. I want you to teach me when I move back.
When Luke saw the picture of the bread he got excited and asked if we could make some more.
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