On 05/11/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Carol Shenkenberger: Re: Empires come,
empires go (was: Re: Welcome).

CS> I make all our bread and have for years.  Nothing overtly fancy about it.
CS> Just a bread machine and several good recipes.  Mostly whites or mixed
CS> white and wheat or white and rye, but a few are 100% whole wheat or a whole
CS> wheat and rye blend.
CS>
CS> No preservatives so it will mold and dry out if not refridgerated (takes
CS> 3-6 days depending on recipe used as to when that happens).  Usually there
CS> isnt any left by the time it hits that point, but if there is, the birds
CS> still love me ;-)
CS>
CS> I just use a plastic keeper on the counter and that works for us.  A nice
CS> little slicing guide makes it easy to make samwiches from it.  The guys at
CS> work are facinated and thought I was spending hours each week making bread.
CS> I said no.  Takes about 3 mins to load the machine and let'er do it for me.
CS>
CS> I made a light rye yesterday.  Just a 1 lb loaf.  They ate 1/2 of it
CS> already so will make more later today for work lunches.  Kinda in a peanut
CS> butter mood so it will be a chewy slightly salty italian that will go well
CS> with peanut butter or salami.
CS>
CS> Oh the other reason besides it being just fun to make my own and no
CS> preservatives?  I'm CHEAP.  I can make a loaf for 25cents that costs almost
CS> 4$ here in the stores.  The most expensive recipes might hit close to
CS> 50cents to make (cost of spices, grated cheeses, etc).  If you can find
CS> those cheesy loaves at all, you'll need a credit card to pay for them in
CS> the store!  I saw one that wasnt nearly as good, at over 10$ in the bakery!


Hello again Carol. As I believe I may have mentioned before, it has been many
years since I have made home-made bread...decades in fact. Back during the
70's and 80's, I used to make a lot of home-made whole wheat bread. I have
never used a bread machine. Back then, it was all manual...make the dough,
knead it, let it rise, knead it again, stick it in the oven, and bake.

Here on Guam, with electricity being as expensive as it is, and the tropical
heat being what it is, we never ever use the oven for anything. I don't know
how much electricity one of those bread machines uses, or how much heat it
generates compared to an oven, but one of these days it might be a worthy
investment. My daughter is a vegetarian, and she enjoys food and cooking, so
she might possibly get interested in making her own bread in a bread machine.
But then again, maybe not. She has her lazy side as well, and might just
prefer our current habit of buying whole wheat bread at the store. :)

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