Category Archives: Bread

Back to basics, Baking, Bread, Mycook ~ Thermal Mixer, Tradie food

Soft Crust White Bread

Soft Crust White Bread Just a very short blog today, a recipe that I made for my sick husband. He asked for just some plain white bread, and we have not had any bread for about 5 days now, and it was a pleasure to make. With the wood stove running it was easy to bake and adds a certain flavor that does not come from electric or gas. And the place smells divine. If you like what you see

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Back to basics, Bread, Mycook ~ Thermal Mixer, Tradie food, Vegetarian

Basic White Bread Recipe

Basic White Bread Recipe   “I would say to housewives, be not daunted by one failure, nor by twenty. Resolve that you will have good bread, and never cease striving after this result till you have effected it. If persons without brains can accomplish this, why cannot you?” ’Housekeeping In Old Virginia’ Marion Cabell Tyree ed. (1878) What a way to start a blog post. Don’t you just love reading old quotes and poems. I am a self-taught bread maker

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Baking, Bread, Tradie food, Vegetarian

Fruit Bread

Fruit Bread Mmmmm fruit loaf, who does not love a slice of fruit bread? The wanting starts when I grind up spices to make my spice mix, the smell just wafts everywhere, there is just something about freshly ground spices, then grating the orange rind, juices are starting to flow. Then I make the bread, then comes the baking. Now I cook on a wood stove, so our bread is wood fired bread. Now, this is a smell that no

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