I just made my 1st batch of homemade bread
 

Boy does it smell good in here and it tastes as good as it smells. I used the recipe from Milk and Honey Farms. It makes 5 loaves of 10" bread with about 15 cups of flour. I bopught all the supplies at Pleasant Hill including the Bosch mixer and the Nutrimill grain mill. The white wheat berries came from Emergency Essentials which has 12 dollars shipping cost for 5 superpails. In fact. the Fedex guy came today to deliver 5 more superpails of wheat and 4 superpails of rolled oats .... all for 12 bucks shipping .... can't beat that.

I have waffles for breakfast everyday and I'm looking at a waffle maker from Pleasant Hill. I have the mixer and the wheat and it would be better and more nutrious than what the store carries. I could make a whole months supply in a few hours.

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Do you have a link to the recipe?

Thanks.

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Thanks for the linkage and enjoy your bread.

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Thanks. I'll have to cut it by a third to let the 2 lb. breadmaker do most of the work. My handle should have been MrLazy.

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What a coincidence...the lady is downstairs making a few loaves right now. I should probably pay attention to how she does it someday. ;)

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good on you for investing in the grain mill, it's a necessity.

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Bread is one of those things you take for granted, until you don't have it.
Homemade bread is awesome!
Everyone should practice making it. Being set up for making it, even better!

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ROFL ... DITO .. Only for me it's the 'man' ....I can hear Hubby downstairs in the kitchen as I type... huffing, puffing while he's bashing the dough.. He's been making bread now for a couple of months.. I'm lov'n it !! Can't imagine going back to the store bought crap..

No bread making machine here ( apart from hubby) It's part of his weekly 'workout' schedule now ! lol

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Just finished the second loaf using the bread machine. (Was out of the house when I needed to remove the mixing paddle this morning and the loaf didn't want to come out). Makes excellent French Parmesan Sesame Seed Loaf and French Dill Loaf.

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hmm nice, I am sitting here this morning with the house full of fresh bread smell. Just a few minutes to go now. Using a machine atm but have all the gear to go 100% manual.

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This must have been bread making day. We had quite a bit of snow in northern Ohio today so this was a baked ham, garden green bean, and homemade bread kind of day. Warm homemade bread and butter....a meal onto itself.....

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I want some pics, dadgummit.

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I just started a new batch of pear wine. Started it yesterday and the yeast took off last night. Woke up to the smell of yeast in the whole house. Fantastic.

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Anyone ever made sourdough starter yeast out of the air?

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IIRC, that airborne yeast is only present in San Francisco. You probably can buy starter dough.

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I live in SF and am going to attempt making my own out of the air. These starter doughs that they mail off with the "Lactobacillus sanfrancisco" ,I have heard, won't survive elsewhere, so it is, after the first batch, a bit of a ripoff.

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My wife made this a couple days ago. Light soft wheat bread that was delicious.
Note that it does not require any eggs. Eggs might be hard to come by when the SHTF.
The recipe is from this site. http://www.moneysavingmom.com/money_...ade-bread.html

Homemade Wheat Bread - makes 1 loaf

1 cup warm water (110-115 degrees F.)
1 tablespoon milk
2 tablespoons oil
4 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 cup whole-wheat flour (we grind our own, see note below)
1 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons dry yeast (get this in bulk from Sam's or Costco)

Put all ingredients in the bread machine in the order listed. Set on dough cycle. When dough cycle is finished, take dough out and shape into a loaf in a greased bread pan. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 20-45 minutes (until doubled). Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

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WOW... I just started another thread about this without even knowing about this one.
I made my first loaf tonight too.

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My wife got a bread maker for Christmas and she been making all kinds of goodies... I love to come home from work open the front door and smell fresh bread comming out of the maker and a roast of some sorts in the Crock pot....

She also makes Jams, peach and Strawberry in the Bread Maker... Sounds wierd, but it works...

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I make a white loaf which I add in some sun dried tomatoes, when the machine beeps at me that is. Then when it is fully kneaded and the baking stage is about to begin I pull the dough of the machine.

Then I cut it into about 5 or 6 equal portions and roll those into balls. Next I get a cake tin. You need a reasonable size one for a 1Kg loaf. You can mix smaller loafs.

Then I put the balls of dough into an olive oil coated tin, evenly spaced and bake. At some point I sprinkle over some cheese and let it finish. When you take it out of the tin and you actually have a bread that is easily dividable into 5 or 6 portions. Obviousy you can put what ever goodies you want into the loaf.

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Has anyone used a Bosch mixer for bread? I'm trying to decide if its worth $399. A bread machine costs a fraction of the price and bakes the bread as well, but does a bread machine knead the dough as well as the Bosch? There must be some advantage to Bosch since it cost so much.

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I have a Kitchen Aid. I would say that the only economic advantage to a mixer would be years of service. Aren't bread machines made of plastic? There is something about a bread machine that gets in the way of the tradition of bread making. Bread needs to go in the oven.

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I have both a Kitchen Aid stand mixer and a Breadman bread machine. I have tried many times to use the mixer with the dough hook to knead the dough and have never made as good a loaf as I make with the bread machine. By the way, I use the dough cycle on the bread machine just for kneading the dough and actually bake the loaf in the oven. I even called Kitchen Aid customer service asking for advice but came away empty handed. My problem with the mixer? How to know how long to let the machine process the dough.

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When I mix I use the paddle for the sponge and then the hook on the knead.
Count the paddle roughly 100 revolutions for the sponge. Kneading you do by eye, adding flour slowly, until the dough no longer sticks to the sides. Of course you know this already. I'm pretty much heading in the direction of hand mixing I think. I know a lot of people as well that use bread machines only for the mixing parts.

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at first I tried ebay for a used one however the prices were near the same as new .... its a blender too and you can get cookie paddles and it comes with wire wisks for making whipped cream etc

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QWAK,I sent an E MAIL to my sister about my bread maker and grain grinder yesterday -- thought I would share that part of what I sent!:s1:

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Made my first bread from flour I ground my self from WHEAT! Not as light in color as from white bread flour but GOOD EATING! :) (cinimin rason)

I did not have the flour hopper in position properly so it made an incredable mess in just a fiew seconds!! Think fine flower like SMOKE in the air in the whole KITCHEN -- won't do THAT agen! LOL :)

Kitchen needed cleaning any way -- never did get all the mess from that can of BEANS that over heated on the wood stove! Went off like a VC satchel charge! Good thing Lonsome and ME were outside at the time! No beans for dinner THAT night LOL and always heated my beans in a POT after that TOO -- MUCH easier to CLEAN the POT!!! ROTFL :)

BTW:When you over fill the WHEAT hopper and the FLOUR hopper on the bottom OVER FILLS and starts blowing FINE GROUND FLOUR out it makes evena BIGER MESS! :) LOL

The place I got the grinder and bread maker from sells hard winter wheat shiped in 5 gal plastic buckets triple cleaned (?) for $75.00 but shiping keeps going up.

I got some big clean GI surplus boxes almost cubes with gasket lid and 4 latches -- heavy steel box! $18.00+shiping each,Milar bags $2.00 each and $1.00 for oxigen absorbers. $14.00 for 50lb of winter wheat at the local CO/OP = $35.00 total and stack better and almost BULLET PROOF!Should be good for 100 years! :)

Perhaps I am just a little CRAZY -- but I don't HURT no body!
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I tried using my home ground flour to make cinimin rason bread -- I have made several loafs with store bought BREAD FLOUR with GREAT results -- NOT so with what I ground first slice when warm taisted good but next day -- more like a "big cinimin rason brick" Did not taist bad but too dry and did not rise like the BREAD FLOUR loafs did. The Dog and the Deer will like IT I am shure:wink: but I'm baking for PEOPLE to eat mostly.:yes::15_1_70v::shine:

the DUCK

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The trick with flour is the grind twice, once medium then fine.

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QWAK,RaccoonRiverRadical,Perhaps with a hand grinder or a slow powered one BUT that high speed one runs like a JET ENGEN -- I SWARE :yes:Takes a min to come to a stop once up to speed! If I tried to put it threw twice I think it would likely make a biger mess. ??? It felt as fine as bread flour in my fingers.:thinkey::dontknow:

the DUCK