House Finch - San Antonio NM, April 17, 2010
How to Make Bread
"Mix the water and sugar and, if desired, salt in the big bowl. Add the yeast. Go post a couple of messages to K5. When you come back, the yeast should have grown to form a stinky scum on the water."
What you will need:
- 2 3/4 cups (about 650 ml) of warm water
- Some flour (about 8 cups, though it varies). Regular, unbleached white flour works well. Whole wheat flour rises slowly, due to the lack of gluten, but a mix of 1/2 whole wheat and 1/2 white flour gives good results.
- Two packets of dried yeast.
- Three tablespoons (about 45 ml) of sugar or malt extract
- A bit less than a tablespoon (about 10 ml) of salt (optional)
- Shortening--butter, oil, lard, anything that's greasy and edible
- A big bowl
- Two bread loaf pans
- A big horizontal surface--a countertop works well
- Paper towels
- A spoon and a knife
- An oven
- A rack of some sort, or just the top of the stove
- Some butter for later
Procedure
Mix the water and sugar and, if desired, salt in the big bowl. Add the yeast. Go post a couple of messages to K5. When you come back, the yeast should have grown to form a stinky scum on the water.
Excerpted from an article published at Kuro5hin.org March 15, 2003
clipped March 15, 2003
John's Molasses Bread
Here's my basic molasses bread recipe.
Collection: Food and Cooking