• 1 cup water plus 2 tbl
  • 2 tbl good olive oil
  • 3 1/4 cups bread flour
  • 2 tsp gluten
  • 2 tsp raw sugar
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 2 tsp SAF yeast

there is nothing in the world i can do better then not follow direction.

i’m a free thinker. i march to the beat of my own drummer. i tend to get carried away. i love to be surrounded by chaos.

i hate organization (i am just terrible at it). i can’t stand a room that can’t be touched. i need dirt. i don’t really pay attention to the detail.

so now you have an idea of why i can’t bake.

follow a recipe, ha! no.

not just no, no thank you. i like to change the world up around me…add chaos to the calm. get dirty. that’s my thing. and probably why a bread machine made so much sense to me.

seasonal eating, making things from scratch, more time to do all these would be helpful. so when i got my hands on this machine my life changed. 5 minutes. that’s all i needed. 5 minutes to be a baker. 5 minutes to never have to buy store bought bread again. 5 minutes to make healthy homemade bread for my family.

i wish i could tell you that it lasts for days…i wouldn’t know. i make a loaf a bread every other day…it doesn’t last long around here. it’s gobbled up in seconds. we spread peanut butter all over it, honey, jam. sometimes i eat it for dinner topped with a creamy herbed goat cheese spread. we can’t get enough of it.

so part 2 in my bread making adventure. peasant bread. a simple country bread made with 7 ingredients.

wet ingredients first, then the dry. not much direction for me to follow. something i can do with out pain. pain of following direction.

peasant bread adapted from the bread lovers breach machine cookbook

i highly recommend using a good olive oil for this bread. something fruity, something light.

  1. place all wet ingredients in the pan first, then dry.
  2. plug in machine, set for dark crust, french bread cycle. press start.
  3. this is one of those breads that needs to be removed as soon as the baking process is over otherwise the crust gets mushy and wet. take the bread out of the machine, take out of pan and rest on table top or as far away from the dogs as you can get.

this is one of those breads i reccomend eating that day. But, if you slice it when it cools and store in a baggy it will last through out the next day.

 

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