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In praise of bread.  Specifically, home made bread.

The only drawback to home made bread, if you don't use a machine, is the time it takes.  

Its benefits.  It makes the house smell good.  You get to play with yeast.  You can make it any way you want to.  Even if you've never made it, within a month you'll be creating something you're proud of.  It's cheaper than the stuff you buy in the store.  You don't have to bake the whole recipe... fried bread with maple syrup is a breakfast for royalty.  When it starts to go stale, you can make it into croutons, or use it in meatloaf, or use it to thicken soups and stews.  When baking bread, you are engaging in an ancient and honorable art.
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70's hit for BREAD - "I Knead You"  :P
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Your yeast has developed an "infection" as I believe it was the group America, that recorded that particular song :P ;)

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Yo Steve!
What are you doing playing with that yeast ???


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Yeast is the coolest stuff, Race.  I can't explain it.  It sits in a dark jar for a year... get a little warm water and a pinch of sugar and all of a sudden it's foaming.  Or, as Colin Clive put it so well, "It's alive!"

And it is.  The bubbles in champagne and the holes in bread are yeast farts.  Okay, there's a little more science behind it, but in 15 words or less that's what they are.  

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Your yeast has developed an "infection" as I believe it was the group America, that recorded that particular song :P ;)
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Hee hee - was it a dleiberate mistake ?  You decide !  ;D ;) :P

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Hee hee - was it a dleiberate mistake ?  You decide !  ;D ;) :P
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And mine was a deliberate correction....you decide :D

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Thanks for reminding me that I need to bring out my bread machine again, Steve! ;)

Bread is a food that I have always been very picky about.  If I eat bread it has to be very fresh.  Stale bread that's more than 2 days old just doesn't cut it for me!  Don't ask me why! ::)
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That's the beauty of it, CF.  Even if you don't go the bread pudding/crouton route, at least you can spend a peaceful half hour at the park, feeding the pigeons and thinking nice thoughts.

Personally, I'd never have a bread machine.  I like playing with the food too much.  But, you machine users know about "vital wheat gluten", don't you?  I just added a tablespoon full to some white milk bread.  You can find it in the baking section at most grocery stores.  It's basically wheat protein... it boosts the yeast action.  

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That's the beauty of it, CF.  Even if you don't go the bread pudding/crouton route, at least you can spend a peaceful half hour at the park, feeding the pigeons and thinking nice thoughts.

Personally, I'd never have a bread machine.  I like playing with the food too much.  But, you machine users know about "vital wheat gluten", don't you?  I just added a tablespoon full to some white milk bread.  You can find it in the baking section at most grocery stores.  It's basically wheat protein... it boosts the yeast action.  
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Oh yeah. That's that stuff to which some people are alergic.

Then again....

Some people are alergic to yeast as well.

Not me! Fresh Bread in any way, shape or form is awesome!!!

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Your yeast has developed an "infection" as I believe it was the group America, that recorded that particular song :P ;)
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I'd noticed that, too, but didn't dare say anything! :o ;)