November 4, 2013

The Monday Munchies~ Rustic Countryside Bread and Link-Up


I know it's been a couple weeks since the last recipe and link up! But don't worry! I have a recipe for you today that our family just loves! I hope you enjoy it too. It is the only recipe I have made that my husband enjoys using for sandwich bread. He claims that it hardly crumbs at all and I have to agree. When I slice it, it doesn't fall apart. And it's HEAVEN fresh out of the oven!


CLICK HERE FOR BREAD RECIPE

I have also come up with a simple photo "how-to" for those who like pictures!

Start by adding the ingredients to your bread pan in the order you usually do.
Make a well in the flour and add the yeast last. Then put it into your bread machine and run it on the dough setting.


When it's done, it's all nice and poofy!

Grease your bread pan and turn the dough into it. I like to grease mine with a tad of butter. It makes a lovely crust! Once I turn it in and get all the dough out of the pan, I kind of push it down a bit, then I flip it out and put it back in the pan. This gets both sides nice and buttered.

Then put it into a nice warm place to let it rise, covering with a cloth.
 During the autumn and winter, I love to use my woodstove!

At the end of the rising time (30 minutes) it should look nice and poofy like this.
As long as it is just curved higher than the pan it's ready. You really don't want it too high before you bake it, so don't let it rise for too long. Trust me. Then simply pop it into your preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes.

It's a lovely crusty loaf when it's all done!
I always turn it out right away to let it cool off and set the crust...
Isn't it pretty? 


See what a lovely bread this is? I cut this end off right away and gobbled it down! 
Notice how there aren't hardly any crumbs?
I hope you will try this recipe out for yourself!
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November 3, 2013

The Homeschool Mother's Journal for 11/3

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  In my life this week…
We are enjoying the stunning autumn weather! After a serious windstorm this past week, we lost a lot of the loose leaves, but there are still plenty of vibrant rust and orange left on the tree! On our way home yesterday it just glowed in the sunset.

  In our homeschool this week…
We are shifting into our studies of the 1700’s this week. Little Britches really enjoys our read-aloud for our history. We will also be continuing our study of division and a review on time. In English we will be focusing more on adjectives and parts of speech. We are starting to incorporate dictation in our studies and that is going very well. I have been bad about not making time for Science, so this week I’m planning on doing it twice as much to help get us caught back up.

  Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
Next Monday on Veterans Day I have a friend bringing her three children from West Virginia (they are public schooled) to enjoy the day with us. They live in the city, so the farm will be an adventure! I hope the weather is nice…Five children outside is a lot more pleasant than five stuck inside!

  My favorite thing this week was…
Was getting a chance to catch up on some correspondence and sending some snail mail to some friends. I love imagining what they will think when it arrives in their mailbox.

  My kiddos favorite thing this week was…
Playing on the new corral system Love-of-My-Life and his father put in. The boys treated it as if it was a playground! LOL!

  Things I’m working on…
I volunteered to take over the information table and bulletin board at our local congregation, so I am busy planning how I’m going to renovate it. It seriously needed an update and ironically several of us all mentioned that we’d all been thinking the same thing. So I was more than happy to take over!

  I’m cooking…
Well I made some delicious pan seared baked venison steak and a fabulous loaf of bread. It was delicious and I’m going to type up my recipe (the bread!) and share it tomorrow with my new week of The Monday Munchies.

  A photo, video, link, or quote to share (silly, serious or both!)…


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