Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Bread in Less than 1 Hour





That was the title of our mini-class for enrichment. It was absolutely incredible! We had two ladies from Pleasant Grove, a mother and daughter team, who teach bread making classes come and demonstrate their recipe. The mother wanted just one recipe that met the following criteria: it had to be easy, fast, a one size fits all (rolls, pizza, bread, desserts) and it must be year supply friendly (thus no need for eggs, milk, oil)! It was amazing what they did. I learned so much, it also made me grateful for a mother who taught me how to make homemade bread at a young age and allowed me the opportunity to learn to love it and in turn my kids love homemade whole wheat bread also, although I do not make it nearly often enough.
Her recipe is:
10 1/2 cups white bread flour or wheat flour (do not use all-purpose flour)
1/2 cup sugar or honey
1 tablespoons salt
3 rounded tablespoons of SAF-instant yeast
3 tablespoons liquid lecithin* or 1/3 cup oil
4 cups hot tap water (the hotter the better)

*squeeze or pour approximately 3 tbls. of lecithin directly into the bowl. Do not measure.

Mix dry ingredients. Add lecithin and water. Mix for 1 minute and check consistency. If dough is too dry, add more water. If dough is too moist, add more flour. Mix for 5 minutes. (Do not add water or flour to the dough after it has finished mixing.) Spray counter and pans with Pam. Shape loaves and cover with a dish towel. Let raise 25 minutes. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. This recipe makes four loaves of bread.

For whole wheat bread, use the same recipe but add one cup of applesauce as part of the hot tap water. Mix for ten minutes.
Their blog is www. pantrysecrets.blogspot.com
This recipe truly does it all and it is really good.

So I am all excited to go home and make this recipe (you are probably asking by now if liquid lecithin is a household staple of mine. NO, I was able to buy some from them, it is great for your year supply because it will not go rancid like oil does and serves the purpose of oil and it is really healthy for you. I promised my kids that we would make some pizza with the recipe the next night. I got everything out and went to open my 25 lb. bag of flour that I had bought a few months back from Costco and it was full of weavels, YUCK@!$@! (not Costco's fault, I didn't get it stored well). So we had to wait until the next night and it was all so very exciting, everyone took part and we made our dough, we made a stuff crust pizza and put it into the oven to bake. Next we made our dessert braid, so very yummy, we soon realized that we had missed the sound of the timer in all that we were doing and burned our pizza. It was a very sad moment for us. It would have been absolutely amazing cause even burnt it wasn't half bad! We ate the middle and the cheese out of the crust and threw the rest away. So use your imaginations as to what the pizza might would have looked like not burnt.
They gave us so many tips and easy ideas, they even have a video that you can buy that tells all of their secrets. My kids love to watch it and were even telling me that night how I needed to be doing different things, it was quite funny!
The best was Sunday during combined Priesthood/Relief Society the men where all taking about how their wives had been baking all of this stuff and how they were loving it!

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