Baking

Hello everybody, how is everything?

Recently I have enjoyed baking, so I first of all made some triple chocolate cookies...

In truth I bought a couple of tubs of triple chocolate cookie dough from work for a very cheap price, and followed the instructions.  I know, that is cheating, but it awoken a desire in me to do it without cheating sometime.

Cookies on a plate

Some cookies on a tin.

After this, Louise suggested that I try my hand at making a loaf of bread actually from scratch...  Yes, from scratch!  No bread-maker or anything for cheating.  

Mixing the ingredients - strong white flour,
salt, butter, yeast, and warm water.

Kneading the loaf for ten minutes.

Dough kneaded and ready to prove.

Covered with a clean damp towel to prevent
the dough from drying out.

Voila! - that's the proven dough, which is then
"knocked back" to let the air out.

The "knocked back" dough is then placed
into the loaf tin.

Then placed into the oven for thirty minutes.

And then it came out like this - rustic
perhaps, but still a loaf!

Happy Marv!

Still happy and proud! :-)

Cutting a slice.

Yummy, that looks great!

Taste test..

So, as you can see I had a lot of fun making the load.  I had fun eating it as well! ;-)

I will be making bread again, and maybe get to baking more things.  It is a good experience and I was so happy about it.  Louise took some great photographs as well, obviously.

Thank you for reading.  Please take care.

October 31st 2013 (42 years, 11 months, and 5 days old).