Monday, February 22, 2010

I'm making bread again!!!!

With some money from this year's tax return Rocky and I decided to buy some kitchen appliances to replace ones that had started to fail. We selected a Le'Quip Nutramill Grain mill.

And a Bosch Universal Plus Kitchen Machine with an additional Stainless Steel bowl, Blender, and the cookie paddles with the metal whip drive.


I cannot say how much I am in love with my new kitchen tools. They are so much more efficient and better than what I had and make what I am trying to do, that much easier!
Today for the first time I made bread again. This time I was able to make 4 loaves at once. I milled 15 cups of hard wheat berries and then followed the recipe in my Bosch book, substituting organic Agave syrup for honey.
After the dough separated from the edges of the bowl I stopped the mixer and divided the dough into my 4 pans. I didnt' get them as even as I was hoping for.


After a while they had doubled in size and then they went into the oven for 41 minutes to bake.

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After baking I took them out and let them cool for a few minutes.


Then removed them from their pans to cool on the baking rack.


Lastly we sliced up the one loaf that didn't separate perfectly and had a small bit missing from it's underside. Got out the salted sweet cream butter and the kids enjoyed theirs with a few dallops of honey!


My whole house smells like yummy bread. Today was such a lovely baking day.
Special thanks to my Mommy who happened to be over here and gave some general advice as well as assisted me when my hands were too dirty.
and www.sandybosch.com where I purchased my equiptment. They have wonderful customer service, are helpful with answering and researching questions and willing to even contact Bosch Germany to find out if any of the blender and splash cover components contained BPA for me. Obviously they don't, or I wouldn't have purchased! ;)
After having owned a Kitchen Aid that was used when I got it, and a grain mill for it. I can hands down say a few things. The grain mill attachment for your KA will mill grain (pretty coarse, but fine enough to make bread) however, it shortens the life of the mixer. My mixer had started to strain over simple loads and you could smell the motor burning a bit too. For someone interested in seriously taking on milling grain to make their own bread at home, purchase a dedicated mill! You will be thankful when you don't have to replace your mixer!
Because of my cleaning kick, I'm happy to report that even though my kitchen was thoroughly used all around for making this bread, it's back clean in it's original state before we started.
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3 comments:

Nik said...

You've got to be the queen of domestic stuff. I was just sitting here adding "buy bread" to my grocery list and you've whipped up 4 loaves. you put my non-domestic butt to shame.

Can you send me a loaf? LOL.

doreen said...

email me your addy and when I feel better (had an ER scare earlier this week) I can send you some.

Elizabeth Mills said...

YUM!!!! I want some homemade bread!!! :)

Loves your new appliances. Thanks for sharing the pics of them! :)