Here's a public alert for all you whole-wheat bread bakers out there:
You can add eight cups of liquid ingredients instead of 10, and your bread will still turn out fine!
Apparently I am not as good at multi-tasking as I thought. Tsk. Wondered why the dough was so stiff, but didn't twig into the reason till it was rising already. That's when I noticed the two cups of liquid still in the measuring cup on the window sill, where I had set it to settle "all the better to eyeball the water level" while doing something else. And forgetting all about it.
Just one more example of why I never leave the room when there is a tap running.
Note added next morning: Normally to toast my bread, you have to put it down twice if you want it nicely browned. Not when you've shorted the liquid, though! One time does the trick.
The older I get, the more distracted by the joys of being alive I get!
ReplyDeleteThat's it ... a good way of looking at it!
Deletethe older I get, the more I like bread. this is Lorna trapped in my brother's blogspot.
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