Baking can start with making bread

With all that you can bake, making bread is a skill you want to practice first.

8/19/2025

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How rewarding to bake your own bread.

How engaging it feels to be a part of centuries old traditions like baking bread. I am still amazed that I can teach myself the old ways. Many like to use bread machines or buy bread from the store either fresh or frozen, but for me it means so much more to make it by hand.

There are plenty of wheats to choose from with making your own bread. Bread flour is generally one most use, at the beginning and practicing with different varieties as you get more experienced.

Our bread does not go to waste. Whatever we cannot finish we use for other recipes.

All the bread I make is hand kneaded, if it has yeast in it.

Let's say you have leftover bread and it gets hard. No need to worry, nothing goes to waste here. A great way to use the bread not eaten is use it for something else.

Uses for stale bread are:

  • croutons

  • bread crumbs

  • French Toast

Bread is versatile and there are so many different types to make. Daily sandwich bread, pumpkin bread, sourdough bread or a dinner rolls. Breads can compliment any dish.

Much of the adventure to making bread is the many possibilities so go out there and start baking bread yourself. You will see how easy it can be.

Products I Use:

King Arthur Bread flour https://amzn.to/4lW42Gs

One in a Mill dry yeast. https://amzn.to/3Vxs146

Spectrum Shortening https://amzn.to/46jUGzU

Cast Iron pans. https://amzn.to/3HU7tzK

Real Salt https://amzn.to/47sVsf6

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