Last week I made Pain de Mie for the first time, trying out my new Pullman loaf pan, and it worked really well.  I used this recipe:

http://www.food.com/recipe/pain-de-mie-french-pullman-bread-abm-303501

• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 cup lukewarm water
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1/3 cup dry milk or 1/3 cup nonfat dry milk powder
• 1/3 cup potato flour or 3/4 cup potato flakes
• 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast

 except I used leftover mashed potato and added about 1/4 cup mixed grains for texture.  For the next loaf, I was thinking to try buttermilk instead of 2%.  Should I?  If I do, should I reduce the amount of butter in the recipe? 

 I just LOVE Laurel's bread book buttermilk whole wheat bread. 100% whole wheat and these loaves rise so incrediably high and my family loves them. they are such an easy, healthy tasty loaf!  now i need to get up the courage to slash these loaves......

 crumb pix

from gardener to baker:

We (4 of us) met in 2005 Master Gardener class and continue volunteer working in our community using our garden knowledge and also learning at the same time.
Two of us are experienced bakers and the other two never bake bread before. We start our bread baking journey last week, the first bread we did was the no-knead bread, it come out perfect. These two new bakers are really interest to continue their journey of bread making. Yesterday, we used three different kinds of method to bake bread and see the result of the breads. From left to right, the high rise bread is used by bread machine and set on dough setting. Second one by mixer (Kitchen Aid), and the last two are by kneading and French fold. The students did the kneading and folding of the dough, they learn to feel the texture of the dough, check the dough with window panel, and score the dough before baking, baking the bread and cooling. The rolls above we learn to braid and row into shapes. We had a wonderful time and a great baking day.

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