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March 26, 2007 - 8:52am
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Our daughter's first bread

I should preface this by saying that our daughter has been very interested in bread lately, to the point that in her bath, she pours water into various containers and tells us she's "feeding her sourdough starter".  (I guess Mom has been a little sourdough obsessed lately?)  Anyway, on Saturday, I was making the polenta bread from ABAA and my daughter was getting into the flour and making a mess, so I got the brilliant idea of letting her "make her own bread" by putting some flour and water in bowl and letting her go at it with a whisk.  I intended to leave it at that, but when she had finished playing, I thought "hmm...what if I add some yeast and a little salt?".  Well, I added some lukewarm water, more flour, yeast and a little salt, and since I had no idea how much "kneading" she'd been doing, I turned it 3 times over the course of an hour (as I was making dinner).  I put it in the oven, and presto! - we ended up with this:

 

BA's first bread

It doesn't have a great crust, but it did have irregular holes and tasted yummy as French toast.  She is very excited to do it again soon...


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