I miss my bread maker. I don't eat bread much so when it broke I never bothered to replace it, but when I do make bread occasionally I usually don't knead it enough. It always came out nice in the breadmaker.I’ve been bread making as my kid asked what that machine in the back of the pantry was for!
So the 2 of us have been making a loaf every few days.
I made some rustic no-knead bread to go with some stew we had. I've never tried it before but it was actually pretty easy. Yeast is really hard to find here, though. You guys having any luck?
The first week of the quarantine there was no bread to be found in the stores, so I broke out my bread maker (hadn't used it in years!) That first week I managed to stock up on regular and wheat flour and yeast, so we've had bread ever since. Only failure was bagels.....flat as pancakes!
Some dutch oven stuff, muffins, biscuits. I have sour dough starter but I haven't had time to do the whole process. Maybe next weekend, I've stopped feeding it every day. Put it in the fridge for a week and I'll feed it on the weekend.
I think I'm going to give some french bread a go. Last time a year ago I tried and I had the wrong hydration.
The past 3 weeks or so DH has had me making sugar cookies and tea cakes (his grandmother's recipes). He gets all excited about the "idea" of the cookies and cakes, but after they're done, he eats maybe one or two and is done. After ALL THAT HARD WORK, I just refuse to let it go to waste. I finish them all off and now all my clothes are getting too tight. I refuse to make any more!