Monday, June 23, 2008

Homemade Bread

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Classic White Bread
Setting - Super Rapid

2 lb loaf

12 oz. warm milk
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tblsp. butter
2 Tblsp. sugar
4 c. bread flour
4 tsp. of breadmaker yeast

Did you know that a five pound bag of flour (which costs around $3 +/-) contains about 20 cups? You can make almost 5 loaves (10 lbs.!) of bread with one bag of flour! Yeast is a little pricey (about $4 or $5) . You can substitute dry milk (2 Tblsp.) and water to equal the milk for further savings!

This bread is good and makes great sandwiches. My daughters both love it and the older one isn't a fan of bread so that says something!

You can also substitute olive oil for butter - I've tried that and it works just fine and honey for the sugar.

Delicious and ready in just over an hour!

If you have a Goodwill near you, I've spotted a lot of breadmakers there recently. You're taking your chances of course on their reliability but for the savings it might be worth a shot!

A loaf of storebought bread here is over $2 now. I can't get over how the grocery prices are skyrocketing! Won't be long before we'll have to grow our own wheat and mill it ourselves. Ha!


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