As some of you oldies know, I'm not a cook. My kids grew up thinking that being told to get ready for dinner meant getting their coats on and meeting us at the car.
:rofl:
You may have noticed that I never contribute to the recipe threads. :smile:
However, I recently saw a breadmachine on a lightening deal on Amazon that was so good that I couldn't pass it up.
Okay, I thought, how hard can it be to make a loaf of bread in a machine?
Well, the first loaf that I made using a recipe from the instruction manual was okay but not great. So I turned to the trusty Internet and found a bunch of recipes on an online recipe site. One was called "Best Breadmachine Bread" and had over 300 reviews as the best bread they had ever made.
So, I thought, why not try that one? The first kink was that it said a packet of Breadmachine yeast and I had a bottle of Breadmachine yeast. Luckily, the bottle had equivalents on it (in very small print) so I used 2.25 TABLESPOONS of yeast.
Did I mention that I don't cook?
I peeked in while it was kneading and it looked dry so I added more water. Then it looked okay so off I went.
When it was ready, I opened the top and found a loaf of bread with the top totally caved in. I went back to the instruction manual and looked up the problem page and it said that too much yeast could cause that problem.
I looked back at the bottle and realized that it said 2.25 TEASPOONS instead of tablespoons.
The bread is rather yeasty smelling and very dense. Maybe the birds will enjoy it.
If at first you don't succeed. . .
Anyone have a cooking disaster to share so I don't feel so bad? :bag:
~Kathy
:rofl:
You may have noticed that I never contribute to the recipe threads. :smile:
However, I recently saw a breadmachine on a lightening deal on Amazon that was so good that I couldn't pass it up.
Okay, I thought, how hard can it be to make a loaf of bread in a machine?
Well, the first loaf that I made using a recipe from the instruction manual was okay but not great. So I turned to the trusty Internet and found a bunch of recipes on an online recipe site. One was called "Best Breadmachine Bread" and had over 300 reviews as the best bread they had ever made.
So, I thought, why not try that one? The first kink was that it said a packet of Breadmachine yeast and I had a bottle of Breadmachine yeast. Luckily, the bottle had equivalents on it (in very small print) so I used 2.25 TABLESPOONS of yeast.
Did I mention that I don't cook?
I peeked in while it was kneading and it looked dry so I added more water. Then it looked okay so off I went.
When it was ready, I opened the top and found a loaf of bread with the top totally caved in. I went back to the instruction manual and looked up the problem page and it said that too much yeast could cause that problem.
I looked back at the bottle and realized that it said 2.25 TEASPOONS instead of tablespoons.
The bread is rather yeasty smelling and very dense. Maybe the birds will enjoy it.
If at first you don't succeed. . .
Anyone have a cooking disaster to share so I don't feel so bad? :bag:
~Kathy