Of Bread

I’ve been a busy girl. One way I’ve been attempting to save money while Mr. Nutt is off work is to make our own bread and tortillas. I use my Bosch for the bread and make five loaves at a time. Actually, I make four loaves of bread and one “something else” like hamburger buns, soup bread, or cinnamon rolls. Yesterday, I made two loaves of regular bread, then tossed the dough back in the Bosch bowl and put in some dried berries and chopped walnuts to make my Breakfast Bread. I call it that because it is so good, I would eat it all day if I didn’t limit it. I also made what I call a soup bread, which is just bread tossed on a cookie sheet in a french bread style loaf and baked after its rise. Mr. Nutt has told me that my bread is the perfect consistency and tastes wonderful. You have no idea what high praise this is. Mr. Nutt doesn’t like bread in general and is very, very picky about what he does eat. I’m feeling pretty special right now.

The recipe I use for my bread is found in Healthy Recipes from the Heart of Our Homes by Phyllis and Shirley. I purchased mine from Pleasant Hill Grains, but I now have a new favorite kitchen store at Joyous Home. This book is available there, as well as the Bosch Universal Mixer. They are an authorized reseller, which means you won’t have to worry about warranty issues if you purchase from them.

I’ve also been making our own tortillas. We use a lot of tortillas in a day. My tortilla recipe came from Texas Rolling Pins. It is delicious. F1 has declared my tortillas the best he’s ever eaten. I would like a mexican rolling pin to make it a little easier, but I’m not going to buy one. My ex-mother-in-law used her mother’s mexican rolling pin, which was just a broom handle cut down to about 14 inches long. I like that. Perfect size and perfect price. Now, if I could find a wooden handled broom!