Bread ala Bosch

Warning: this is a "scratch and sniff" post. Enter at your own risk.

Mother's Day was good to the farm gang. A NutriMill grain grinder, and a new Bosch mixer - homemade bread, here we come!
Simple, natural ingredients.


The recipe is from one of my great old books, from about 30 years ago when I got my first Magic Mill grain grinder.

We're all for quick and easy here - between the Bosch and other modern appliances, this recipe only takes about 2 hours and a few minutes, from grinding the wheat to slicing off a hot crusty end of loaf...a dab of butter and a smear of homemade strawberry jam - which Max calls "the real jam"- and you have a bit of heaven on earth!

Crystallized honey is actually easier to measure - and it's going into hot milk anyway, along with the shortening - it all gets nice and cozy together.




We get yeast in bulk - at about 10 loaves a week, yeast is on the permanent "don't run out" list.

Um - ignore the bandaid, OK? It never touched the dough - honest.


My secret for dividing dough...and the bandaid did NOT touch the dough. Honest.

See? Slick as a whistle. (Bet you don't know where that saying came from).

All tucked in, just doin' the yeasty thing...
Aha! We're ready! Come on, kids, you're headed for...

...the oven (no, it hasn't been cleaned yet).

Here we are, back on the counter again - nice tan, eh? Are you catching that fresh-from-the-oven aroma?

It may be gilding the lily, but we like to do a light butter swipe over the top. Ain't that purty???

I restrained myself from showing you the buttered and jammed slice, this is torture enough, I'm sure.

OK, OK - so I ate the buttered and jammed slice. Then my fingers were too sticky to pick up the camera. And the vultures were circling, I had to go fight them off. Amazing sense of smell, those birds have.