I've baked a lot of different breads for my family, but I think I baked my first loaf...

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michael-in-phoenix

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...of basic white bread for them yesterday.

It was a simple and classic recipe, with two loaves coming out of the pans, looking ready for a serrated knife and pat of sweet butter. The aroma in the house was heavenly.

My boys clued me in to the fact that they had never eaten home baked white bread before. They weren't very excited, since it looked (somewhat) like the split-top store-bought stuff we never have in the house unless I'm making semmel knoedel. One taste changed that completely!

Sometimes the simplest things can be a revelation!

Michael

 
What a neat story & how different frm my era when my mom baked all our bread & hamburger buns from

scratch, and we 3 kids were ALWAYS begging her to buy us store bought Wonder bread!!!

If you'd like to try another delicious homemade white bread recipe, give Bernard Clayton Jr's Buttermilk Bread a go. I pointed Traca in the direction of that REC posting recently. Wigs

 
Oh my gosh, wigs, that's what I tell people. We felt deprived as kids because

mom baked everything and we never had store bought!

What recipe did you use, Michael?

 
ONe of the things I used to love about my grandparents' visits. The smell of fresh white bread when

I got home from school.

Isn't the sense of smell just so powerful!?

 
Oh, yes! If Mom wanted us kids up early on a Sat morning, she would just fry bacon downstairs in

the kitchen. That aroma wafting up to our bedrooms never failed to rouse us and get us downstairs for breakfast.

Wonder if a toaster strudel will do that for the kids today?

 
My cat's post-breakfast breath did that for me, as she stood on my chest. My mom sent her upstairs

specifically with that in mind. She'd go from one room to the other until we were standing.

 
Oh yeah, bacon! Still works for me. I used to live in a place upstairs from my landlord, and

when he came home after I'd baked bread, he'd yell up the stairs, "Don't DO that!"

 
NICE! That's good that it was a revelation for your kids, Michael...

as my mom, Judy in Mass (or however she's known here) baked ALL of our bread when I was a kid.. I relate a little w/ wig's story about pining for store bought-en bread... I mean, ALL my friends got to eat wonderbread- plain white bread that they could mush up and make little marbles with... All I got was HOMEMADE bread. Unless she made turtles. Then it was OK. Rolls (made of white bread) with heads (eyes of cloves) and legs. WEEEELLLL then, take that, the rest of 2nd grade... *MY* sandwich is on a turtle smileys/smile.gif

Since then, we (Judy/Ma's children) beg for homemade bread- hellooo olive bread, rosemary bread, parmesan bread..., but Noooooo... she's a carb minimalist now. smileys/frown.gif O, the humanity.

I really should check this site more often- you folks are fun.

 
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