Artisan Bread in five minutes a day

I heard about this book from my Mom who had some of this bread made by someone that read the book. My Mom was very interested since she tasted the bread and it was delicious. I decided that I would like to try it out as well, so I placed a hold at our local library (I love libraries). I just got the book this week and have already finished it and made one loaf. I totally expected the first loaf to not work. I thought I would have to work at it a bit. But, amazingly it turned out really good. It tasted just like french bread but better. I was really surprised. It was easy! The best part is no kneading. I have a bread maker that I love and use it a couple times a week to make bread. That is the only way I make homemade bread because I don't like to knead it. This bread you just mix, let it sit, make into loaf, let sit, and bake. The best part is that the book explains how to make a dough that you can keep in the fridge and use for up to two weeks. That is how it only takes 5 minutes a day. You simply form the loaf, let it rise, and cook it. Delicious, homemade bread fast - what is better than that.

As a side note. Everything did not totally work out perfect. I lost a glass Pyrex dish in the process. The recipe states to put an empty broiler pan in the oven on the lower rack and a stone in the middle. With these in you heat up the oven and then place the bread on the stone and a cup of water in the broiler pan. Well, I do not own a broiler pan but I did have a glass Pyrex pan which I placed on the lower rack. I warmed the oven up, put my bread in, and started to pour the cup of water in the pan. OOOPPSSS, bad idea. The pan exploded. It really did, glass was all over the oven. Yikes! It was quite scary as well. I learned you never pour water into a hot, empty glass pan.

But the bread still tasted Delicious!

The Work & The Glory

The Work & Glory is a nine volume series of books by Gerald Lund. It is a historical fiction about the LDS pioneers. It starts when Joseph Smith is first married and leads up to the saints settling Salt Lake City. It is an amazing volume. I do enjoy reading, but I am not an avid enough reader to conquer something this big in a short amount of time. I actually started this serious when I was still in high school, which was nearly 10 years ago. But I just finished volume nine, the last book in the serious. I really enjoy these because they are historical fiction. What a fun way to learn about those faithful saints that sacrificed so much. There were some stories I have heard, but a lot of it I had not. It made everything more real because there was a family that were the main characters and they went through everything that happened. I feel good that I was finally able to accomplish this volume of books, even if it did take 10 years. They were will worth the 10 years.