4-H
by Embrace Country Life on 04/27/12The girls have been involved in 4-H for the last six years. They have made quilts, planted gardens in the community, completed scrapbooks, helped save endangered animals, baked homemade apple and pumpkin pies, and so much more!
This afternoon, they made bread during 4-H. When I was little and growing up in NJ, my parents went through a phase of making bread. They made all different kinds~sesame, rye, pumpkin, etc. I used to love coming home to that smell in the kitchen. I remember bowls of dough on the counter with the kitchen towels over them...the yeast doing it's job...rising up. And then when it reached the top, we would punch it down and let it do it again. When the bread came out of the oven, we couldn't wait to eat it. It tasted best when it was hot with lots of butter!
Today, the girls also enjoyed making bread. They measured the wet ingredients and put them in the bread machine. Then, they added the dry ingredients. The yeast was added in a "well" in the middle of the mixture. They didn't even have to stir it! They pushed a button and the machine did everything! There was a little window in the machine so you could watch the ingredients turn into a loaf of bread right before your eyes!
So, the steps were a little different than when I was a child, but when the timer went off on the machine, 58 minutes later...viola! The same smell, the same steam rising from the bread as it was sliced, the same look of the butter melting into all the fresh holes, and yes, the same taste as 35+ years ago...
Another day in the country....
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