Would you please tell me how you make your bread?

I have a basic recipe that I use in my small bread machine which makes a ¾ lb loaf. Small but perfect for us. I don’t change it up because we simply like the taste of yeast bread. I do prefer butter to oil in the recipe but that is the only tweak I’ve made.

Oooh, butter! I haven’t done that in a long time! Thanks for the reminder!

I make an artisan type bread, it’s quite dense. It takes a long time.

I also play around with some basic bread recipes that don’t take very long (they are yeast breads also).

I want to try to make french bread one of these days.

My husband loves when I make bread from scratch. I very rarely do it. Maybe three times a year within 6 months and then nothing for another 6 months or more.

I’ve tried soda bread and I’m not a big fan.

Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of soda bread, either.

Soberdough

“Pour. Stir. Bake.” It is a kit that you add beer or soda to make the dough.

Forty years ago did a lot of sourdough bread with a starter I kept in the back of the frig, ex got the frig and the starter.

Focacia with red onion, veggies, olive oil, cheese. Maybe an edible flower. I really should make some soon, thabks for reminding me. (I’m Paleo so no bread)

Oh, I had forgotten focaccia! I love focaccia!

I buy pillsbury containers. Like cinnamon rolls. Other than that I buy made bread from the store.

At the start of the pandemic, I got some sourdough starter from someone in the local area who posted that she would put out little jars of it for people to take. I made a few loaves in a bread pan (like a pan you’d use for quick breads). It was really good but as you may know, you either have to keep the starter and feed it or get a new batch from somewhere, and I am not good at remembering to maintain things like that.

I used to have a bread machine, and it made good bread but the loaves were small and I felt like it was a lot of crust and so I didn’t do it too often. I think that thing is in the attic now because it took up a lot of counter and cabinet space.

Other than that, I make Irish soda bread a lot, mostly in the winter although during other times of the year, if I have the ingredients, which, the main one is buttermilk. Other than that, I make a good banana bread with a recipe from the NY Times. I like texture so I put walnuts in it. Often, if the bananas are really ripe, I won’t put the sugar in and it’s sweet enough.