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Charlotte Mason recommends teaching children “handicrafts,” as in useful skills, in addition to their liberal arts education. Upon reflection, I decided that while I could not teach my kids plumbing or electrical wiring, I probably should be able to teach them to cook, or at least, to bake. So a few weeks ago on Friday [...]

The Communion Bread I made last week

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I believe I promised to try to take a picture of this bread sometime and never actually did. So here it is.

Success!\par
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It’s Beautiful! And it’s really good, too!\par
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Rosanne is my in-house tester, and she hasn’t had any yet, but I think it’s pretty good. Judah agrees.\par
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\’c3\’82\’c2\~\par
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\’c3\’82\’c2\~\par
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\’c3\’82\’c2\~\par
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\’c3\’82\’c2\~

Recently the woman at our church who has selflessly made the communion bread for our weekly communion service nearly 52 weeks a year for several years announced that she was tired and requested volunteers to share the burden. Bread being kind of my thing, I volunteered, and got the honor (?) of being the first [...]

Last week was potato bread week. For reasons unknown, even to me, I made potato bread two days in a row. I made the first two potato bread recipes listed in The New Complete Book of Breads : Sister Jennie’s Potato Bread (p 360) and Potato Bread (p 363).\par
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My conclusion? The crust of Sister Jennie’s [...]

One is much more likely to report one’s successes than one’s failures.\par
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However, I feel compelled to admit to the world (or the 5 or 6 people who read my blog, anyway!) that I have recently had a rather spectacular failure in the realm of breadbaking.\par
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I wanted to learn a good recipe for rye bread that [...]