MindSpinner

I’ve been trying to learn to make bread the old-fashioned way, with some progress to date. Trouble is, a regular loaf is far more than two people can eat before fresh bread becomes stale bread. I have a West Bend Just for Dinner Breadmaker which cooks a dandy little loaf for two or three people in a mere 45 minutes. But because the breadmaker uses an entire package of yeast for a loaf containing 1 1/4 cups of flour to pull off the 45-minute trick, the resulting bread tastes too yeasty to please me. So I’m trying something different, adjusting the small portion breadmaker recipes to make bread that uses 1/4 a package of yeast and takes its time to rise. My first loaf out of the oven tastes much better than the loaf I made in the breadmaker last night. Perhaps I’m onto something.