Homemade Bread

One thing I wanted to do this summer was make bread. I didn't quite get to it in the summer, but close enough. Now that I have Fridays off, I have a little more time to do fun things, such as make bread. I got my recipe from my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook that Monica gave me. I was happy when I found this recipe because it did not require a bread maker.

Here we have the dough. It really wasn't hard to make. I don't know why I was so intimidated about making bread. It just took time, mostly letting the dough rise.

Here is the dough after about 45 minutes of rising. My dough doesn't look near as good as the pictures in the cookbook, but when does anything ever look as good as the pictures?!

This was the hardest part for me. You had to shape the dough into loaves. I wasn't patient enough and I was afraid of handling it too much (If that even matters, I don't know). And I also thought that they would kind of smooth out on their own. They didn't.

You had to let the dough rise again in the loaf pans for like a half hour. The recipe said to use two big pans, but I only have little ones so I made 5 baby loaves.

The finished product! I know, they don't look that great. That part will come with practice, I'm sure.

Taste test.....not bad for my first batch of homemade bread!