Urban Pioneer
• Jan. 5, 2006 - Bread Making and Antiques!
All these posts on bread have inspired me to go make some!
So I went into the kitchen, started the dough in my kitchen-aid after
it was mixed I dumped it into my great-grandmother's bread bowl that my
mother had just given me over Christmas. I couldnt find the bread
hook for my Kitchen-Aid which is why I was kneading it by hand. I
do have a question, if you knead the dough by machine, does it take
less time than by doing it by hand? Curious about that one!
I loved the fact that I was probably doing what my great grandmother
did about 100 years ago, making bread in the same bowl that she
did! Yes, I am sentimental.
I love antiques, especially ones that have been in the family and I
know th history to.. My mother along with the bread bowl (made
out of wood, it looks kind of like a rounded miniature dugout canoe)
also gave me her hoosier cabinet with the sugar and the flour
holders. This cabinet had been my grandmother's as long as my mom
can remember. My grandfather worked for the
government (Weather Bureau) during the depression and sometimes this
cabinet was the only kitchen my grandmother had! It is pretty
cool, I would love to have an oldfashioned looking kitchen (with all of
today's modern conveniences of course...although I could live without a
microwave), with maybe and open fireplace or at least a brick
oven.....dreaming of my homestead again! I will have to write
this down for my hubby, thankfully we have similar tastes in that area!
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• Jan. 5, 2006 - Untitled Comment
I don't know if the mixer takes more time than mixing by hand--but I have found (and it's probably just ME) but I find I get a more even mix of the dough when I use the mixer. Still enjoy making it by hand tho. ;)
Blessings
Lisa