Baking Bread & Goodwill makeover...

Yesterday was a perfect day for making up a batch of homemade bread! Mother nature just couldn't decide if she wanted rain or snow...so I stayed in all day and worked.

I'm sharing with you the bread recipe that I've been using for years. It's SO simple and really a wonderful recipe to work with. But right now I have pics of the baby's as promised. You just won't even recognize them. They are growing by leaps and bounds and are just so darn cute! A few of them are very inquisitive and just had to get their mugs right in the camera!

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I've also finished up one of the Goodwill finds...the stack of boxes.

This is the before..

And here's the after...with a little bit of glue and fabric...they look totally different!

Keep your eyes open when your out junking. Look at things in a different way. Just about anything can be revamped into a whole new look for cheap. These boxes were covered in old fabrics using just plain 'ol glue watered down..with a final coat of aging which you can by in the small bottles where ever paints are sold..after I did a bit of sanding first. The inside is recovered in old papers from a book, but you could use newspaper as well.

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This recipe makes 5 large loaves of bread.

BREAD

3/4 c. butter

6 c. milk (may use part water)

2/3 c. sugar

1 egg

1-1/2 TB salt

2 TB yeast

7 c. whole wheat flour

7+ c. white flour

You may choose to use all of one kind of flour.....this time I used all white.

melt butter. Add milk and heat until warm. Pour into a bowl or bread mixer. Add sugar, egg and salt; mix. Add 7 cups of whole wheat flour and yeast. Add white flour until dough pulls away from the bowl, still a little sticky. Let raise for 1 hour. Knead and shape into 6 small or 5 large loaves. Let raise until dough not spring back to the touch. Bake at 350* for 30 minutes. Remove from pan and cool. Put into bags as soon as the loaves are cooled.

I hope you enjoy making this.

So till next time...bake some bread...slap on some butter when it's finished...and enjoy the day!