Good Morning! Remember how I wrote last night that Jim and I had a quiet day? Well, it was quiet until after supper.
I was in the kitchen doing my dishes. And again I looked at my water I had cooked the corn on the cob in. And again, as I did before, I decided to make bread out of the corn water. Well, it didn't look like as much water as I had used before. Remember how I had written before, a few months ago, that I did this and I had way too much bread? Well, the water looked like about half of that this time.
So while doing my dishes, I put some yeast in the water and some flour. I had planned on letting this mixture work overnight, as I planned on a big day of baking bread the next morning. I figured this water would make about 4 loaves of bread.
Well, because of the heat and the corn water ... wow, that stuff began to rise and rise. Well, I thought maybe I will add more flour to get it to the pancake batter stage. I thought, "My, my, that is a lot of flour." And then I thought, "Mercy, this is as much water as I had the last time!!!" But I kept trying to slow this dough down and it just rose like a balloon.
It was very hot in my kitchen. So I told Jim, "Well, I hadn't planned to make bread tonight, but I guess I better use some of this wild and crazy dough." So I made a big pan of rolls and 1 loaf of bread. And still this stuff kept rising. So I punched it all down again and put the big pan in the fridge to slow the yeast down. Even at that, the bread tried to rise over the top and come out. So I punched it down again.
Finally, I put a lid on the pan to hold that stuff in. And I just decided to forget it. Well, in the fridge, it got out and ran over the side of the pan. It wasn't a real big mess, but mess enough. Finally, it quit rising and stopped for the night. My pan is one of those tall silver spaghetti pans? I mean this is a lot of bread. But I had used whole wheat flour for my starter and I have never seen whole wheat flour rise like that!!! It was scary.
Well, I just can't throw that corn water away ... it smells so good. Jim always comes in while I am boiling the corn and puts honey in the water, and butter ... it just smells heavenly. Sometimes we put milk in the water, too -- just a tad. But who could throw all that water out?
So I made the most heavenly rolls. I took some of the bread dough, laid it on the table, and spread it out. On the dough, I put butter and brown sugar and raisins, some cherries and some apples. Then I rolled it up and sliced it into rolls and laid them in the pan. I let them rise and then baked them. I put cinnamon on them, too. Then I made a loaf of bread with the fruit in it, too.
When the bread and rolls were out of the oven and done, I made a maple frosting for them. I just took a bowl, put in a bit of butter and powdered sugar, and stirred it up with some milk. And then I added maple flavoring. The frosting was thin like a glaze.
Wild Man loved the rolls.
I didn't put in any eggs like I usually do. The bread was just basically whole wheat flour, yeast, butter, and honey, and sugar.
Jim, when he saw all the dough, said, "Well, leave it to my wife to do that."