This is how I made bread this morning. Yesterday, I had made corn on the cob for 13 people. In the big pan of water to cook it in, I put in salt, a half a stick of butter, sugar and milk to boil the corn in. Well, I told Jim, "Mercy! I am savin' that water for something ... it has way too much good stuff in it to throw it out."
So, this morning, I added yeast to the water, and some extra sugar and shortening, and started adding bread flour to make bread. Well, actually, I added the yeast too quick to the corn water that I had heated up. So I quickly added some leftover cottage cheese to cool it off, as the yeast will die if the water is too hot. Well, I didn't realize I had so much water. The more water ya got, the more bread you end up with. Well, I kept adding flour ... and kept a-d-d-i-n-g flour. And kept adding flour and kneading the bread.
I went through 8 pounds of flour. I had to mix it in the big corn pan. I couldn't mix it that much as I was runnin' out of pan. So Papa is watchin' me and wonderin' "What the heck?"
Anyway, the bread is half way kneaded and I have it sitting outside in a pan on the sidewalk in the sun, rising. I will let it rise some and then knead it some more. Then I will have to let half of it rise in my bread bowl and the rest, I will keep in the pan. I probably have enough bread for about 6 or 8 loaves of bread. What was I thinkin'? Well, for sure, I was thinkin' of makin' bread.
What I will do is make some bread today and then I will put the rest in the refrigerator. I can make bread until the cows come on home. I will probably make some cinnamon rolls. too. Whatever!!!
And here I was gonna rest today? I really thought that I would be makin' about 2 big loaves of bread until I really got into it all ... up to my elbows? Well, I won't have to buy bread for a while.
Well, better go. I have to clean up my mess and get a work space to organize my bread dough. What a riot!
