[CindyDawg]

My goal this month is to learn to bake bread. I don’t want another “gadget” though and want to do it the hard way:’)

[nw_arizona_granny]

My goal this month is to learn to bake bread. <<<

Making bread is difficult to learn out of a book, do you know some one to at least go through the first batch with you?

It is something that you learn to do by touch.

Do you have a cookbook, with photos of the process?

I will watch for a good set of photos, there are several on the internet, but I don’t remember where I saw them.

I switched to a bread machine, several years ago and have lost the thought/feel of working the dough with out the machine.

There are posts on making bread from scratch on this thread, but I don’t know where to find them, maybe Vickie will have the number or an idea...

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Cindy,

Try clicking on this link.

http://www.sailusfood.com/2008/06/27/basic-white-bread/

Here's a picture of the finished loaf:

I taught myself how to make bread from my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook; I studied and studied those photos so I would understand how to fold the final dough product into a proper bread loaf. But I had a couple of “off” loaves before I got the hang of it, mostly because of “tunnels” through the bread (although it tasted heavenly).

Let me know if you want to see other pages and I'll find something for you. These new cooking blogs are just awesome!