Friday, May 15, 2009

Favorite Things Friday

Welcome to a new segment I am going to call Favorite Things Friday. I am going to alternate between Free Recipe and this one, I was running out or recipes I wanted to post, and could remember the ones I had posted.
So here is something I have just discovered. The dough enhancer. I love to make bread. I don't make white bread, I don't buy white bread. Until my kids were 6-7 they didn't even know the stuff existed. They get white bread other places, which has turned them against the wheat bread. I also didn't make very good wheat bread. I couldn't figure out what the problem was. It was too heavy, and too dense, and it hardened really quick. I thought I wasn't using the right kind of wheat or something, or maybe I needed to use white flour with the wheat flour. But I didn't want to ruin wheat bread with white flour. Or maybe it was because I was mixing it by hand, because my mixer busted, and I didn't have 300$ to spend on a kitchen appliance. There had to be a trick to making bread, and I wasn't in on the secret. I went to a bread making class at enrichment the other night, where my friend making the bread, used this (see above picture). Maybe I didn't know about this because no recipe I have ever tried has mentioned it, and you can't find it at the Smiths or Albertsons..... I looked. I'm not sure why, but it worked. my bread was good. Not too heavy. stayed moist and soft after sitting over night.
This is why dough enhancer has become one of my favorite things......

3 comments:

Kristy said...

Where did you find it at?

COOLWHIP said...

Harmons, I have also heard you can get it at Macys. But, I know they don't carry it at reams. At least not this one....

Cascade said...

You need to go to the web site www.everydayfoodstorage.net she teaches you about how to make great bread and has the absolute best whole wheat bread recipe in the world (it uses the wheat gluten and also some other bread enhancers). I haven't bought bread for over a month and we are loving the home made bread.