Ohhhh! Yumm-o! Homemade bread and butter! Does it get any better that this? Today, because it is restaurant week we made bread and butter! The children were amazed at the transformation from whipping cream to butter. Shake, shake, shake some more! Just pour whipping cream into a jar or other covered container. Add a pinch of salt....and then shake, rattle and roll until you no longer can hear the liquid sloshing around. It took about 15 minutes for each friend to take a turn to shake it as hard as they could. Plus some help from Bette and myself helped it along. We did this while the bread was in it's process of being made!
On to the bread, flour, salt, oil, sugar, yeast, water! That's all there is to it! Well, a little more work than that....we first discussed the yeast; what it was and what it needed to become active: warm water and sugar and then watch it foam up. We discussed the microbiology of yeast, how it helps the bread rise and why it is needed. Who knew that some tiny organisms could do all that work? Then mixing and the kneading to mix everything up "exercise" the gluten to make it stretch and do it's thing. We watched it rise...it took about an hour to double in size...oooooohhhhh....ahhhhh! Then it get's punched down and kneaded again and another rising for another hour....finally ready to bake....it smells heavenly! Finally ready after 45 minutes in the oven. We served it with a dollop of our homemade butter and strawberry jelly and some grapes and juice for afternoon snack. Nothing beats this for yummy-ness!
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