Yeast breads have scared me for so long, because I'm afraid of killing it and it takes a bit of effort to get it right.
Yesterday marked my first ever *made totally by me* rye bread! Rock!
Here's how it all went down!
The Beastie Yeasties!!!!!!
You have to get em kickin'!
How's this done? Feed em!
2 cups warmer then tepid water
2 packages beastie yeasties
1 tsp salt
1tbsp oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
Think positive growing thoughts for a while, and tada! THEY'RE ALIVE!!!!! AHHH!!!!!
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| LIVE BEASTIE YEASTIES! |
I added 2 1/2 cups white flour and beat it to death until I got bored/it looked like:
Then I added 2 1/2 cups rye flour until it got nice and ballish looking and it needed some kneading!
I gotta say, I really love kneading bread now...it's extremely therapeutic! Kind of a half punching someone in the gut mixed with giving someone a back massage....kind of in between the two.
Step 4: Waiting!
Once it had that "je ne sais quoi" thing...I don't know what it is, but once it's there, you know and you stop kneading, I shaped it into a ball, slam dunked it in a bowl and covered that puppy up with a plate and proceeded to check my email about 100 times, read the news, looked for jobs and failed yet again at passing a level on Angry Birds...right after all that! (2 hours) Step 5!
Step 5: Poking and Punching!
You poke it! If it doesn't jump back at you, you get to punch it!
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| Step 6: Cut it in half, shape it into two balls, cover with a towel and wait again! |
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| Then it looks like this! |
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| Slitting the top can help give the bread balls of love room for growth while baking away. |
Step 7: Bake it up!!!!! Until it sounds hollow when you thump it!
We enjoyed my fantastical rye bread with some homemade soup for lunch: Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!
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