A Simple Yeast Bread
Yeast breads have always intimidated me, with their fickle tendency to rise too much or not enough, or to die straight away and sabotage my meager efforts at making bread. Tricky little yeast, flaunting its living power to create or destroy, bullying novice bakers, making irrefutable demands about its living conditions. Just a simple wheat bread, that's all I want!
Well, that might be a bit dramatic, a slight exaggeration of my reluctance to learn just how to get along with that wondrous fungus, baker's yeast. Reluctance is the wrong word. Fear would be more appropriate. And that fear has kept me from working with any kind of dough other than quick until now. Today, I broke out the yeast, mixed it with warm water to awaken it, fed it some sugar, then mixed it with a healthy amount of flour and a little salt and oil for the eating's sake. I let the yeast do the work for me today, for the first time, though undoubtedly not ....
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