I head to the supermarket with dictionary in hand and proceed to pointing words out like flour, sugar and yeast to the more than willing helpful staff . Lots of laughing along the way as I point and they guide me to an area, then point at a large stack of various options. I go for a lucky dip usually, hoping for the best. I should point out that the shop is half medication half groceries so saying yeast alot gets a bit worrying!!!
They don't have self rasing flour so bicarbonnate soda is another thing to add to the list, and a tricky one to find also. I have managed to find milk over the last few hundred trips so that I have already. Over an hour I manage to buy what I beleived to be flour, yeast, milk and sugar (no hope in finding caster sugar).
I return home rather happy with my shopping accomplishment. Now to find a simple recipe to put it all together. I find one online that looks seriously easy, nothing could go wrong really?
Well yes it could acctually. It says add 2 cups of flour which I did but its as runny as water so I can hardly kneed that?? I keep adding flour until the entire packet is used, but its still pretty damn runny. Feck it I throw it onto a board try my best to kneed it but end up with sticky dough stuff everywhere! I throw it in a bowl, let it supposedly rise for an hour then do another attempt of needing it. At this stage I know it will be a disaster so I just threw it into the oven and hoped if anything it would smell nice!!! After about an hour, it smelt amazing, what came out though was a solid rock hard loaf of bread! I had to taste it, would have been rude not too, almost broke a tooth but the crusty bit ontop resembled bread in some way. Well first attempt down plenty more to come!
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| It doesn't look so bad but beware looks aren't everything! |
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