Creating Bread

Recently, I made bread. Making bread is really fun and not all that complicated, and in the end it’s delicious! Here is a guide using some photos and some words on HOW I CREATED BREAD WITH MY FRIEND, so maybe you too can enjoy a fun day creating bread with your friend.

You start by putting yeast in a bowl, and adding water and olive oil. We used two packets of yeast.

Then you add some honey and some salt! The salt is not pictured, but you know it’s in there.

Man if you’re me, you might wanna lick the honey that gets stuck on the bottom of the cap. We finished the bottle! We put in about half the bottle.

You let it sit for a little bit (20-30 minutes) and it starts to look like this.

Oh my gosh like this!

Then you beat it up while you add white flour and wheat flour (use both!) and beat it up the whole time.

It’s really fun to hold and squeeze in your hands.

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID, AT LEAST.

It’s sort of like a baby. Rachel said to me, “Julie, if you drop that bread, I’m gonna freaking kill you or hurt your feelings.”

That really did the trick, so I put the bread back in the bowl.

Put a warm towel over the bowl, and let the bread rise for 20-30 minutes. It will look like this! I was a little scared/intimidated…yeast is alive? And now it’s rising up against us? Oh no.

Take it out of the bowl and put it in a pan you can put in the oven! I wanted to make bread with “dots” which I learned was actually corn meal. You can see the dots on top!

Put dots on the bottom too.

We wanted to put spices in one of the loaves. What you have to do in that situation is put the dough on a clean, floured surface.

Spread some butter and olive oil on the dough.

Then put whatever spices and stuff you want! We put minced onions, rosemary garlic, Italian herbs, and other tasty stuff too.

Roll the dough like this!!!

This is the spices loaf in a pan.

If you want you can put some honey on top of the dough before you bake it!

Aw they’re friends!

Friends inside the oven too!

Mmmm…

So you bake the bread until it’s golden-brown-ish-however-you-like. When it’s done, you might want to cut the bread with a knife!

BREAD UP CLOSE! REAL BREAD.

If you want to eat a sandwich on your fresh, homemade, delicious bread, you could maybe cook some onions!

Oh my god and maybe add some mushrooms.

Oh and maybe snack on some bread while the vegetables are cooking

Pretty much done!!! We melted some cheese on top too.

Rachel and I were so nice that we offered sandwiches to everyone in my family, and my brother accepted. Wow we are so nice.

Ta da! To make your sandwich extra delicious, you could try adding some hummus and poppyseed dressing. This is what I did!

After your sandwich is done, you might want to go watch How I Met Your Mother with your friend. This is what I did anyway.

To make bread, all you need is:

It’s so simple! We pretty much eye-balled all the measurements, as Rachel had the recipe memorized. You can probably do that too if you want to make bread. Be creative. Rachel is the master behind bread pretty much, and I am the super helper. SUPER HELPER.