First Published: 2019 January 13
We’re getting ready to return to Grinnell. As a result, we decided to clear out our food. We had around two pounds of bread, a pound of brown sugar, salt,1 and a packet of yeast. So, I decided to make bread.
With the one packet of yeast added to most of the flour, I dumped in the very precise measurements of “some” salt and brown sugar. That being accomplished,2 I added water to the flour. As I realized that there was still far too much flour, I found out we also had extra milk. So, I added more flour, and I3 added milk to the flour, and continued to work.
I then got bored while kneading, so picked up the dough and kneaded as I walked and visited other rooms. After letting it rise for 2.5 hours,4 I rekneaded, and let rest for the entirely unreasonable length of 3 minutes.5 I put it in the oven and walked away for ten minutes.
When I returned, the bread looked more like a cake. It had risen quite nicely. Of course, it wasn’t browning, even after 30 minutes, so I bumped the temp from 350 to 400.6 It still didn’t brown, but did turn a nice light brown colour.7
Reviews from housemates were positive. As for myself, I’d give it a solid neutral. As my father would say, “c’est la vie.”8
stolen from another room↩︎
sometimes Latin class pops up in the worst ways↩︎
I’ve been told I comma splice, so rather than change the problem, I just make sure to have more independent clauses↩︎
I was so forgetful↩︎
I’m impatient↩︎
F because I love small changes and hate water-based systems↩︎
wow that’s a bad sentence. Also, a break was taken before writing this sentence because I realized I’d forgotten the bread in the oven↩︎
la vee↩︎