Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Homemade Bread

Just one more post!

Yay that Cordelia likes homemade bread! Our old cat, Smokey, liked homemade bread. I would take a slice of fresh warm bread into the living room, and she'd come sit with me and beg and beg until the bread was all gone. Then she'd beg me until I got up and got another slice.

Cordelia doesn't like it that much, but she did just eat some innards of a bread bowl.

4 comments:

Jennifershmoo said...

Oh, that reminds me of a story! A knitting friend was telling me that she bought that "Swheat" kitty litter that's made from wheat, and her cat started eating it. Now her cat is a wheat *addict* and will tear through plastic to get to loaves of bread and eat them.

Elizabeth said...

I always used to grind wheat coarsely to use just like that Swheat cat litter, and I don't think that Smokey ever ate it. :-P But then, that's just gross, and Smokey *never* did gross things, like bringing in lizard guts and leaving them on the kitchen floor. (Sarcasm!) (EWW!)

Anonymous said...

I would *love* it if you would post the recipe for the bread dough, or email it to me... I'm trying to find a good whole wheat bread recipe at the moment!

Elizabeth said...

Hi, Lizzie,

I use the Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book for all my whole wheat bread. It only calls for whole grains, no white flour or gluten, and it explains indepth the techniques needed to make light, wonderful 100% whole grain bread. I really can't, in good conscience, just post a recipe from it, because you need to learn the techinique for making wonderful whole grain bread, and just a recipe won't do it. The book is like taking a baking class, because it goes step-by-step through the bread-making process and tells you at each step what your dough should look like. I highly recommend the book, and you can check it out from the library first to see if it grabs you. I have never seen another book like this one--one that uses only whole grains and explains everything.