The Day my grandmother found out her daughters didn't bake their own bread.

[fuzzybuddy]

I was 5-6. We were at my grandmother's. All the family was there. My grandmother made some sandwiches for us kids. We didn't like the thick slices of home made bread. We wanted the thin sliced bread-Wonder Bread. My mom & her sisters had gotten caught-they weren't baking their own bread. My grandmother was aghast. She had taught her daughters right. And they couldn't bake their own bread!!!!! OMG. I can still hear my grandmother cry out, "You can't bake your own bread? What the hell do you do with your time all day?"

 

[Camper6]

The odd time I make my own bread. It's very time consuming and the results aren't always that great.

With the price of bread now it's doubtful you save much by making your own.

So what do you do all day? Well you could start by scrubbing the kitchen floor, then doing the laundry, then cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner and then washing up and cleaning up and putting away the laundry.

And if you are lucky and you have children, you might be able to watch a half hour of Jeopardy.

 

[bak2basik]

About 20 years ago I bought a bread maker. I had alot of fun with it and made all kinds of bread. Everyone's favorite was a chocolate cherry bread that was more like cake. I used the machine to knead dough for ciabatta or pizza then let it rise in a dough bucket and baked it in the oven. The thing I didn't like about breadmakers was the shape of the loaf if you let it bake in the machine. The machine now sits in the pantry and hasn't been used in a very long time. The last bread made was banana bread because we like it but Fresh Market has wonderful banana bread and we go there weekly, so another fun project has gone the way of dinosaurs. The best thing about baking bread is the wonderful smell in the house.

I don't remember any of my family - grandmothers, aunts, mother - baking bread in the 50's..

 

[Buckeye]

I vaguely recall that my wife and I bought my son and his wife a bread making machine for Xmas some years ago (20+).

My apologies to my son and DIL.

 

[RadishRose]

Had the machine too, long ago, worked fine until the heat element seemed to be going. Couldn't get the same rise, no matter how fresh the yeast or how carefully everything was measured.

 

[Tommy]

My better half just uses a regular bread mixer and makes all of her breads from scratch. She says she finds the whole process relaxing.