Blanket for SJ's baby

Blanket for SJ's baby
Originally uploaded by LMN and Friends

It's done! This blanket took me a month of night time tv knitting & it was so much fun to knit.

Homemade Bread

I have been making my own bread in my bread machine for a couple years now. It's a fabulous recipe and works well (I'll include it here). But I lost the paddle to my bread machine the other day so I thought I'd try making bread in the oven. Here is the recipe I tried: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/fabulous-homemade-bread/Detail.aspx. I let all six loaves rise once, then I baked two and froze the other four. Somehow I messed up the final rise on the two BUT I have baked two from the frozen batch and they rose nicely and are super yummy. I would like to experiement with my recipe to make it in the oven.

The recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup warm water
• 3 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast (2 1/3 T)
  
• 1/4 cup bread flour
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 2 cups quick cooking oats
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 4 1/2 cups warm water
• 1 1/2 tablespoons salt
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup vegetable oil
• 10 cups bread flour

Directions

1. In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, stir together 1/2 cup warm water, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/4 cup bread flour, and yeast. Let grow for about 5 minutes. It will bubble almost immediately.
2. Measure oats, 4 1/2 cups warm water, whole wheat flour, salt, 2/3 cup sugar, and 2/3 cup oil into the mixing bowl. Mix on low speed with a dough hook for 1 to 2 minutes. Increase speed slightly, and begin adding bread flour 1/2 to 1 cup at a time until dough pulls away from sides of bowl. Humidity determines how much flour you need before the bread pulls away from the edge of the bowl. It is normal for the dough to be sticky.
3. Place dough in an oiled bowl, and turn to coat the surface. Cover with a damp cloth. Let rise in a warm spot for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
4. Divide dough into 6 pieces. Shape loaves, and place in greased 8 x 4 inch pans. Let rise until dough is 1 inch above rim of pans, usually 1 hour.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F ( 175 degrees C) for 35 minutes, or until tops are browned. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.

My recipe:
1 1/4 c water
1/8 c oil
1/4 c honey
2 c bread flour
1 1/4 c ww flour
3/4 c mix of oats, sunflower seeds, millet, sesame seeds
1.5 t salt
scant 3 t yeast (put into little hole)
bake on ww setting.