Reasons why we are making bread
- I have read so many entries recently about Jim Lahey's no knead bread as reported by the NY times (thanks to Blork for putting the link open to non subscribers)that I feel like I am being hypnotised into having a go.
- Jim Lahey claims a 4 year old could attempt the recipe successfully so it seems like a perfect one to try with The Boy.
- When we move I will miss Him Indoor's bread very much and I hope this will prove an acceptable substitute as I don't particularly want a bread machine to be added to the vast number of rarely used gadgets in the kitchen.
- I may -on being told by The Boy that he had a sore throat and a headache- have been less thatn sympathetic to his plight. I may have reminded him that his last bout of illness has cost precious days of leave and that if he were to be sick again I would not have enough leave left to cover the Christmas school holidays. I may have said words along the line of "tonsilitis OR christmas, darling, you need to choose, you can't have both". Of course in the purely hypothetical case that I may have uttered those words *cough cough* and that I may have felt a touch of guilt on uttering them, what better cure for the ensuing guilt than a spot of mother and son baking? In case you are wondering, his sore throat did not seem to bother him much when he was eating dinner (3 chipolatas, 1 fried egg, half a dozen cherry tomatoes and 2 portabello mushroom), and pudding, and a teacake, so you don't need to call social services just yet, honestly.
Anyway, here are the first steps: the plopping 3 cups of flour in a bowl with a teaspoon and a quarter of salt and a quarter teaspoon of yeast, the pouring a cup and a half of water on top and the gathering it all into really sticky dough. An update will follow when we get round to the next bit. 
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(14.12.06 09:26)
Heh! Cheers me dear - that's the tagline for my next website update -"tonsilitis or Christmas, you can't have both". Nice one. Ooh, you're one bad mother, as them yankees might say.
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