Since I had never made bread before, I decided to stick close to my one and only recipe for Durum bread.\u00a0 And, given the rise time and bake time, this looked like an afternoon project.\u00a0 \u00a0So, with the afternoon free, I started making bread.<\/p>\n
The first step was to add 1 Tb of yeast to 3 cups of warm water.\u00a0 Pulling out the packets of dry active yeast, I wondered just how much yeast was in a packet.\u00a0 After careful measurement, I was able to determine that a packet contained 2 tsp of yeast.\u00a0 So, one was too little and two was too much.\u00a0\u00a0 Since too much seemed like the better option than too little, I added two packets of yeast to the water.\u00a0 Next was adding the yeast water to the flour and mixing.<\/p>\n
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Since I had never made bread before, I decided to stick close to my one and only recipe for Durum bread.\u00a0 And, given the rise time and bake time, this looked like an afternoon project.\u00a0 \u00a0So, with the afternoon free, … Continue reading