Dismal.
Dented.
Failures.
Tonight's cornbread was not only little and ugly. It tastes bad. Gross. Not a lick like cornbread. I ended up baking an alternate called Homesteader Cornbread in my cast iron skillet and it is yummification personified. No matter that it made dinner late. But not the bread machine one I had in my Menu Plan Monday. Do not make this bread. Even a Jiffy mix would be better. Ewww. By the way, I doubled the yummy Homesteader Cornbread recipe and it made enough batter to fill my sizable cast iron skillet twice. Oh, and I substituted coconut oil for the vegetable oil.
The oatmeal bread sounded so good. And filling and wholesome. It probably was. For the chickens. Cuz that's who ate it.
Spelt bread sounded interesting. Chickens like spelt too. Thankfully they do not care about density or doughiness or collapsed-icity. They are all about grain. And they are some fuuuullll chickens.
This is how it looked straight out of the bread maker, even before the chickens got to it. Pathetic. The directions said to use the "Basic" cycle. But I am thinking maybe, just maybe, one must use the "Whole Wheat" setting when baking with whole grains, no matter what the directions say.
For now, I guess I will stick with a proven success.
Oh, and if I am late for Soup's On! Saturday, please bear with me. I'll be hanging with Mandisa and a few thousand of my closest friends Friday night and Saturday:)
4 comments:
I'm sorry to hear of your bread failures. I particularly hate those when dinner is waiting on them (or lunch!)
I've had numerous failures -particularly bread machine failures - primarily because I don't own bread machines designed for gluten-free breads.
I'd share with you our tried-and-true favorites, but you likely don't keep the ingredients on hand, as they are gluten-free.
We had a super-yummy cornbread tonight as well. One of these days I'll post it. I adapted the recipe myself and it's FAR better than the cornbread I made before our gluten-free days. (My hubby was a Jiffy addict before he married me, and he snubbed his nose at many a cornbread attempt years past.)
I think you're probably right when it comes to whole grain breads in the machine. Next time the chickens will have to look longingly at you enjoying your yummy toast and tea on the balcony. :D
I'm so sorry about the bread. I hate it when things like that happen! Gotta admit, though, that when I saw the picture, I had a real live chuckle! Only because it looks so much like the bread I used to make with my machine!
Cornbread rocks, doesn't it? Down here in the deep South, it's a crime to make it from a box. I think they take you to jail or something (sure is yummy, though)!
Speaking of things that rock, I LOVE Mandisa! Have fun!
Awwwwwe... I found myself frustrated with my last bread maker... but I think the heat element was bad.. nothing ever rose. I remember that feeling of anticipation and then... boohoo!
So, does that mean your eggs will be especially hearty in the next week?? Can you carb-load the chickens for better eggs... there might be a science to it... (I really have NO CLUE! when it comes to farm stuff... just being silly!) Maybe we should come by and get some, see if there is anything to it.
I know! I was so excited a couple of weeks ago for my first whole wheat loaf and then somehow the circuit breaker reset on the outlet of the bread machine. It was already 2 hours into the 4 hour process. I had no idea what to do. What I did definitely wasn't the right thing either... don't start over. You will end up with a brick instead of a loaf of bread.
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