OK, it's official ... I have no baking-fu.

[unixronin]

I am, as of this afternoon, 0 for 3.  Even when following the recipe exactly, including the undocumented "wait five minutes here" step (which cymrullewes told me about this morning), I cannot make bread even using an automatic bread machine.  You know, the kind where you dump in the ingredients, push the "START" button, and it does everything else.  Even if cymrullewes supervises the measuring and adding of the ingredients, if I do the measuring and adding and the pushing of the button, the loaf will fail.

Comments

[yndy.livejournal.com]

Are you sprinkling flour on the ground as an offering to appease the baking gods first? I hear that's very important...
And beer - I think the baking gods want beer too... something to do with yeast and all! :P

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Beer is good for some breads.

1 2/3 cup self rising flour
12 oz can of beer

Mix together and bung in a 350F oven immediately after mixing. Bake for 40 minutes. It smells really beery but doesn't taste like beer at all. (Thank God!)