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.

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[batchfile.livejournal.com]

have you ever made it by hand?
i won't have a bread machine in the house because with the one i had every loaf tasted like crap.

but i can make it from scratch and by hand. it's one thing i can do REALLY well in fact. when i was a SAHM i used to bake all our bread. no, it didn't look like the stuff you buy in stores, but it tasted so good that didn't matter.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Nope, I have never made bread by hand. I am just not a baker, period.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I generally make our bread by hand but I don't always have the time so I was teaching him how to make a basic white loaf with the bread machine so they wouldn't be short of bread.

I got the ABM off our local Freecycle list to use to make dough for rolls. I'm a bit hit or miss with roll dough by hand but get consistent good results with the ABM.