Easy Yeast Breads
With the recent change in the weather, we realized that we hadn't baked any bread lately and it seemed like a good time to get started again. We, like many people, have had our yeast-related disasters over the years. There was the dough that didn't appear to be rising and was finally tossed into the trash and a new batch was started. Several hours later, the first batch was discovered, rising quite nicely in the trash can, pushing garbage out of its path. Of course, that problem was similar to the refrigerator dough (a large quantity of it) that completely exploded from the plastic wrap, looking like an alien life form, when the power went off for a number of hours. We won't even get into the number of times we tried to make a bread starter from grapes (we never got it to work). In spite of the occasional disaster, we are usually very pleased with our bread making efforts and hope you will try some of the recipes included in this column. Each recipe takes advantage of either a food processor or bread machine, thus cutting down on the actual processing time. The recipes from this column are
