HBin5 Bread Challenge #1 - Master Recipe

Welcome to everyone that is a part of the HBin5 Challenge. I am excited to embark upon this adventure of baking our way through the HBin5 book. I like the challenge and the encouragement to try some recipes I likely wouldn't have tried on my own. Thanks to Michelle and all the work she has done to organize this bread challenge.

To start off we made the Master Recipe. From this I made a regular loaf of bread but sprinkled poppy seed over the top before baking. Kids were not too excited about the poppy seed but it tasted yummy.

From the same Master Recipe, I made the Epi shaped bread a week later. This is something I probably never would have attempted before but it was really easy to do and made a nice presentation. It also taste best fresh so I plan on making this next time right before we eat dinner.And then the challenge was to make Spicy Whole Grain Snack Crackers. Well, my crackers were tasty as you can see by my son's hand grabbing them off the cooling rack instead of the cheese pizza I had just made. The only thing was they were really not what I would consider crackers - they were not really crispy. I made them thin enough. I think that my expectations were just not correct. They would go well with a soup or cheese as I saw some other people do or as little poppers in your mouth as they cool down. I also didn't use enough spice. I really need to be spicing and flavoring my breads better.

Thanks for visiting and I look forward to many more yummy days ahead.

To see my other bread adventures on my BREAD blog click here.

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Happy baking and bread eating!