
Then he mentions that he didn’t buy any hamburger rolls, *Hint**Hint*, so could I please make some? This was at about 3 in the afternoon. I told him that it would mean eating later in the evening than he had planned. Fine with him.
I needed to feed my sourdough starter, anyway, so I got the starter out of the fridge and let it warm up. Then I mixed up a nice oatmeal bread dough and set the dough to rise. The house was on the cool side…not too surprising since it was overcast and chilly outside and our only source of heat is a woodstove. Sweetie made a fire in the woodstove, which helped. Then the rolls had to be shaped and the rolls had to rise.
I decided to only make four and use the rest of the dough for something different. About a half hour before we were to eat, I preheated the oven. The rolls were still not very puffy. The house was still cool. I had been letting them rise in the kitchen where I had a nice hot pot of soup to throw off some heat. Sweetie stoked up the fire and I let them rise a bit more by the fire as the oven preheated. How on earth did women manage all of this when there was no central heat and homes were even cooler? Guess that was why there was the baker with his big ovens.




The oatmeal bread recipe is the same one I used for Oatmeal Bread in a previous posta little over a month ago. For the rolls, I spread a little milk over the tops and sprinkled on some rolled oats, but otherwise only changed the shape.
It’s been a busy week…I know they all are…but fun, too. More bread making and sweets baking is scheduled for this weekend, plus I’m taking a friend to tea in Benicia on Sunday. Just might have some fun things to post soon.
(Sigh.
ReplyDeleteSorry we missed you -- spent most of my time in the U.S. with some kind of creeping crud of a 'flu. Hopefully we'll see you in May/June. For more of those good ice cream coffee drinks in Seb.)
The one thing I missed this holiday was stollen -- your bread looks a lot like that, and now I really want to go home and make some!!
It looks like little gemstones peaking out everywhere!
ReplyDeleteYou are really getting great bread with your starter. I'm totally impressed.
ReplyDeleteI often have to pause considering how women managed even 100 years ago. We have so much to simplify our chores.
There is simply nothing as rewarding to me as baking bread. Simple ingredients come out of the oven in a beautiful aroma cloud and you get to eat it.
TadMack, I'm sorry we didn't get to see y'all, too. Seems like there was a lot of illnesss going round over the holidays...I had some, too, and lay low. Absolutely in May/June! This was a little like stollen, but a bit firmer.Hope you bake up a storm when you get home!
ReplyDeletePeabody, Yes, it's really pretty bread,
Tanna, that really is part of the appeal...you get to smell your bread and eat it, too :)