today I'm we're gonna talk a little bit about bread you know so much has changed
in the modern civilization but the number one thing is a loaf of bread you
can almost smell it when grandma used to make her homemade bread it just the
aroma just filled the whole kitchen I'm gonna talk a little bit about the
history of bread you know for centuries it was usually the homemakers job was to
mix up bread andd lots of mothers had many children in her household and so
that meant a lot of mixing and baking of bread it got to be so tiresome
but it was one of the chores that many women had to do in life men there was
the family store and bread became something you could buy imagine that on
a busy day you didn't have to worry about baking your own bread you could go
to the near family store you know the one on the corner where they would
always have some bread and bake two things they would have eggs and they
would have canned food and they would have cereal my daddy used to talk about
his memories and the first time they ever had cornflakes and how they thought
that was so much fun of bull cornflakes instead of some oatmeal then after a
little while became sliced bread what an invention that was the inventor first
name was otto he created a machine that would slice bread and mass-production
and then our life was never the same sliced bread at the store whoa how much
more fun could it get the average housewife was starting to become
modernized and it was exciting and it was new foam did did she have to go
about her daily grind of making bread so we fast forward a couple years and here
we are today you know in the night
90s a new machine came out it was the glorious bread machine now everybody
could have their homemade bread at home they didn't have to go to the grocery
store and they didn't have to bake it this revolutionized the housewife once
more so many things have became popular in 1990s in the 80s that was the year of
great triumph in so many areas it was the era of wealth and it was the era of
having things done for you and you didn't have to do it yourself well last
week I went to the thrift store I bought one item a bread machine it was four
dollars but it was half off and I got it for two it's said oh no it wasn't tested
so today my friends we are going to make a loaf of bread this is my very favorite
bread cookbook it's by Williams of Simona and it was written in the late
1990s so the cookbook goes with the machine
you know when the bread machine first came out it was terribly expensive it
was a luxury to have but through the years the bread machine has become a lot
cheaper just like everything else in life and you know what now you can find
a lot of them at the thrift store and a lot of them at yard sales or goodwill or
in places like that because it's not quite so special anymore
back in the 1990's you've seen all kinds of books and you've seen all kinds of
magazine articles about sat the beloved bread machine but in today's society
it's not that special but you know what I thought I would share with you a
recipe today of my very favorite recipe out of my cookbook and out of my bread
machine so let's get started on today's recipe with a recipe that is for a bread
machine it's always very important to start with ingredients that are listed
first a bread machine handles the dough very differently and so we need
put in the ingredients as they're listed the ingredients are always listed as
having water in first so for this recipe we are using 1 and 1/4 cups of water
the next thing calls for is 3 cups of flour now you can use bread flour or you
can use all-purpose white flour unbleached flour is what you would
prefer so we're going to add 3 cups of flour the flour it calls for 2
tablespoons of dry milk most of my bread machine bread recipes call for dried
milk and then it calls from one and a half tablespoons of sugar and I usually
do two it keeps my recipe very simple
then it calls for one and a half teaspoons of salt and I usually only use
a teaspoon two tablespoons of butter and I always use my fresh homemade butter
and I have a video on how to make that 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and last but not
least the very most important ingredient is our yeast and I keep my yeast in the
freezer that keeps it fresh for a long time and it costs for three teaspoons of
yeast this makes a one and a half pound loaf so this is a large love of raisin
bread now we will add one cup of raisins when the machine beeps and says it's
ready - so in this very old bread machine that I got for half off $2 and
it was not tested so I'm hoping it works we're gonna set it to number two and
that is bread light Mitsos and now it says four hours and it will be done so
in four hours we will see if this bread turns out good
and now we're gonna add some of my homemade raisins to it there we go
let's take a peek oh wow it is rising nicely it turned out
amazing but I want to share with you lesson
number one don't open this while it's baking I couldn't help myself it just
was so amazing but what happens is when you open it up while it's baking the top
can become flattened but let me tell you it's amazing it smells so good
so I know for next time not to open the lid and peek into it but I was just so
excited so this is what it looks like now we're gonna lay it on its side now
what we're gonna do is we are going to pour some butter on it and a lot of
cinnamon sugar so we're gonna put some cinnamon sugar all over it so there's
different ways that you can cut this bread you can cut it this way or you can
sit it on its end and cut it that way I'm gonna cut it this way but I can't
cut it quite yet because I really want it to cool
if you let it cool for like 10 minutes or longer it will be able to sit better
so we're gonna have to let it cool and then I'll show you what it looks like
the best way I have found to cut bread is with the electric knife as you know I
use my electric knife for all kinds of things and you can get these at the
thrift store for 3 to 5 dollars and this is a vintage one from Hamilton Beach and
it works really great so let's just give it a few minutes and cool it off and
then we'll give it a taste test and find out does it taste as good as it smells
you
I'm young so let's give it a taste test
well here we go fresh raisin bread from a $2.00 bread machine
homemade raisins there is nothing to compare I cannot believe the difference
between home dried raisins and the raisins you buy in the store while my
friends I hope you liked this video on the modernization of a loaf of bread
imagine that the housewives of the 30s could not ever imagine having a bread
machine that does all your bacon take care of you one we'll see you guys
tomorrow mmm well everyone have you been seeing a
little bit of a different format in my videos this week I can't wait for the
weekend because I have a lot to share with you if you missed my videos this
week there are right here take a look because they're very different and my
channel is going in a different direction I can't wait to share with you
and later bye everybody
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