There's No Dinner Like Snowed-Inner

[desperance]

I wonder: will kneading aggravate my back, d'you suppose?

I have bacon, I have cheese, I have no bread. Being snowed in is no fun without bread; but if I'm snowed in, I can't go out for bread... [Note to the curious: no, I am not really snowed in. But decent bread is a mile away and a mile back, and for once in my life I just don't fancy slogging through a blizzard in hopes of finding it. Even assuming that the baker hasn't been snowed out.]

It's been years, years'n'years since I baked my own. But I have wholewheat flour, and I have yeast; I can make do. I just have no idea how much ouchie I'm trading in here, to spare myself the slogging-through-the-snow thing.

I'll let you know...

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Have you considered kneading whilst sitting down? Last time I made fudge I was beating the mixture whilst sitting cross-legged on the floor with the saucepan between my knees.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I cannot do physical things sitting down; it just never feels right. I was taught letterpress printing at school by an elderly man of very fixed ideas, and this was one of his that seems to have rubbed off. Once, just once, he caught me printing while sat, and he was utterly scathing about it. So nope, never again.

PS

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Tell me your fudge recipe?

Re: PS

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

It's more like tablet, and sends people into diabetic coma. It's also the simplest thing in the universe to make.

1lb soft brown sugar (light or dark, not fussed, but really should be Tate & Lyle. I know you wouldn't have beet sugar in the house so don't need to specify cane sugar only).

1/4lb of butter (salted, I use Anchor)

1/2 pint whole milk (or a pint if you can be arsed to let it boil for 10m years until ir reduced - it does make for creamier fudge, though).

Melt butter and add sugar and make it into a gooey paste, Then ed the milk bit by bit, blending, until it's all caramel-coloured bubbling loveliness.

Bring to the boil, add half a cap of vanilla extract. Boil until it reaches "soft ball" on the thermometer (about 116c). As it cools beat it with a wooden spoon until it's cohesive (it no longer sticks to the sides of the pan and it stays in one mass whilst beating, and looks a bit grainy). Pour into tray. Allow to cool, then slice. Most important of all eat the still warm, squidgy fudge mixture off the spoon whilst making "NOM" sounds.

It you want to make it like soft toffee, only beat it for a while and then pour it out.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Soda bread instead? Make buttermilk with the lemon in milk trick and then its just a bit of stirring... proper bread's more fun mind :)

Re: PS

[camies.livejournal.com]

I've just made this recipe and it is as you say. Takes a lot of stirring but it's worth it.