#baking bread

cottagecorelifeblog:

Fun with baking today!

I love tweaking my ingredients from day to day depending on what the dough feels like. Today, I used less flour and splashed some extra water in while I was mixing. After rising for 8 hours inside, this delicious snack is all mine!

Sweet tooth satisfied! Here’s my homemade from scratch sweet potato bread/cake. I topped it with fresh creme cheese icing with a little lemon zest.

1. Pipe tobacco
2. October mornings
3. Good gin
4. Fresh-cut cedar
5. Black licorice
6. Rain on asphalt after a long hot spell
7. New leather
8. Baking bread
9. Horses
10. Salt and vinegar chips
11. Jasmine
12. Warm, freshly printed paper
13. Clean hair
14. Pumpkin pie
15. Rosewater
16. Forests after rain
17. Coffee beans
18. My fingers after eating an orange
19. Chocolate fudge being made
20. Sunscreen
21. Clean flannel sheets
22. Old-fashioned lipstick
23. Campfires
24. Frying garlic
25. Sage
26. The sea on a stormy day
27. Olives
28. Waffle cones
29. Tomato plants
30. My grandmother’s perfume

If you’re like me and love harvest season (especially the Harvest Festival!), but are student with limited resources as far as cooking goes, you’ll be looking for a simple bread recipe that could be baked in a dorm.

I’m not sure about ya’ll universities, but mine allows me to have a crockpot/slow cooker in the dorm as well as a microwave. So here is a recipe for harvest bread that is perfect for dorm cooking!

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
  
• ¾ teaspoon yeast
  
• 1 ¼ teaspoon salt
  
• 1 ½ cups warm water 
  
• olive oil

Supplies

• Large bowl
• parchment paper
• slow cooker/crockpot

Steps to Make Dough

1. Add flour, yeast and salt to your bowl
2. Stir it all thoroughly
3. Add your water to the mixture 
4. Stir until dough forms
5. Lightly oil the outside of the dough ball
6. cover bowl with plastic wrap
7. Let rise for 6-8 hours is a warm dark space
8. fold dough in on itself on an oiled counter top
9. Let rise for another hour

Steps to Bake Loaf

1. Set your slow cooker to it’s highest setting
   
2. Place shaped loaf on top of parchment paper in slow cooker
3. Cover with lid
4. Check loaf after 1 hour, since baking time varies if it is not cooked after 1 hour, check every 15-30 minutes until done.
5. Let cool and Enjoy!

Thanks for reading! hope you guys have as fun of a harvest season as I do!