Baking Day

Though the mercury will rise again today to almost 90 degrees, this morning it's a cool 57 & there's a nip in the air. A wonderful day for baking!

Bread recipes have come and gone around here. A few have stayed. The overall favorite, however,  remains buttermilk bread.

 It's the recipe that I first made, as a newlywed, by hand & brute strength, -- (With what strength I had, that is.) -- then later with the Kitchen Aid mixer & it's dough hook. What a wonderful & rare luxury that was in the early 70's!

Our mothers mixers were all Sunbeam Mixmasters with that large glass bowl that went round & round as the two silver beaters whirled away. (Lot's of good licking from those beaters!) 

They made great cakes, meringues & mashed potatoes, but could never begin to handle bread dough.)

And then came the Cuisinart food processor. It makes a silky bread dough - complete with kneading in about 3 minutes. What a wonderful invention of convenience!  

But then, -  fresh, 'warm from the oven' yeast bread is worth any amount of work and effort!

QUESTION:

(Do they use as much buttermilk up North, as we do down here? It makes baked goods so very tender.)

But let's talk buttermilk another day.