If you make bread you like and it doesn't kill you to do it, what do you
care what anyone thinks about how you make it?  Good for you!  Keep at it!

Barry

"drifter" <Drifter@telus.net> wrote in message
news:3F67E858.B02D7B23@telus.net...
> >Sylvia wrote:
> > Ah, come on, folks.  She's new to ABM baking.  Don't confuse her with
> > extra touches like "you gotta bake it in the oven."  First of all, you
> > DON'T gotta -- I bake the bread right in my ABM most of the time.  Sure
> > there are advantages to baking it in the oven but the ABM *is* designed
> > to bake the bread as well.  Let's get her able to use the ABM as is and
> > then we can share all our tips and ideas.
>
> You are absolutely right, Sylvia.  I could never make bread.  Never grew
> up with anyone who made bread.  I can cook decently but not make bread.
> I bought a Kitchen Aid, still I couldn't make bread but the pizza dough
> was okay.
>
>     Then I succumbed to temptation.  I bought a bread machine.  Perfect
> white bread.  Awesome multi-grain bread all done in the bread machine.
> Some day, hopefully sooner rather than later, I will bake bread in the
> oven or mix it in my kitchen aid, but for now the distance is too far -
> but my bread makes me proud and tastes great.