Nothing will raise the spirits of your family and friends like the smell of fresh bread! Bread cooking, bread rising—it’s a good thing.
It’s way easier than you think. People have been making bread for thousands of years and you can too!
But even though it is easy to make- it is also easy to mess up. We haven’t gone to culinary school. We haven’t taken classes in baking. We’ve learned to make bread through trial and error. And we mean Error! We can’t count the number of failed loaves, messed up breadsticks, and useless piecrusts we have created through the years.
But Grandma didn’t spring from her crib able to make those awesome cookies either! She made many mistakes— possibly that’s why her dog was so fat.
Tip1: Patience and practice.
It can be frustrating to spend energy and time in the kitchen only to have your end result inedible. At times like this, we fall back on our mantra: It’s not the end of the world. Switch gears, change up the menu, and no one will know that your bread didn’t make it. Try to figure out what went wrong later. Right now, try to refocus and relax.
Tip2: Save those failed bits of bread for duck feeding, scatter them for your backyard friends, or compost it!
Don’t give up. Eventually, we found our rhythm. You will too. Once you get your rhythm down, and have a few ‘go to’ recipes that usually work for you, you’ll find yourself cranking out bread and impressing your family and friends.
Our most common error: leaving out an ingredient. We get distracted by Life and zip along believing that we’re following our recipe, only to find out that our bread has failed.
Life goes on! We try to roll with it and improvise.