My mother never met a kitchen appliance she didn’t want or eventually own. I’d largely escaped this affliction but lately I’m not so sure. Case in point: the bread maker, above. I was innocently browsing a garage sale recently. It spoke to me. I didn’t even discuss it with DH. It was coming home with us, period.
The first couple of loaves were okay. Then I landed on a recipe for Irish soda bread. It’s not traditional, classic soda bread but it’s fine in its own right. I made the fourth loaf yesterday. Now we’re having our bread knife sharpened and DH is constructing a bread cutting jig. There’s no turning back.
Uh-oh… at least it’s delicious danger! š
So it is not only the guys that like to buy toys. š
What a jolly little homemaker you are becoming! I had one of these which wound up at Goodwill after a few attempts making bread with my grandson. It was fun but when he lost interest, so did I. Your bread looks delicious and the machine deserves to be kept. Ignore my first sentence; I’m just jealous.
Back 20 years, they were the rage.
One of my aunts has one. She and my uncle make bread through the week.
Oh I know what you mean about the home made bread. I make mine without a bread machine – but do have a cutting jig (thank you amazon.com). I love the smell of bread baking – I don’t bake as much in the summer,but come autumn I go into high baking mode.
My other kitchen gadget that helps with the bread is the Kitchen Aid mixer – it has a kneading tool and will knead up to a 2 loaf batch at a time. Saves time and a LOT of effort. Gotta love those modern conveniences. I’m sure my mother would have appreciated the mixer – she baked bread to sell to the fishermen, by the loaf when we lived in the boonies in Alaska – one loaf at a time in a very small wood burning oven – hmmmm – good ol’ days?
Hey! I have been cleaning the basement recently and I came across a bread maker just about identical to this one. I stood in front of it trying to decide if it went in the toss pile or the keep pile. Maybe your post moved it to the keep pile. (To be unused for the next decade or two.)
Homemade bread truly is YUMMY! Congrats on your garage sale find.