My friend gave me a bread machine. She bought a new and bigger one and gave her perfectly good old one to me. So, all you have to do is put in the ingredients, close the lid and press a button. How hard can this be, right? Well....Add one twit and one missing part and you have this mess:
Here's what happened...I read the directions, I gathered all the ingredients and added them in the order the bread machine book advised. There was just one little problem. I didn't know it, but the mixing bar was not in the bottom of the pan. If I was familiar with the machine parts I might have noticed that, but alas, I did not. So, after a few times of looking in the window on top I decided that I had probably done something wrong. (My apologies to the yeasty beasties that gave their lives in vain!)
That mess above got dumped in the garbage and a new batch has just finished mixing and kneading and is now rising in the pan. The finished product isn't very pretty, but I did slice off a warm piece of it and it tasted great. Success! (Kind of looks like a Cornish game hen, but it really is white bread.)
