I think I came to a pretty good compromise between endlessly kneading and a bread machine. Amelia (theharvestkitchensisters.blogspot.com) sent me this link:
http://www.sullivanstreetbakery.com/recipes
It's a no knead bread recipe. It was easy and turned out tasty. Here's my bread journey...
Saturday evening I made this:
Oh iPad...how I love thee |
(In all fairness...they did say to generously coat the towel in flour. I was doing what I was told.)
Then baked it...
And it turned out like this!
I brought some to work today and before I could tell them that I had made it they asked where I bought the bread from.
I'm just sayin'. Amy, if you were in town, we'd be going into the bread business.
Give the recipe a try, you'll love it.