• Baking issues

    Date: 2008.10.25 | Category: I'm just saying | Tags:

    Clearly I am having baking issues today. Clearly.

    I decided to bake banana bread, and instead of using my usual receipe I decided to look through a couple cookbooks to find a new one. I ended up using my usual, but spicing it up a bit with a few new ingredients, like vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg, as well as honey instead of sugar. 

    I don’t mind baking bread, as I can put all the ingredients into my breadmaker pan, shut the top, press the button and come back a few hours later to freshly baked bread. There is usually little to no mess, and flour doesn’t end up all over the place. I cannot stand flour all over my kitchen. When my husband bakes, he gets flour ALL OVER THE PLACE. I’m usually warned that he’s baking with flour, and then I leave the house until it’s over.

    Anyhow. Flour. Well it was in this very nice clear bag, that was placed inside of a ziplock bag. I’m probably the one who put the flour in a bag in a bag, because I’m the only one in my house that would do such a thing. Today I forgot why I put the bag in a bag, until I took it out of the ziplock bag, cut the top and then squeezed the bag to push the flour into my measuring cup. THAT IS WHEN I FOUND OUT THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BAG WAS ALSO CUT. And then there was flour all over the place. OOPS.

    So I get all the ingredients into my breadmaker pan, the eggs, butter, mashed bananas, flour, 1/2 cup of honey (instead of sugar), salt, baking powder, and baking soda … when all of a sudden I realize that I’m not entirely sure that the mixing arm was in place at the bottom of the bread pan — and the bread pan is FULL of ingredients. I stuck a knife into the pan, and stabbed around to feel for the arm. NOT THERE. After a while I did find it at the bottom of the pan, and was able to fish it out, but I still needed to get it onto the peg. There was only one thing to do — plunge my hand in there. YUCK.

    The bread should be done in a hour or so, did you want a slice?

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