FRIDAY FOOD THING
Nothing can compare to the smell of home baked bread.
I bought a bread machine years ago. Like most gadgets, I had to have one. A bread machine is one of those items that are used every day for awhile and then eventually wind up collecting dust and taking up counter space. Yesterday I dusted mine off and threw in the necessary ingredients to make a loaf of white bread, and pressed the START button. For the next thirty minutes the machine whirled and clunked, kneading the hell out of that dough. What a mechanical marvel! Then, about two hours later, I discerned the aromatic molecules of baking bread: warm, wonderful, sweet, Mother-and-apple-pie-cozy smells that filled up the house with promises of buttery fingers and chins.
There’s nothing like that smell in the world. . .
A few minutes passed. Then, I smelled the distinctive carbonaceous odor of burned baking bread, much too soon for the dewy-crust finale. Something was not right in my kitchen. I rushed up to the counter and immediately saw — THE BLOB! It was swallowing up the bread machine in a, gooey, amoebic mass. Roll over, Steve McQueen!
I yanked the plug out of the electrical socket and pried the lid open. Inside, the rising dough had overflowed onto the heating elements. At about that same time I noticed the bag of SELF RISING biscuit flour lying on the counter top. I made a senior moment note to myself: Get new glasses!
So much for buttery fingers and chins.
And this is exactly why I don’t have one of these contraptions! LMAO.
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You aren’t missing much.
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Years ago, I left a bowl of sourdough rising on top of my stove while a friend and I went to dinner. When I got home, the dough had overflowed the bowl, run down the front of the stove and was headed across the floor. I guess the heat from the pilot light on the stove helped the rising process along a little too much. We called it “The Sourdough that ate Walpole!”
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lololol! Thanks for the picture! hahaha.
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Awwww, Tim! What a disappointment, a shame, and a slap in the face! Tch! In short, a really crumby deal… will you get another bread machine?…. and the appropriate flour to go with it?…
Annie
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Hi, Annie! Nah. I’ll just go back to the OLD FASHIONED way. Didn’t like those ROUND loaves anyhow. How ya doing? Haven’t heard from you in a while.
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I remember “The Blob”… we had it in Super 8. I might even still have it somewhere! LOL! Did the bread machine survive?
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Cleaned it up but haven’t used it since.
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I chuckled discreetly. Some of the fidgets and fusses you get yourself into are heartening.
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Good to hear from you again, Timothy. Hope things are going well for you in Canada.
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