Ok, so I decided while at the grocery store last week that I really needed to try my head at making some type of bread that involved having to use yeast.
No, I hadn't lost my mind, I was just merely thinking of my family.
I settled on this...
Notice the fact that it is a wheat pizza crust (very healthy, don't you think) and that it is HIGH in fiber (always good for all that comes out in the end, you know!)
Anyway, as D-Man slept this afternoon, I read the directions on the box and determined that I would need to start the dough making process about 4 pm in order to have the dough ready to bake by 6 pm. I did my afternoon chores and at 4 pm, I began the yeast activation process.
Now for those of you who have never made bread before that involves yeast (YES, let me say again that I have never done this process) you must activate the yeast using hot water (around 110 degrees). Well, this trusty baker didn't have a thermometer to measure the temperature (until later when I remembered that I had a meat thermometer that would have worked), so I first used 1 cup of hot tap water to activate the yeast from one of the packets. This didn't work, so I heated the water first in the microwave and then dissolved the 2nd yeast packet in it.
I seriously think they include 2 yeast packets for bakers like my self.
So,the yeast dissolved (or appeared to) and I followed the rest of the directions on the box ending with putting the ball of dough into a bowl that had been greased . The bowl was then covered with plastic wrap and a towel and set in a warm room so that it would have time to rise.
Well, you might ask, how was the pizza that night? Well, it ended with this...
Yes, that's right, a store bought pizza crust. Apparently I had killed the yeast with the hot water from the microwave and so the dough became a big ball of blah that was as hard as a rock and was the same size as when I originally added it to the bowl.
Moral of the story...always have a back-up plan when your yeast goes astray or kills over.
4 comments:
Personally, I like pizza "ordered". Ha Kudos for trying something new.
Worth a shot, I suppose. Yeast scares me a little. I can only do it with grandmother supervision. At least you had a back up!!
I'm just impressed you tried!
Thanks for linking me to this...it makes me feel better to know I'm not the only Mama who has kitchen mishaps! And yes, a back-up plan is always a good idea.
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