Bread Making Isn't Hard

Don't believe the hype. Bread making is not hard.

I decided there is too much good bread out there to simply keep buying the cheap grocery store bread. I stopped buying grocery store bread almost six months ago. I make my own now. I've spent a lot of time watching videos on YouTube, scrolling through blogs, and reading cookbooks (especially one a coworker gave me as a gift after she found out I loved making bread). The more I watch, the more I read, the more I realize all bread is pretty much the same.

So there was one over-arching recipe I decided to use. It is called Grandmother Bread. I found it here:

Grandmother Bread 

Basically, I base all my recipes off this one. It doesn't matter what I'm making: pizza dough, flavored bread, waffles, rolls, stuffed buns, steamed buns, dumplings, etc. They all use a variation on this theme. I generally use the One-Loaf Standard Recipe and go from there.

My point in this blog is to talk less about why I enjoy my bread and more to just give good recipes I have created/tampered with. Quite frankly, I even tampered with the Grandmother Bread by switching out the sugar for honey (per request from my future wife who is my main Guinea pig).

You will notice that a lot of the recipes on here are very similar. That should make sense since they are mostly all based off Grandmother Bread. Enjoy!