"Priscilla H. Ballou" > wrote in message
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> I've become quite an accomplished bread baker with my bread machine
> doing the mixing and most of the kneading for me. I use dough cycle
> only, though, forming the loaves and baking them normally.
>
> This weekend my nine year-old niece will be visiting me, and the
> adventure for this visit is bread baking. (While it's rising we'll
> check out what's coming up in my yard.) We will bake her first bread,
> and she will take it home with her. It's been ages since I mixed and
> kneaded bread instead of letting the machine do it. I do have a Kitchen
> Aid with a dough hook, and I want to use that for the mixing, so as not
> to introduce the process as one that is *too* wearying.
>
> So, suggestions for a first bread for Emma? I have WW flour on hand as
> well as lots of other stuff and will be picking up white bread flour on
> the way home. Of course I have yeast, vital wheat gluten, honey, sugar,
> butter, eggs, all that other stuff. Even some buttermilk, IIRC. I'm
> thinking white bread for her first, although I bake exclusively WW and
> other whole grain breads for myself these days.
>
> Recipe ideas?

I would keep it simple. Use the "basic white bread" recipe that is in the
cookbook supply with the mixer. WW bread is more problematic to make and I
don't think small children like WW bread as well as plain white bread.