My concern would be that you want her to take the loaf home with her. This
means she doesn't get to taste it with butter and jam when it's hot. A cup
of hot sweet tea with milk? I'd make two loaves, eat one right away, and
take one home..


"Vox Humana" > wrote in message
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> "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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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