How To Make It Feel Like Home
July 14th 2010 05:17
My life is in boxes. It’s a surreal feeling – is it a new start or did I leave something behind? I look around. Hmm…generous kitchen area.
The kitchen benchtop is four cupboards long and the pantry is almost like a walk-in. I should be in kitchen heaven, no? I'm still feeling of sorts. Neither the spices nor the crockery have *homes* yet. Where should it all go? It all feels kind of like when you (accidentally) put the second button into the third buttonhole…
It’s still not quite my space yet. I think about my old pantry – a beautiful organised tiered space where everything had a comfortable *home* and I could find it all with my eyes closed…
I remember how cosy my little space was. The regular smells of cooking and baking wafting from the teeny kitchen into the hallways. I could almost smell it…
A loud knock jolts me from my reverie. It's the removalist with the last box, “breadmaker and kitchen gadgets”. A knowing smile forms and I catch comforting whiffs of bread baking.
My trusty breadmaker sits patiently in a corner as I methodically measure all that I need. Home will be ready in less than four hours…
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I bake with the Sunbeam ‘Quantum SmartBake’ breadmaker, but this recipe can also work for baking the conventional way. Recipe adapted from the Sunbeam ‘Quantum SmartBake’ bread-maker booklet, Muesli Bread.
What you need:
350ml water
1 tablespoon margarine
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon skim milk powder
2 teaspoons almond meal
1 teaspoon bread improver
240g wholemeal flour
280g plain flour
1 cup muesli – lightly toasted
35g dried fruit – if you prefer, you can put this in the fruit/nut dispenser instead of adding it to the mix
What to do:
1…Put ingredients in, in (above) order, or follow the instructions for your bread-maker booklet – particularly the order of ingredients.
2…Select the program for ‘wheat’/750g loaf.
3…Your breakfast in a loaf should be ready between 3hrs 45mins to 4 hours, depending on which crust setting you selected.
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