Delicate White Dinner Rolls

Round White Artisan Loaves (background) & Delicate White Dinner Rolls

One of my recent weekly deliveries to our local organic farm store included my usual round white artisan loaves of bread which have a chewy crust and a moist interior crumb. Along with those round loaves, I delivered their smaller spinoff cousins, the white dinner rolls with which I had been experimenting. I say "experimenting" because I created the dinner rolls, packaged them up into bags of 6 rolls each and sold them all, without even getting to taste one of my own creations! I now need to make more so that I can taste them myself. They must have been good, because they sold out right away.

I can tell you that these little rolls which averaged about 3 1/2 inches in diameter, had a nice delicately chewy crust covering a soft interior. When I gently squeezed a roll between my thumb and forefinger, it gave a springy resistance back to me that told me it was moist and soft inside. Just right to bite into plain or adorned with soft butter. They would make wonderful small sandwiches for a buffet table or as a snack any time of day. Perhaps with afternoon tea.

Here's what the white rolls and loaves looked like during their "proofing" phase:

White Bread on the Rise!

Guess I had better get busy baking some more so that I can try them out myself, huh?


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I've Decided!

Crusty Artisan Bread ~ Wheat & Rye Combination

I have decided that this blog will be my space to write about my new love, my new hobby and my new business: yeast bread baking!

A few months ago after reading about baking bread in a few good books and a few more good blogs, I decided to try my hand at it. Well, both of my hands actually. On my main blog, Mountain Harvest Basket, I even wrote about some of my first bread baking experiences.

My blog readers cheered me on, so I kept at it. I baked for myself and my family and gave some to my friends. Everyone seemed to like it. So I got brave enough to take Hardware Bob's suggestion that I should sell my homemade bread in our local organic Farm Store.

So this past May, at the Farm Store Spring party (at the organic farm), I brought two big loaves of crusty, chewy, moist artisan bread as my potluck contribution, but also as my bread audition for the farmer.

To my great pleasure, all of my bread was eaten and gone in about 15 minutes! We saved a slice with some fresh farm goat cheese (from the farm goats) for the farmer to sample. She loved it, and hired me to deliver my freshly baked bread to their Farm Store every week.

Since then I have been trying to adjust to baking 8 loaves at a time instead of just 1 or 2 for my own consumption. Adjusting to baking that many every week, wrapping, labeling, and delivering them on time as promised. I also have been experimenting with different brands and types of flours, different recipes and different methods of preparation. It's been fun so far, and I plan to keep doing it as long it remains fun for me.

Please follow my adventures as I write about them in this new MotherHen Jen blog. (MotherHen Jen is my baking business name, and also my nickname with my close family.) I will probably also duplicate some of my bread posts on my Mountain Harvest Basket blog. Please come and visit me there too.


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I Guess I Should Write Something

I suppose I should post something here since I already have one faithful follower. Ha!

I haven't fully decided what all I will write about in this blog, but I will finish filling out the blog design and make my first "real" post soon.

Thank you, Zitrone, for checking out my other blogs. I appreciate you.


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