I have never really been much for baking. As a housevife with 4 children I did bake all kinds of bread and cakes for weekends and birthdays and so on. I always told myself that it was my big Kenwood Chef el. mixer - the noise almost made me crazy. I have had it for almost 40 years. Then last spring it died and I felt relieved. I can bake if i want to. I have always had fun making bread, kneading the dough with my hands, especially with yeast and sour dough, feeling it come alive in my hands.
Once we bought a bread machine. We thought it was very nice and everybody loved the bread, but soon I found out that we ate far too much bread so I hid the bread machine. So now I either knead the dough of use a small mixer for vaffles and pancakes and such things and sometimes make cakes that don´t need much whipping of the eggs.
Then a week ago my daughter got the idea to bake some fancy cakes to take to the office where she works. I didn´t tell here that the Kenwood Chef was broken. So she put everything in and started it and the old noisy thing sprang to life. So now I just say that I and the Kenwood Chef are divorced. I´m not going to use it unless my life is at stake.
Sharon I like your blogs as I do everything you write.
Take care and keep warm.
Magga
P.s. this is a blanket i made for my husband from old rags.
