Home baked French rolls

French rolls

It was a cloudy/rainy Sunday, so we stayed at home all day.  We baked hard bread with a bread machine!  It was my first time to use a bread machine.. It's very convenient!  I don't need to kneed and rest to make a dough.  You just put ingredients into the machine, and it will make a dough for you taking a couple hours.

If you are making a 'normal' loaf with butter milk? in it, you can continue the process to bake. And it will bake the dough in a square metal box to make a loaf.  But you can also take out the dough, shape it, and bake in an oven.  That is what we did this time; we took out the hard dough, cut it into smaller pieces, and baked it. 

We got real French rolls!!  It took 2 hours to make the dough (although the bread machine did it), and another 2 hours to shape, rest, and bake it.  Bakers are a physically demanding job!  But hand-made bread was really tasty.  I love the stretchy texture with plenty of bubble pockets.  It's hard to find this kind of bread at local bakeries; I would need to go to a fancy department store.

Laylah and Emma

Then we just chilled out...  It was gloomy with a sign of rain, but I managed to take a walk in the evening.  I listened to the interviews of the US open ladies single finalists: Laylah Fernandez and Emma Radukanu.  They are both under 20 and played really good tennis in US open!  It was impressive and inspiring!   

I finished week 6 of the history class. One more week to go!!