Topic: What about making bread?
I wish we could post photographs here. I have some lovely pictures of my seven and a half year old daughter baking a light granary loaf, by hand with freshly made up Allinson's Dried Active Yeast, Premium Very Strong White bread flour and Country Grain flour. She does everything herself except the hot bits with the oven. She starts the yeast working in a jug with warm water and honey, measures out the flours, salt and sunflower oil, mixes, kneads, proves to double, knocks back and puts the dough in a greased tin to rise ready for the oven and finally and most importantly she washes all the equipment and cleans the kneading surface ready for next time. Her school lunch box often has her own hand made bread in it, and we get comments back from her teachers about how nice it looks and how happy she is to tell everyone how to make their own bread.
We haven't started her using sourdough yet, but I think she will learn how to use it very quickly. The problem here is the time taken for the initial fermentation and slower first rising which require a lot more patience.
Thanks to Bakingmad's post below, picture are available now in post #3. 
Last edited by Dafyddapcennydd (04-02-2010 00:07:05)
