baking fun

while in dickson i got to see my dad in all his baking glory. and boy does that man bake. one of the many things that i loved was his french bread. it was the best! and it seemed super easy. so for one night i decided we needed to have french bread with dinner. now i knew that it needed 40 minutes to rise after it had mixed in the bread maker and it was to cook for 22 minutes. i thought i had it all calculated just right so it would come out just in time for dinner. what could be better than fresh french bread? well, i forgot to factor in the mixing time...one hour and nineteen minutes!!! that put my timing off just a little. well, it will be ok i thought. we can just have it as an after dinner snack. one other thing i forgot to factor in was our power going out. yikes! as we were eating a storm blew in and the power went out. not a big deal i thought. then i remembered the bread was in the oven. steve said i should just leave the door shut and wait. the power did come back on not too much later. i then turned the oven back on and started to cook. it had stayed pretty hot in there so i was very hopeful. and would you believe it turned out great. perfect i thought. but if you ask ellyn she will tell you that great papa's (my dad), his bread is still much better. thank you for your support ell.