Here's what I don't get.

[anomilygrace]

Why is bread sold in such big loaves?  I like bread.  I like toast and I like sandwiches.  But I never, ever eat more than half a loaf of bread before it gets moldy.

Can't the nice bread makers just sell me half a loaf?  Or...I don't know.  There should be some way around this that I'm not seeing.  Anyone?

Comments

[anomilygrace]

YES, YES I AM!

ARE YOU WITH ME?

[anomilygrace]

WHY OF COURSE! A VERY FINE HAT!

...how do I have no icons of people with hats?

[bodhifox]

Bake your own small loaves, two at a time, and freeze one wrapped in plastic and foil until you're ready for it. Need some recipes?

[anomilygrace]

Hmm, small like how big? I've tried the bake my own loaves before, but I have the same problem with the loaves I make! Which is actually why I stopped trying that...

Yes, please recipes if you would be so kind. I'd love to try it.

[bodhifox]

This big:

http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=105321

This is my great great grandmother's bread recipe. Makes great toast and sandwich bread. I've substituted olive oil and butter for lard and bacon drippings (which are about the same thing, aren't they?)

Anyway, this is simple and will do the four pans I showed you.

6 cups flour (I use King Arthur bread flour, high gluten makes for good toast.)
1 Tbsp salt
2 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 packet Highly active dry yeast
1 pint potato water (boil a small potato until it will mash right up. Take it out of the water and mash it seperate. The starch in the water helps with the texture as it binds the flour. I mash the potato very fine out of the water and throw it in too, after things start mixing together for taste

[bodhifox]

Oh yeah, make sure you spray the pans with a non stick cooking spray. Gran used lard. Feh.

[princess_lesa]

I keep my bread in the fridge, which helps keep the mold away.. When I'm ready for a new loaf, I freeze the old one to feed to the duck at a nearby pond.

[anomilygrace]

Ooh, really? I never knew that. Possibly because I have a fear of cold bread. ...or so I would like to tell myself in order to make a reason why a fairly logical solution has never ever occurred to me.

Or maybe that's why I have you! :D *hugs* That's an awesome idea, thank you.

[princess_lesa]

I went to college in a humid place, so fridging the bread was born. I just still do so. I toast or microwave a few second to take the chill off.

What's nice about freezing the bread is if B and I are going to the park at the end of the work day, I just place it in the truck, and by EOD it's thawed. We enjoy feeding the duckies and fishies. :) We need to go soon. I have a stash going. :P

Glad I could help. ;)

[anomilygrace]

It's an awesome idea. I'm totally going to give it a try. :D

Heee, say hi to the duckies for me!

[anomilygrace]

Oooh, see, that would be PERFECT. Just nice half-loaves. It wouldn't be so hard. *moves to Ireland*

[gramercy]

Take out half, freeze the other half for later? We always freeze bread, but for the opposite reason, we go through it too fast and we would be at the store like every 3rd day.

[pinque]

We get two loaves and put one in the freezer. It always defrosts fine and is a nice surprise when we think we have no bread left;)
We have a very small freezer as well and our loaves are pretty big.

[anomilygrace]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA, I do that all the time. "Hey, I have no pasta, OH LOOK, IN THE CUPBOARD." :D

[anomilygrace]

That's still totally the problem I'm more used to. It's been years since I lived at home with my garbage disposal little brother, but I still expect him to eat everything in the fridge before I get to it.