Kurt's Bachelor Cooking

[Kurt]

Get a cup of warm water, 2.25 teaspoons yeast and 2 tablespoons sugar and let the yeast react for 10 minutes in your bread maker. Add: 1/4 cup oil 3 cups flour (or 2.5 cups flour and .5 cups pancake mix) 1.5 teaspoons salt The key is really letting the yeast work for 10 minutes first and not follow the common advice of putting it on top of the dry stuff.

Adjusted recipe for home made sourdough bread: 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons sugar (honey/brown sugar, etc) 1/4 cup cooking oil 2 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Use dough cycle Take out the bread and shape it on a baking sheet Let rise for 4 more hours.

Sour dough is just too much work unless you're out of yeast. But...I made a loaf that used a little less yeast and about 1/3 cup of sour dough starter and just made it in the bread machine and it was really good and a lot easier.

1 cup luke warm water
1.75 teaspoons yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
Let sit for 10 minutes

Add 1/4 cup oil
1/3 cup sour dough starter
3 cups flour
1.5 teaspoons salt

Set bread machine to 1.5 lb loaf.