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Comment on Sourdough and Spelt, Soaking, bread (food) by Maisy

Maisy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:51:19 +0000

No I haven’t, but I did determine, that when wanting to soak the flour before making bread machine bread I couldn’t set it to go on it’s own at all. Also I couldn’t soak ALL the flour before hand.

I haven’t abandoned this, but don’t do it very often, more-so making white spelt bread with bagged flour in the bread machine sometimes, and making a “no knead” sort of bread with the info available online in many places, just water, salt, yeast, flour mixed up, sits for several hours, then is baked in a pre-heated closed casserole dish in a very hot oven. My biggest desire now is to perfect that no knead bread with soaking in yogurt and my attempts haven’t been nice turnouts, for sure. I haven’t tried it in a few weeks, and will be trying again soon.

The other idea I can give you is that to use the bread machine you do have to have some flour and water in the recipe to mix in I think, so you can try using 1 cup of soaked flour and ajust your recipe around that, how much flour and water (or yogurt) is in the soaked mixture can be deleted from the recipe, as long as the bread machine is checked at different times to be sure and add water or flour as needed.

You can come up with a happy medium if you make bread often enough, with trial and error (most errors are edible, just not pretty, sometimes partially non-edible) I just don’t have any “bread machine standards” I can give you, it’s an art to make bread, and bread machines aren’t really art machines, so using non-standards in the bread machine makes for artsy bread but with much human intervention, unlike most bread machine recipes call for.

Comment on Sourdough and Spelt, Soaking, bread (food) by Diana

Diana — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:04:20 +0000

Maisy,

I see you wrote this 2 years ago. I’m in the beginning stages of making my own bread. I just got a bread machine but have wanted to soak my flour before baking. Have you come up with a final recipe for soaking your flour and then making it in a bread machine?

Thanks so much,

diana

Comment on LG FL Washer – 2277 – OE error by Maisy

Maisy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:08:52 +0000

Michelle, you are very welcome! Thanks for commenting too!

Comment on LG FL Washer – 2277 – OE error by Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:26:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip on the spin cycle! Sometimes the power button on my machine accidentally gets bumped, I hated to have to start a wash all over again because of that! I tried out the spin cycle and it worked great.

Thank you!

Comment on Musicmatch License Help by Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:58:35 +0000

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Comment on LG FL Washer – 2277 – OE error by Maisy

Maisy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:14:10 +0000

I’m glad to have helped someone (you, labrax, in particular) with my post. It’s frustrating when stuff goes wrong that just doesn’t seem like it should and then it’s hard to find the answers. BTDT so many times, that’s why I make sure to document stuff like this when I have problems.

Comment on LG FL Washer – 2277 – OE error by labrax

labrax — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:55 +0000

This comment helped me fix my washing machine. I took out the filter and poked at the side exit hole where the water drains out – there was some lint that was clogging up the outlet. BTW – bad design – the pump motor should have a metal spring clip that you can use some slip-joint pliers so you can take it off (once removing the back access panel) – then you could unclog the drain hose at the motor and be sure that you are getting it all out, rather than poking a bent wire in there from the front of the machine and hope you get it all out.

Thank you for the detailed explanation of your issues with your LG washing machine.

Comment on Our Trip – Stop 3: Feeling Stuck by Becky

Becky — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:48:24 +0000

Maisy,
Hey, sis. I didnt know you were going on a trip up to our old hometowns. I am immensly jealous of you. I can never get my husband to take me to the East Coast anywhere. He never wants to move to the East and that rather makes me sad. Yes, please, send photos, of Willimsport, the old house, Easton, anything that you see. Uncle Abbie emailed me about his trip back east and said that Sam Sheller has photos of him and some of his trip. I forwarded that email to you but I am not sure if you know Unlcle Abbie very well, or if all. I understand. He is very much like Uncle Paul, if that helps. I visited him several times when we lived in CA and have kept up by email over the years since. I have not checked your website lately, and I am glad I just did, to hear of your trip. Have a good time and write more about anyone you see and talk to or find out about.

Comment on Florida Trip by Maisy

Maisy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:04:14 +0000

Sure, I slipped up here. Not on my other blog though. So

Comment on Florida Trip by Frank

Frank — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:34:34 +0000

Hey you’re slipping, what was your birthday present??