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Today I decided to make some bread by hand. It has my first time making bread the old fashioned way. I use to make bread often when I was younger with the bread maker . However the bread maker died many years ago. I chose to make a basic french bread. A picked a recipe from an old book on the kitchen cooking/baking bookshelf.
 Here is the recipe from A Guide to Good Cooking–Five Roses Flour. I changed the 1.5 tablespoons of shortening to 1.5 tablespoons olive oil because it is a more healthy.
 I also modified the water from 1.5 cups water to one cup water one cup milk to add some extra calcium to the bread.
 

 French Bread

 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
 1 tablespoon sugar
 1 cup warm water
 1/2 cup warm skim milk
 3 teaspoons active dry fast rising yeast
 4 cups all purpose flour
 2 teaspoons salt

 Comine dry ingredients in this order: flour, sugar, yeast. Mix well. Add the salt. Mix well. Add moist ingredients. Mix well with a spoon. Now knead until the dough is a nice
 consistency. Now continue kneading the dough for 10 minutes. Now place a towel over the bowl and let the dough rise for one hour. Punch the dough down and knead a few times.
 Shape the dough into two long rolls. Place on a cookie sheet and let rise for 30-40 minutes. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for 30-40 minutes. Enjoy.

The bread was very yummy.