Making Bread

Today, the green group got to make homemade bread and we even made our own butter.  A huge thank you to Sarah, Dylan's mom who came in and helped for the day, we couldn't have done it without you! We used a recipe for potato bread, an old irish recipe.

We started out by mashing the potatoes.

Checking to see if we have the right amount of water.

We added the potatoes, oil, sugar and salt and mixed and mixed and mixed!

Everyone seemed to love kneading the bread!

Sticky hands!

We let is rise for one hour....

Wow, look how big it got!

Eventually, we formed them into loaves and let them rise again.  Then they were ready to go into the oven.

In the meantime, everyone took a turn at shaking the cream.

Eventually, the liquid had turned to solid, and ta-da, we had butter!

Half an hour later, yum...the most delicious smell was wafting around the school, and we had the scrumptious homemade bread and butter!  It seemed to be a hit!