What texture are you thankful for? That’s a weird one. This might take me a little while to think about.
I love baking bread. I like seeing the yeast proof and start to blossom, telling me its ready for the flour. I love adding the flour to make the exact consistency for the perfect dough. I love watching it raise and start falling over the bowl because the yeast is so active. I love kneading the bread and getting my hands dirty with dough. I really love the whole process of baking bread.
Over the years I have not always been so great at making bread. I have had many flops. But I have also taught many people the right way to make homemade bread. There is a correct way to do it and there is a perfect science to soft rich bread or rolls.
Growing up my mom always could whip up a batch of bread in a jiffy. She made homemade cinnamon rolls to die for. She even had my dad (Her ex-husband) steeling them from my brother in-law on a day of hunting, they were so good and sought after. She made pepperoni bread rolls that would be devoured in no time at our family dinners. she always made homemade pizza. Each Christmas we would have homemade cinnamon rolls in the morning and homemade dinner rolls. In fact we never needed a holiday for her to do this, just the family gathering. I also remember bowls of bread dough raising in my grandmas living room on the furnace. She would put them in the Tupperware bowl and burp the air so when the dough was ready it would pop the lid off. Then she would bake loaf after loaf of bread. They would be given to all her children and I am sure many church members received Kathy’s homemade bread. She also made us mini loaves for the grand daughters. Her homemade bread toasted with her strawberry freezer jam is a taste I still crave today… oh but wait, we are on texture HAHA I guess that was a rabbit trail or maybe I want some of grandmas bread and strawberry jam YUM! 🙂
I guess that’s where I get the love for having my hands in bread dough. There really is a certain texture to bread dough and a certain feel to the right consistency. But I certainly do love it. Time to make me some bread dough to get my hands into.
The thankfulness scripture for today is Heb 12:28,29 Therefore since we are receiving a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
signing off from one woman to another,
Jenny Wren.
The texture I am thankful for today is the texture of our dog’s fur. They are great cuddlers on a cold, snowy day in Kansas. Man’s (or woman’s) best friend provides unconditional love and that not-so-soft, scratchy, wiry fuzz provides comfort.