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I made a pretty successful run at Grandma’s rye bread a few weeks ago and decided to look at something else in her box of recipes to try out.
My wife has an annoying habit of wanting sweets for breakfast. Maybe it is me but I just don’t like them in the morning. She loves a sweet roll or whatever with her coffee. So I decided on the Streusel Layered Coffee Cake as my next try. The recipe looked simple and I had most of the ingredients laying around. Here is the ingredient list:
A few days ago here I asked a question about what “1 yeast” was in my grandmothers rye bread recipe. The comments held a lot of good information and I am happy to report that one packet of yeast worked just fine.
Below the fold are a bunch of photos from my first run at Grandma’s rye bread and some random thoughts I had along the way. Forgive some of the photos for not being centered or perfect in advance, as since my hands were pretty dirty and I had my 8 year old daughter assisting me with the camera.
When my grandmother died several years ago one of the things I wanted most when we cleaned out her house was the giant box of hand written recipes. I got it.
Many of these go back to when she was a poor child back in the early twentieth century in Munich.
I was running through them the other day and found one for rye bread.
I have never made bread in my life, but I think this could be fun. No bread machine here, we are going to do it the old fashioned way.
The directions look pretty straightforward. But I have one question that maybe the ChicagoBoyz mind hive can help me with.
The first step is to start the yeast. The card says to dissolve the yeast in warm water. The ingredient list says to use one cup of water with “1 yeast”.
I am guessing that one yeast means one packet of yeast? Any help or advice you can provide is appreciated – below the fold are photos of the recipe card. You can click on them for larger versions.
Ingredients
2 large boxes of Vanilla Jell-O Cook & Serve Pudding & Pie Filling
1 quart of half-and-half
six eggs
1/2 cup (or so) of milk
1 bunch of ripe bananas
1 box of vanilla wafers
