An Accomplishment!

The process:

Cut the recipe in half so that the bread will fit in your teensy tinsy oven.

Convert everything to metric--- ingredient amounts and water temperature.

Get your purified water to the right temperature.

Measure ingredients out.

Mix it up. Humidity changes things....

Hope you did it right.

Shape and let rise.

Convert oven temperature to Celsius.

My little oven heats up nicely, but you get to guess when it is preheated.

Notice there are no smoke alarms in your kitchen. Hmm.

Decrease the cook time and cross your fingers that is right.

Add a cooking thermometer to the shopping list.

Let it cool for a long time because you only have a small serrated knife for cutting it.

Slice and eat. It probably could have tasted pretty awful and we would have thought that bit of home tasted very delightful! But it was quite good!

Needs a little more salt, but that is an easy adjustment.

And it could have been crustier, but we're at a point of not being picky.

Wipe up and decided to try Round II.

This is a wonderful accomplishment!

Grilled Cheese for dinner? That's more money than eating out! My white cheddar cheese was $25. It's worth the splurge.

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