"Life As We Live It": "How to be Unemployed and Still Make Some Dough"

WEEK 6
Eureka!
I figured out a way to make some dough while unemployed.

While waiting to hear back from my job applications I submitted, and for my garden to grow, I decided to try a new endeavor.

As you can tell from the headline, I am making some dough while being unemployed.

I am gonna let you in on the secret of how you can also make some dough..

All you need is yeast, salt, water, sugar, flour, and most important of all, time.

Yes, while I am unemployed I am making some real dough....... For my homemade bread.

BREAD MAKING.

I love bread.
I love fresh, piping hot from the oven bread.
I love homemade bread that my granny used to make in her house in Cameron.
She would make giant loaves and pans of small individual rolls. She would make bread all day and then we would eat it for supper with some fig preserves and syrup.

My grandmother, Audrey, started off making homemade bread by hand.
She would mix her ingredients by hand and then cover the dough to rise.
I would remember her making several loaves at a time because we would gobble it up as fast as she made it.

Then one day something odd happened.

My grandmother stopped making handmade bread.

No more mixing flour, salt, sugar, and yeast.
No more kneading by hand.
No more covering the dough and letting it rise.

Nope, she stopped making handmade bread and was trying something different.

She started using a high tech gadget called an electric bread maker.

That bread maker would do all the work for you.

That thing was automated.
All you had to do was pour in the ingredients and push start.
It would mix the yeast, water, sugar, salt, and flour all together, then let it sit and rise.
Then that bread maker would start baking.
All in one pot.

My granny would still make homemade bread, just not by hand.

So, as I sat home, waiting to hear back from job applications and for my garden to grow, i decided i needed to try something else.

As i sat contemplating things to do, I thought about grannies homemade bread.
I decided to make some homemade bread like my granny used to do.

I researched recipes online and I even watched some YouTube videos.

So, on the 6th week of unemployment, i decided to start making some dough.

I bought my ingredients to make some bread by hand, from scratch.

I bought my bread flour, salt, sugar, oil, and yeast.

Then i woke up early one morning, checked on my garden, looked in the newspaper for a job, and got out my ingredients.

I mixed my ingredients.
I kneaded my dough.
I waited for dough to rise.
I divided my dough.
i waited for my dough to rise, again.
I baked my dough.
I waited for my bread to arrive.
I took my bread out of the oven.
I buttered my piping hot, homemade bread.
I tasted my fresh, hot, buttered, homemade bread.

That bread tasted...... Just like the homemade bread my granny used to make.

Cameron may not be what it was, but my memories will always be of home....