Once upon a time, I had a bread machine. A very nice one as a matter of fact – made by Morphy-Richards. Unfortunately, as it turns out. They are a UK based company. They also have a German website. The UK company does not ship to Germany, ever – under any circumstances. The German face of the company provides no way to order parts.

I did mention that this was a bread machine, right? All bread machines need this neat little blade things in order to kneed the bread. Unfortunately they are not all that large. Careless people who don’t look at the heel of a loaf could manage to toss out that heel with the kneeding blade still embedded. I don’t think I have to draw much more of a picture now do I?

I had started soup –

Mushroom Soup

and wanted fresh bread. It isn’t like I don’t know how to do it by hand. Did that for years when I was young, dumb and had a lot of hand and wrist strength. I did find a nice quick rising recipe

rising bread

and so I had bread to go with my soup …… mushroom and leek if I forgot to say what kind.

the loaf