A Day of Baking

On Friday evening a cool wind began blowing; the beginning of a cool weather weekend. For me cool weather days are perfect for baking so bright and early on Saturday I turned on the oven and began with a batch of chocolate chip cookies. While the cookies were baking I made a large pot of chili.

And to go with the chili I made cheese rolls.

Now that I have a new system for storing bread I also made long loaves of bread.

I made a total of 2 long loaves wheat bread, 1 long loaf white bread, 1 small loaf wheat bread, 1 dozen wheat cheese rolls, and 1 dozen white cheese rolls. The cheese rolls are just the right size for a snack so everyone ate these throughout the day.

After I finished baking I made several bread bags out of muslin fabric.

These worked better than wrapping the bread in a tea towel;

And the fabric bag made it easier to slide the bread into a plastic bag.

I even put the leftover cheese rolls in a bread bag.

The bread was labeled and put into the freezer.

I went to bed exhausted but feeling very satisfied.