Bread #1 - Honey-Oat Pain De Mie

So, I've made my first bread this year (#30 on the list).  I haven't decided what kinds of breads to make so I went to the King Arthur Flour website to find a recipe.  They have really good biscotti recipes so I figured I could count on them for good bread recipes too, and I was right.  

My first bread, as the title of the post indicates, was a Honey Oat Pain De Mie.  Of course, I had no idea what Pain-De-Mie was, but according to wikipedia, it is a type of sliced, packaged bread.  I think there's a special pan you're supposed to use but I just used a regular bread pan.  It was a little small for the loaf but it tasted great anyway.  The recipe came from here.

The ingredients

• flour - 3 cups
• butter - 4 tablespoons
• salt - 1.5 teaspoons
• honey - 3 tablespoons
• old-fashion oats - 1 cup
• yeast 2 teaspoons
• water - 1  cup

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I didn't really follow the instructions.  I put the yeast in the warm water, let it start doing its thing, and then added the rest of the ingredients.

This is what it looked like then -- kind of nasty -- but I let that sit for a while and then kneaded it and let it rise and put it in the bread pan and cooked it.

Since it was a little big for the pan it hang over the edges kind of funny, but it tasted really good.

Here's what it looked like this morning ...

It would be a great bread to go with soup or just by itself.  It might even work for sandwiches, if it would last that long.