Depression Era Homemade Bread

I found this recipe for Depression Era Homemade bread on fellow SITSah Tiffany's blog Eat At Home. At first I was a little skeptical because the recipe called for a WHOLE 5 pound bag of flour. I don't know about you but that's a LOT of flour to put in a bowl. At our house we actually don't have a bowl big enough to put all that flour in so I actually had to 1/2 the recipe and use two bowls. I will warn you if you do try to make this recipe be prepared to get dirty! As skeptical as I was in the beginning after the bread came out of the oven I was very easily won over....It tastes AWESOME! For the price of a bag of flour (we already had the rest of the ingredients at the house) I was able to make 5 loaves of bread. Right now you can't even buy 5 loaves of bread for the price of a bag of flour!

Here is what I did (again I used two bowls because we just don't have a bowl big enough for 5 lbs of flour):

2.5 pounds of flour (in each bowl)

3 Tbs yeast (in each bowl)

3 tps salt (in each bowl)

3 cups warm water (in each bowl)

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes (mine needed more than 30 minutes though).

Click on Depression Era Homemade Bread to go to the recipe/directions.

Australia Review

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Yesterday I viewed the movie Australia with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. I loved it...At first I was a little leery of seeing it because I hadn't heard much about the movie other than what my friend from work had told me about it. She's a big Hugh Jackman fan and could even his worst movie sound like the best thing since sliced bread....Does Hugh have a bad movie? I really don't think he does.

Usually, I'm not a real big fan of Nicole Kidman but she was really good in this movie. She was a very believeable as an English aristocrate, Lady Sarah Ashley, who's husband owns a cattle station, Far Away Downs, in the Northern territory of Australia, near Darwin. Well Lady Ashley come's to Australia assuming her husband is up to no good, only meet up with Drover (Hugh Jackman) and learn some shocking things about what has been going on at Far Away Downs. While at Far Away Down's she meets up with an Aboriginal child named Nullah and they all embark on a cattle drive across some of the harshest country in Australia, because the contract to supply the Australian Army with beef is on the line (this movie takes place when the world is on the brink of WWII). Not only do they have to contend with the elements but there are certain people who don't want this team to succeed and will do anything to see that they don't.

Because I don't want to give away too much of the movie I'll stop there.....But I will say that as great as the movie was, there are a few obvious CGI moments, but I didn't let that detract from the rest of the movie. Then there is the fact that Hugh Jackman looks pretty dang good on a horse....almost makes you wish you were the horse.

Here's the movie trailer: