thank you Lord! Today was my first day of making bread for our farmers market. My family and I see this as an opportunity to open our own business (a cafe or bakery and my mom has the vision of selling the bosches and mills and doing live demos)
The goal toady was to start making the bread at 8am. Now I really did want to actually be making the bread at 8 which would have meant I needed to get up by 7am if I wanted to have some bible time (which is much needed daily and so how much more when making over 50 loaves of bread to sell). Well that plan didn't work out and I ended up getting up a little after 7:30. By 8:15 I'm in the kitchen ready to start. My mom had said the night before she and Jerry were gonna get the kitchen all set up for me... well that didn't happen. At 8:15 jerry was still vacuuming the kitchen (and he's very detailed), and my mom is making protein drinks for breakfast. I reminded my mom about our agreement she said she knew I wasn't gonna be ready, a lot of confidence she has in me huh? I could of let myself get stressed at this point ( because I'm the type that likes to work with a schedule), but thank The Lord I did my Bible cause I was still feeling at peace!
In reality the braed making process started at 9 (may I remind you that's grinding the grain and all). I have ready 2 mills and 2 bosches and I'm ready to go!
Side note: I originally had only 1 bosch and one mill, and we all knew that was gonna be hard if we needed to make all that bread. Also we are all in a financial pinch and can't just buy a new Bosch and Mill. My mom was prompted to call a friend who had both items and she wasn't using them like she thought she would and she had bought them from a lady who sold them to to her at a good price, Now our friend was willing to sell them to us at that same good price (since she wasn't using them)
So I start the first 2 batches. #1 the bosch we got from our friend is a lot louder than the one I own and it doesn't seem to mix as fast as mine "oh well" I think) #2 the mill is so flippin loud, I mean it sound like David (my husband) has the back pack blower for the yard on in the house. It's alright though... we have to make do with what we have. So I adding in about the 13th to 14th cup of flower in the other boch and it just DIES. All I can think is " are you serious" Oh well we have to still keep going, so now where pulling out the dough from the bowl and my mom starts to knead it by hand, just until the other batch is finished and we can knead it in that machine. The point is I am back down to 1 machine. My mom is kinda frantic and thinks we need to go out and by a machine TODAY, that's 400.00 we don't have...and if it wasn't for David we would have bought it. Thank God for David... he said NO... and with reason, we don't have the money.
Somehow I'm still able to manage to stay calm... I'm telling you it's that quiet time I had with the LORD!
Growing up I did what my mom wanted in the kitchen and now the roles are reversed, now she the prep cook, and she's real good! She's my second pair of hands. She calls herself the "My brown Slave".
So from exactly 9-12pm we came up with 30 loaves of bread! we're doing 10 loaves an hour..
Oh I forgot to mention... I invited 2 friends over for lunch, they both ordered bread so I thought I'd make them a sandwich when they came by, that's why I had to stop at 12pm, company is coming at 1:30. So now in the midst of all this bread making I need to stop and put some sandwiches together and clean up a bit... I don't want to scare them with the mess. It would also give me a little break from the bread making. I'm suppose to have two friends stop by at the same time (to me it's like killing two birds with one stone), but like a lot of other things that didn't work out. One friend did come by a little after 1:30 (and she ended up buying 2 breads vs. the 1 she ordered, so that's cool). And now I'm still expecting my other friend and I don't really want to start making the bread cause it's kinda hard to just stop and entertain... you know what I mean. I'm hoping shell come before 4, I plan to get started again at 4. I have 20 or more loaves to make (regular and raisin) and batches of cinnamon rolls, besides that I also need to work on our display for the farmers market, and I really want to take time and figure out how much money we've put in and how much we'll be getting if all sells. I know we'll be putting more money in, in the beginning.
I think this farmers market last till Oct, by them I'm gonna be ready to go on that cruise we talk about often, even though we can't afford it but maybe the bread business will do so well we won't have to feel to guilty, financially.
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