LOL, now I've been making bread for ages with a bread machine. I
rarely screw up but I did yesterday.

I was making my regular buttermilk bread to turn into rolls for the
next few days for us all (dough mode). I got distracted helping
Charlotte find some spices (she wanted this one in a sort of pizza
spice set).

I forgot to add the yeast. 1.5 hours later the machine beeped and there
was this 1/2 normal sized ball (maybe 1/3 sized).

oops. So I set up another batch of french bread as we contemplated
this. (Freench later came out perfect as normal).

We tested the dough and it was well developed, just not puffy. I
decided to try using it for something else in an experiment. I pulled
out some 10 home made sausage patties (I can later post the seasoning i
use on ground pork). Cooked the pork bits and set them aside.

We worked this dough very easily by hand to small flat bits and wrapped
cooked sausage in it. Some sausage patties were bigger so we made a
sort of bed and put a top sheet over it. Edges crimped, this baked to
perfection in 18 mins or so in a preheated 400F oven.

Nifty! I think I will deliberately do this again with some other
things like those double sausage-looking bits that are somewhat like a
kielbasa.

Dough recipe:

1 1/3 c butter milk
1/3 c water plus 1 tb
4 c flour, fluffed into cup with a spoon
4 ts sugar
1 ts salt

We added 1 tb each: Oregano, basil, sage

Carol
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