Thanks for your response, Roy. Emma's my niece, not my daughter, but I
just translated those sentences to match. ;-)

This first bread baking will be with Emma assisting and observing. More
active participation will be as she wants. I'd given her the options of
cookies or bread for this weekend, and she said bread because she'd made
cookies before. "I've never baked bread before," she warned, and I
assured her that I wasn't relying on her for expertise, I was simply
offering a chance for her to learn how to do it. That met with firm
approval. I generally offer and accept what she chooses. I have some
really good goop for burns, just in case. Her mother is the
over-protective one. I'm more of the "the kid's going to have to learn,
and I'll inform her and then be there for her when it hurts" school.

The recipe matters because I NEED A RECIPE, but I guess I'll go to Joy
of Cooking. ;-)

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

In article >,
"Rina" > wrote:

> I have a nine year old grand child... He enjoys every loaf of bread that I
> make and He enjoys rolling pizza dough and making pizza, I doubt if his
> concentration would last through the lengthy process of hand kneading the
> dough. Measuring the ingredients and putting them into the bread machine,
> standing on a stool with a flashlight peeking into the little window to see
> what's happening all hold his interest for about 10 minutes. We have had fun
> making monkey bread, He was able to get his hands on the dough , make the
> little balls and roll them in cinnamon sugar. I bake the rolled cinnamon
> sugar balls in a bunt pan, it's a great treat for nine year olds! I told him
> that some day I'd let him shape a monster ( alligator or something similar)
> out of bread dough and I'd bake monster bread for him. This is probably
> going to be an April vacation project. that interested him!

We've already touched a bit on the biology of bread making, and I want
to go into it more, about yeast and gluten and so on. She won't have to
knead it except for a bit if she wants and some at beginning and end to
get a feel for the difference. Emma's got a very curious mind about
many things, including science and nature. Then she'll be off curled up
with a book during much of my kneading, I expect, unless she wants to
stay with me and chat about which cats came to visit her over night.

> Not to be sexist, but he is a boy and enjoys eating the goodies more than
> making them!

Emma's already made pie crust with her Dad (they made the Thanksgiving
pumpkin pie this past year), and she's interested in learning. Eating,
too, but learning how to do something her Aunt Scilly does is a draw for
her. She's eaten my bread at holidays and likes it.

> Have fun with your niece!

I expect we'll have a ball. We generally do. Backgammon is also on the
agenda. I don't think she's old enough yet to handle cribbage.

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

"Priscilla H. Ballou" > wrote in message
...
> I've become quite an accomplished bread baker with my bread machine
> doing the mixing and most of the kneading for me. I use dough cycle
> only, though, forming the loaves and baking them normally.
>
> This weekend my nine year-old niece will be visiting me, and the
> adventure for this visit is bread baking. (While it's rising we'll
> check out what's coming up in my yard.) We will bake her first bread,
> and she will take it home with her. It's been ages since I mixed and
> kneaded bread instead of letting the machine do it. I do have a Kitchen
> Aid with a dough hook, and I want to use that for the mixing, so as not
> to introduce the process as one that is *too* wearying.
>
> So, suggestions for a first bread for Emma? I have WW flour on hand as
> well as lots of other stuff and will be picking up white bread flour on
> the way home. Of course I have yeast, vital wheat gluten, honey, sugar,
> butter, eggs, all that other stuff. Even some buttermilk, IIRC. I'm
> thinking white bread for her first, although I bake exclusively WW and
> other whole grain breads for myself these days.
>
> Recipe ideas?

I would keep it simple. Use the "basic white bread" recipe that is in the
cookbook supply with the mixer. WW bread is more problematic to make and I
don't think small children like WW bread as well as plain white bread.

I have a nine year old grand child... He enjoys every loaf of bread that I
make and He enjoys rolling pizza dough and making pizza, I doubt if his
concentration would last through the lengthy process of hand kneading the
dough. Measuring the ingredients and putting them into the bread machine,
standing on a stool with a flashlight peeking into the little window to see
what's happening all hold his interest for about 10 minutes. We have had fun
making monkey bread, He was able to get his hands on the dough , make the
little balls and roll them in cinnamon sugar. I bake the rolled cinnamon
sugar balls in a bunt pan, it's a great treat for nine year olds! I told him
that some day I'd let him shape a monster ( alligator or something similar)
out of bread dough and I'd bake monster bread for him. This is probably
going to be an April vacation project. that interested him!

Not to be sexist, but he is a boy and enjoys eating the goodies more than
making them!

Have fun with your niece!

Rina



"Priscilla H. Ballou" > wrote in message
...

> This weekend my nine year-old niece will be visiting me, and the
> adventure for this visit is bread baking. (While it's rising we'll
> check out what's coming up in my yard.) We will bake her first bread,
> and she will take it home with her. It's been ages since I mixed and
> kneaded bread instead of letting the machine do it. I do have a Kitchen
> Aid with a dough hook, and I want to use that for the mixing, so as not
> to introduce the process as one that is *too* wearying.
>
> So, suggestions for a first bread for Emma?