Pinterest Review: Grandma's Country White Bread

Happy Saturday, my friends! We're all sick here... again! I was hoping the sickness would go away with January, but no.  The husband is down for the count.

Meanwhile, I've been a busy lady and have a pin review for you today!  I'm reviewing the recipe for "Grandma's Country White Bread" found HERE and seen all over Pinterest.

The finished product...

Folks, this bread is delicious.  Make it!  I made it Thursday night while my parents-in-law were here and my Mother-in-law and I each enjoyed a nice, warm, fresh-from-the-oven slice with butter. Oh my lanta.  GOOD.  I let the bread sit out awhile and cut a warm loaf (the recipe yields two loaves).  The cuts were weird and crazy and I could only get 8 (HUGE) slices out of the thing which created 4 point* slices.  Ew.  Not good when I'm used to spending 1 per slice!

I covered the other loaf with a towel and left it out all night.  In the morning I was able to slice it to 16 slices and they are 3 points* each, but 5 points* for 2.  Not great at all, but the bread is still pretty hearty and thick (I wish I could have sliced more slices, but it's tricky and I'm learning!).

Oh, hey cute bread making helper!  :)

A few tips...

-- Let the loaves sit out overnight to cool before slicing or you'll have funky slices.  This is seriously the most important tip of all.

-- When the bread rises in the bread pans, it'll take another hour so account for that (she didn't say how long this would take in her recipe).

-- For me, the baking took 30 minutes, not 25.  It probably could have gone another 3-5 minutes, but I was afraid of burnt/brown bread.

-- Next time, I'll be doing wheat.  Unbeknownst to me after 4.5 years of marriage, my husband loathes white bread so he didn't really enjoy it simply for that fact.

And one point...

Where can you buy cheap flour?  I bought a bag at Target of the recommended flour and it was $2.50.  It took me half the bag of flour (7 cups) to make the bread making the two loaves flour cost $1.25 IE $.75 per loaf.  This is still GREAT savings, but not $.39 per loaf with all ingredients factored in.  So if you know where to buy cheap flour, please tell me!

All in all, I LOVED this bread and even if it's still $1 a loaf, I'm still saving my family money, saving us from preservatives and chemicals, and it feels really stinking good to slice up some bread and say, "Here, I MADE this for YOU.  Enjoy your toast!"

*All Weight Watcher points configured by plugging the ingredients into the recipe builder on my etools on weightwatchers.com.