Bread is easy; cake is hard. Anything with baking soda/powder is hard, while yeast is so forgiving.
At university, I lived off campus after my first two years, so our house became the gathering spot on Sunday afternoon/evening for many of our friends in the dorm. I would make plain white bread, the very simplest flour/yeast/salt/water fairly frequently as a snack because it was cheap and easy and impressed people. I never bothered putting in eggs or oil or anything else because it was always eaten hot out of the oven (egg and oil keep bread from going stale quite so quickly). A dollar's forth of flour and butter fed twelve to fifteen people no problem.
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Date: 2011-01-01 07:51 pm (UTC)At university, I lived off campus after my first two years, so our house became the gathering spot on Sunday afternoon/evening for many of our friends in the dorm. I would make plain white bread, the very simplest flour/yeast/salt/water fairly frequently as a snack because it was cheap and easy and impressed people. I never bothered putting in eggs or oil or anything else because it was always eaten hot out of the oven (egg and oil keep bread from going stale quite so quickly). A dollar's forth of flour and butter fed twelve to fifteen people no problem.