FACS bread recipe

 

FACS (Family and Consumer Science) is the new version of Home Ec.  Due to the pandemic and still not eating together in the classrooms, they have become very creative with their cooking and baking.  Bread was the latest project for 6th grade.  First my daughter needed to fill our a survey about what ingredients we might have at home.  I imagine if we were lacking items, they would be sent home as well.  We have a well stocked pantry and received a gallon sized ziplock bag with the recipe, two small foil pans and a packet of yeast.

The recipe is called Bread in a Bag.  I discouraged my daughter from using the bag for mixing, but it's a creative idea.

Ingredients:

3 cups of flour, we used bread flour

3 TB sugar

1 package of rapid rise yeast (2.25 tsp)

1 cup warm water

3 TB oil, we used olive

1 1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

Combine 1 cup of flour, 2 TB of sugar and the yeast.

Add 1 cup of hot tap water.  Mix.  Allow it to rest for 10 minutes.

Add 1 cup of flour, 3 TB of oil and 1 1/2 tsp salt.  Mix well.

Add last cup of flour and mix well.

Knead dough on lightly floured surface for 5-10 minutes or until smooth.

Divide the dough and place in the 2 greased mini pans. 

Cover with a towel and allow to rest for 30 minutes.

Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes.  Both times, our loaves were done closer to 20 minutes.

The recipe calls for all the mixing to be done in the ziplock bag as squishing.  That would work, but we used a stand mixer with a dough hook.  She did enjoy kneading the bread by hand.

This recipe is quick and very easy.  My daughter was able to make this bread by herself.  I only supervised her taking them out of the oven and checking for doneness.  The mini loaves went pretty fast and it was determined that she would need to repeat this project.  For round 2 I suggested she try braided bread instead.  This recipe worked very well again in a braided form on a flat pan.  Kudos to the FACS teachers for providing a simple, quick, and tasty recipe!

Scrunchies

 

In 2020, we planned to attend a Hawaiian themed gymnastics meet where the girls wear fun leotards, grass skirts, and leis.  I had suggested our level 3 girls all wear the same "fantasy flowers" leotard from Amazon.  It didn't come with a scrunchie.  I found mystique Hawaii blue which matched the flower in the leo nicely and offered to make some matching scrunchies.  The meet was cancelled along with many other things in 2020.  

Fast forward to 2022.  There is another Hawaiian themed meet and because some of the girls still have the fantasy flower leotard and I still have more mystique Hawaii blue fabric, I offered to make some more scrunchies.

What is surprising is that I did very little sewing outside of mask making since that time and no scrunchies at all.  I momentarily forgot what method I used for sewing and what dimensions I had settled on.  Fortunately, I did find a note on the sizing and I had my daughter's scrunchie to measure and verify the construction.

The whole reason I keep a blog is to remind myself of past projects and all the little details I am sure to forget.

Scrunchies

Cut 3.25" x 20"

Cut 8" strip of 3/8" elastic

Sew right sides together the long way leaving the first and last 1"+ unsewn.

Turn right side out.

With the short right sides together, sew the ends together. I saw one blog do this with the scrunchie half way turned out, but I did it all the way turned.

Install elastic and pin to hold.

Sew through elastic.  I use a 3 step zig zag.

Smooth out the side opening and topstitch closed.

Done!  Or in this case, almost done with 21 scrunchies made assembly style.