Stupid flu! and breadmaker
Jan. 16th, 2009 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhialtoI've been working for a week after my previous round of flu of a week that started new year's eve, and *again* I'm feeling not all that well. Or maybe it is still that way. All week for instance I have had painful neck, shoulder and arm muscles on my left side. It even feels like I have no strength in my left hand and if I pick something up, I'm afraid to drop it.
Today, feeling particularly weak and headachy, I took my temperature again. 37,4 °C in the morning wasn't too bad, and I took an ibuprofen. But now in the evening it was 37,9 °C and that is definitely a bit too high.
*Sigh*
On the fun side, when getting groceries today (after which I felt completely knackered) I tried out the breadmaker I bought a week ago (with an eye on making gluten-free bread for Isabelle when she's here). Not having kitchen scales (or any scales at all) I went for the receipe that called for 500 g of wheat/bread mix, that being easy to construct from the 1 kg I bought. The breadmaker has a window on top so you can see how it progesses, which is very interesting.
For some reason, this breadmaker wants the liquids in first and the dry components on top, while some others (such as Isabelle's) want it the other way around. I wonder why. Also, Isabelle's breadmaker wants the ingredients reversed again for gluten free bread while mine doesn't. Again, I wonder why.
Perhaps I should have baked the bread during the night so I could eat it warm tomorrow morning, but then again I could not have overseen the process. The bread feels quite soft, and in fact was rising a bit too much and squished into the window on top. Fortunately it shrank a bit by itself, and no doubt was helped by me opening the top a bit to detach the dough.
I look forward to trying my first bread for breakfast tomorrow!
Today, feeling particularly weak and headachy, I took my temperature again. 37,4 °C in the morning wasn't too bad, and I took an ibuprofen. But now in the evening it was 37,9 °C and that is definitely a bit too high.
*Sigh*
On the fun side, when getting groceries today (after which I felt completely knackered) I tried out the breadmaker I bought a week ago (with an eye on making gluten-free bread for Isabelle when she's here). Not having kitchen scales (or any scales at all) I went for the receipe that called for 500 g of wheat/bread mix, that being easy to construct from the 1 kg I bought. The breadmaker has a window on top so you can see how it progesses, which is very interesting.
For some reason, this breadmaker wants the liquids in first and the dry components on top, while some others (such as Isabelle's) want it the other way around. I wonder why. Also, Isabelle's breadmaker wants the ingredients reversed again for gluten free bread while mine doesn't. Again, I wonder why.
Perhaps I should have baked the bread during the night so I could eat it warm tomorrow morning, but then again I could not have overseen the process. The bread feels quite soft, and in fact was rising a bit too much and squished into the window on top. Fortunately it shrank a bit by itself, and no doubt was helped by me opening the top a bit to detach the dough.
I look forward to trying my first bread for breakfast tomorrow!
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Date: 2009-01-17 08:26 am (UTC)I have a recipe for gluten free bread that I can give you if you want to have more of them (variety is a Good Thing).
And I hope your flu clears the deck soon!