Julia Creates a Disaster For Homemade Bread Day

Happy Homemade Bread Day!  Remember the bread machines that were all the rage a few years ago?  Did you have one?  I did.  And the bread was so delicious. 
Just pour the stuff in the bread maker and turn it on.  Well that lasted about 6 months and then I put the bread maker up on the cabinet with the rest of the unused machines.

Well since it is homemade bread day I decided to pull the ole machine down.  Dust off the dust and make some Hawaiian bread from the mix I had in the cabinet for years.

The box told me to follow the instructions  that came with my machine. But I could not find the instructions for the machine.  Even online it could not tell me how to make the recipe.  I know you have to have the water a certain temp and you add the yeast at a certain time, but I could not remember the details.

Oh yes the yeast.  It expired two years ago!

Uh oh, I had no other, so I just dumped the mix into the container, put it in the bread machine and hoped for the best.

2 and a half hours later, the best was horrible.

It did not even mix up and make a ball of dough.

I later discovered I did not jam the container down in the machine hard enough, so the little mixing arm never moved.

Oh well, I thought,  I will just go to the store and buy some new mix and this time make the best darn tasting bread ever.

I could not find the mix anywhere!  I guess that means the Bread Machine part of our lives is over!

Curse you Dr. Atkins!