World's worst bread recipe

From the land of good idea, bad idea:

We like making bread, so I was intrigued when my wife brought home a ziploc baggie with a yeast colony inside. It is kinda like keeping sea monkeys with really bad gas. Although you can't see them, they make a lot of bubbles. I imagine it being something like the Blazing Saddles scene with cowboys eating beans around the camp fire. Only smaller.

Attached to the baggie was a recipe. The zerox showed signs of being a hundreth generation copy of instructions for yeast care and the making of "Amish bread". In part, the recipe asks you to do several silly things. The recipe calls for instant pudding as well as baking soda. Further, there is absolutely no rise time given for the dough. Good grief. Somebody call Shirley Corriher!

Why would you use an alternative leavener in a yeast bread? Probably to compensate for a recipe that has you add yeast to a dough mixture and immediately flop it into a hot oven. I can't even begin to fathom the vanilla pudding. In all fairness, we tried the recipe as is, and it isn't a bad quick bread recipe. I still shudder at the methodology.

Work is under way at the J household to formulate a better recipe that truly utilizes the yeast and also makes a damn fine loaf. Stay tuned to this blog for the results!