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I don't think there's anything quite like the smell of freshly baked bread in the morning.

I remember when I was quite young and my dad brought home a bread making machine, which was quite fancy. And it was short-lived in our household. We didn't use it for more

than, I would probably say, a few months in the house, but those days when we did and waking up to a fresh loaf of bread and smelling that in the morning, getting

really excited to tear into that soft loaf was a beautiful memory. Here's a beautiful memory.

And I think formed part of my interest in baking

in later life. Funnily enough, to this day, and then even still, I'm not entirely sure how it is

that a bread maker works exactly, how it makes bread in such a light and fluffy manner.

You know, it's not stodgy in any way, but of course, if you've made bread before, as you

want certainly have, perhaps at least once in your life, then you'll know that there's this sort of process to it.

You know, you need to let the dough rise for an amount of time,

and then you'll, as they say, punch it down,

let it rise once again.

On the counter, just under a cloth a cloth maybe or some cling film and then you

would undergo the process of baking only once it has risen to a certain degree but with a bread machine

you simply put all of the ingredients in and then some hours later it would just produce a

perfectly lovely loaf of bread and like i say i'm really unsure how it is that it's capable of doing that

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