Today, I made the English Muffin Toasting Bread. It turned out exactly as pictured and was as easy as the recipe stated. Your instructions are easy enough for a 10-year-old to follow! I have to say that I am a bread 'snob'. I have baked homemade bread for over 30 years and have never bought a bread machine. While they are nice for some people, I felt that hand kneaded and baked in your oven was better and everyone that ate my bread agreed. However, I haven't made bread regularly for years. I save it for a special treat at the holidays because kneading dough for several loaves by hand gets quite difficult as you get older. Recenty, I started experimenting with some of your breads because I have always used KAF flour (at least I was smart enough to use the best!) and finally looked at your recipes. When I realized that I could make bread by using my Kitchen Aid I decided to try some of your recipes. I first made the white sandwich bread and then the whole wheat sandwich bread followed by the sandwich rye bread. Each recipe was so easy and produced perfect loaves. Now, after making the best English Muffin loaf I have ever made, I am going to just start at one end of the bread recipes and work my way through each and every one that looks good to me. I may even make some sourdough starter and make sourdough breads again! Thank you all so much for not only providing the best quality of ingredients for home bakers, but for giving us recipes with detailed instructions along with an outlet when we need help. Your blogs are marvelous and a great addition to your website. I only wish I had looked at the recipes and blogs sooner! Barbara, thanks for sharing your story here. Did you know King Arthur is the biggest educator of home bakers in the world? And I always like to think that education happens in so many ways - via classes, sure, but also through our cookbooks, and now through our online recipes and blog. I'm SO glad you're having good success with your breads; yes, a KitchenAid does a fine job of kneading and is a godsend for older hands. My mom is 83 and she loves making dough in her bread machine (she doesn't have a KitchenAid); it's allowed her to keep making bread and cinnamon buns way past when she probably would have. So keep that KitchenAid humming - and good luck with the rest of those bread recipes; we surely have a lot of them for you to try! Thanks again for connecting here - PJH

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