Going Back in Time to My Very First Bread...

I have never ever baked a bread in my life until approximately 6 weeks ago. It was a nice day in the fall after a weekend of apple picking... I had a huge bag fresh off the farm. The distress call for new apple recipes over Facebook had proven to be useless as the best recipe consisted of: wash, dry, then eat the apple. Granted that was how some of the apples met their ends, I was still on the prowl for apple recipes on the internet and in my cookbook library. I settled on a few recipes to start, one of which was a delicious looking sweet apple bread recipe. The original recipe calls for a bread machine. I didn't have one so I did it the old fashion way following instructions from James Peterson's "Baking". I was (and still am) not sure how correct my methods were and the bread didn't rise as much as I'd hoped. All in all, it was still delicious. One apple down and another 50 to go!