Jan’s instructions for making bread in a slow cooker
Ingredients
- 1½ cups of warm water
- 1 dessertspoon of dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 3 cups of bread flour
Instructions
- Sprinkle yeast on top of warm water and leave for 10 minutes
- Add flour and salt to yeast mix and stir
- Cover and let rise for 30 minutes
- Line slow cooker with baking paper
- Shape dough and place in slow cooker (cooker must be OFF)
- Let rise 30-60 minutes
- Turn on slow cooker to high and place paper towels under the lid to collect moisture
- Bake 1½ – 2 hours
- Remove from slow cooker and let cool before slicing.
To save time make the dough the night before.
Blog reader Ian asked about the overall layout of Waiouru. He rightly observed there were many individual photos but nothing recent showing the complete layout. Because a narrowboat is long and narrow it’s actually rather difficult to provide a scale drawing of Waiouru’s floor plan on a blog page . However, I’ve been able to produce a “not to scale” plan which makes Waiouru short and fat…. Kind of like me ! LOL
It might be hard to read the text so I’ll identify the compartments from left to right.
- Back cabin – 6’3”
- Galley – 6’
- Saloon – 14’6”
- Bathroom – 5’6”
- Bedroom – 8’9”
I started producing the drawing three years ago using Excel. The base was a jpg file of the outline of another narrowboat. This was inserted into the Excel spreadsheet. The gridlines in the spreadsheet were then sized to make them square and the boat outline was “stretch” so it was 58’6” long and 6’10” wide. Now I had the outline of Waiouru and I could “make” the compartments and major items to scale using the shapes function in Excel. Later I produced copies of the basic layout for the specialists worksheets (lighting, heating, 240v, etc). Using the shapes in Excel enabled me to easily move them around and resize them. After we had finalised the layout I used Google Sketchup to produce 3D drawings of Waiouru. These enabled us to take a 360 degree virtual tour through her to confirm we were happy with the layout.
6 comments :
Many thanks for sharing the instructions for the crock pot bread. We'll put yeast on the shopping list and let you know how we get on with our baking.
Hi Tom & Jan,
Blimey, I hope I didn't put you to any bother producing that squat boat diagram! I really didn't express myself very clearly in my previous post. I had observed what looked like a plan of the boat already stuck to the wall of Waiouru, and wondered if a full photo of that were possible! Soz. :-)
Anyway, your diagram fits the bill perfectly, so thank you! That's a very well considered layout. Since I've been trying to suss out the ideal boat layout for me, I've had a few changes of heart. Walk-through bathrooms and pull-out cross beds being two of the features I now favour that are also in yours. I also think a more centrally situated solid fuel stove with back boiler for the rads would be advantageous.
This diagram now gives me a far better mental image to work with when looking at your future photos, so thanks again!
Regards,
Ian
Hi Ian,
The disadvantage of having the saloon in the middle is you either have to walk through the galley or the bedroom to get to it. However it does mean the diesel heating stove is in the middle of the boat. If I were to re-plan the layout I might place the galley against the bathroom. You would then enter the saloon via the back cabin.
Just about everything in a narrowboat layout is a compromise :-)
Hi Jenny & Robin,
Jan will be interested to hear how you get on with the bread making. Remember it will probably look pale on top and "Crusty Brown" on the bottom!
Regards
Tom
Hi Tom & Jan,
RE: moving the galley
Ah, but as it is, when cruising, Jan can be bringing you freshly made food/refreshments straight from the galley!
Don't tell me you weren't thinking of that when designing Waiouru! ;-)
Regards,
Ian
Ian,
You know me too well! :-)
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