When I first started making the bread recipe that came down from my grandmother, I made it true to the recipe. Back in the 1970s I had nothing to facilitate bread making but my two hands. I made bread that way for many long years, until I got my Kitchen Aid. I avoided getting a Kitchen Aid mixer for a long time, feeling I didn need it, but once I got one, it changed my life, and the way I made bread. At the time I got the Kitchen Aid, I had reduced the size of the bread recipe to make only the 2 loaves that a bread making machine could handle. The bread machine was literally used to its death, and when the Kitchen Aid mixer came into my life, it was a love affair. I started making the whole bread recipe with the original ingredients, but some things just seemed to lend themselves to...