Bread anyone?

I haven't made bread in years, but someone kept talking to me about making bread and I thought what the heck. It's the holiday season. And I like to know exactly what's in the food I eat. So I bought some yeast. The last yeast I bought ended up expiring before I got around to using it. So I felt a little pressure to actually use this yeast.

I went a few go arounds searching pinterest for a recipe that looked easy enough and included ingredients I actually had in my cabinets.

Here's the link: Bread recipe
I felt like I used the entire container of flour as I set it aside in a bowl. Then I took a look at my yeast and to my amazement, it said I didn't have to mix it with warm water to work. What is that? From the old days I remembered I had to have specifically heated water and a certain amount of sugar before that yeast would even consider working. So I was a little skeptical. I put the warm water and sugar in a big bowl and added the yeast. No bubbles. Nothing, just dissolved yeast. But I kept on going. In fact, for the first time I attached the dough beaters to my hand held mixer.

I'll have to admit I enjoyed the heck of out kneading. The sticking, not so much, but watching that dough smooth out was very satisfying. I decided to put the glass bowl in the oven to rise. What I tried was preheating it to 100 degrees then turning it off. To my surprise, an hour later that dough was trying to escape that bowl. The yeast actually worked!

As I got out my bread pans, I was faced with a dilemma. One of my metal pans was rusted. And it wasn't just a little bit. It was a lot of rust that I couldn't remove. Dang, in the trash it went. I went back to the cabinet and found a glass bread pan.  I knew glass was going to cook different than metal, but I wasn't sure how much.

The loaf on the left was baked in the metal pan and as you can see, the one on the right is still in the glass pan. What you can't see is how rough it was to get that one out of the pan. Yes, the glass pan bread rose a lot, but getting it out of the pan was a chore. In fact, the top separated from the bottom leaving me two halves of one loaf. I'm still not even sure why.  By the way, they both tasted great. The metal pan loaf sliced great and made some awesome sandwiches. If you have any suggestions for me, please comment below. And don't tell me to buy another metal pan. I can figure that one out myself.
Now back to my tea.