White Mountain Bread

In my quest to bake most of the recipes from the book The Bread Bible, I started with the first recipe, White Mountain Bread. I used all white flour from King Arthur. The bread was ok. The dough was fine to work with:

Smooth and absorbed the flour well. I actually used a cup of water rather than 3/4ths of a cup. I also use about a 1/4th a cup of buttermilk since I ran out of whole milk. I made my usual two loaves:

Which resulted in these, which my wife and daughter started eating:

while my other daughter and I were out sailing on the sunfish.

(Actually my daughter and her cousin, but my very few, if any readers, will get the idea)

The texture of the bread was fine. It made great toast with some jam and was good with sandwiches, but I wouldn't make it again. The buttermilk honey from the same book is much better and takes the the same amount of time and materials.

Cinnamon Chip Scones

I have been meaning to make cinnamon chip scones for a while and I finally got some cinnamon chips from Wilbur Chocolate store in Lititz, PA. It was after we went to Hershey Park but before we went to Dorney Park in Allentown, PA. We liked Dorney Park better - smaller crowds which meant less people and some very cool steel roller coasters, including Steel Force which had a 205 foot drop and Hydra which started with a slow corkscrew roll at the very beginning. Even though I knew it was coming, I was still pretty surprised.
Anyway, the scones were okay. I didn't incorporate the butter enough into the flour so they were a little drier than I like and the dough was fairly dense. They should have been lighter, flakier. The flavor was okay. I also rolled the dough out to about 1/2 inch thick like the cookbook said to. I used the King Arthur recipe. My wife later made chocolate chip scones as well as cinnamon chip scones. She used a food processor to mix the butter and flour and rather than rolling them out, she just made round balls of dough. Hers definitely tasted better.
I have pictures somewhere on my hard drive, but I can't find them. Will try them again next week and see how it goes.