Oat Bread Cockaigne (pg 601)

Check out that egg wash shine

In Joy, the designation "cockaigne" means that a recipe is one of the authors' very favorites. The word has a connotation of gluttony and lots of interesting history in literature that you should Google or that maybe a smarter member of the family will write about. This poem, The Land of Cokaygne, is a good start though. Here are a few lines and reading the whole thing will make you proud to be an American:

In Cokaygne food and drink are had without worry, trouble or toil.  The meat is choice and the drink is clear at every meal: noon, afternoon and evening.  I swear this land has no peer under heaven or on earth for such joy and bliss. 

There are many sweet sights; it is always day, never night.  There is no quarrelling or strife, no death but ever life.  There is no lack of food or clothing, and no man or woman is ever wroth.³

Alright, alright! On to the bread...

To the list of things that sound like a good idea but are definitely not a good idea, let's add, "starting bread at 6pm." Why do I always forget that bread needs one million hours to rise and rise again and bake and cool? Oh well... we made it

This recipe called for 2 things we didn't have on hand; soy flour and wheat germ but I phoned in a quick mom-consult and was assured that substitutions could be made. So here we have AP flour, wheat flour (extra to make up for the soy), oats (extra to make up for the wheat germ), milk, egg, salt, brown sugar, veggie oil, and yeast

The star of this quarantine? Stand mixer.

That all got mixed for 10 minutes of dough hook kneading, had a 1 hour rise, a rise in the pan and a bake with an egg brushed on top. I was in bed by 9 

Em: ⭐⭐⭐⭐  because they like "a less dense bread" (no offense taken)

Jess: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ because it tastes like bran flakes in a good way and was really easy to make but maybe wasn't quite "cockaigne." Should have instantcarted soy flour...