Are you familiar with Friendship Bread? It's bread dough that you mess with every few days, then on day 10 (the last day) you separate it into 4 equal portions; bake one, give away 2 portions to friends, and keep one to start the process all over again.
Against my better judgment, I decided to bring some of this dough with me in my duffle bag to Guatemala. I really like this particular recipe and I figured it was a cheap way for us missionaries to have something warm, sweet, and homemade (which is rare). I put the freezer Ziploc of dough in a 2nd Ziploc bag. Then I put it in a Tupperware container that had a very tight lid. Then I put a wide rubber band over the lid, just to make sure it stayed in place.
My conclusion is that yeast under pressure is stronger than 2 Ziplocs, Tupperware and a rubber band because when I opened my suitcase I found bread goo throughout the suitcase. Yuck! Luckily it only made a mess and didn't ruin anything. Ginny suggested I wash out my duffle bag with a water hose. We had a water hose the width of my finger at the house that didn't fit very well onto the outside spigot. When I put my thumb on the end of the hose in order to get a least a little bit of pressure, it made the water spray like crazy at the spigot connection, thus getting me more wet then my duffle bag.
Oh well, when all was said and done, I and the duffle bag were fairly clean and I left the duffle in the sun to dry. And although I was only left with about 1/5th of the dough, I've since been trying to baby the dough and I'm gonna try to bake the bread tomorrow. I figure I don't have anything to loose, right?
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