2025 doing something new / different

My something new is setting up my breadmaker!
Haven't used it for years. I bought bread flour last week and bought dried yeast about 6 months ago, when I thought of making bread again. Unfortunately, the recipe needs skimmed milk powder and that was best by June 2022!!
Worse than that - I started the machine and realised that I'd forgotten to add the yeast to the flour. I've just put it in now - but had to sprinkle it on the ball of dough!! If anything edible come out of the machine in a few hours time it will be a miracle.

The loaf is cooked and I've eaten the first slice. It didn't rise as much as it should have (I blame the cook) but its edible and won't be wasted. I've already measured out the ingredients for the next loaf including yeast!. When I used the breadmaker regularly I used to make up some bags of loafmix in readiness as making up several bags at once takes little longer than doing them individually - and you only have to wash up spoons and scales once!

Ditto, our usual loaf has wheat flakes, sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, poppy and linseeds in it, so I make up several jam jars with the salt, sugar and seed mix. Then it's just measuring out the flour, yeast and water. Mine doesn't require milk powder.