Weekend baking and colonial times

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Cookies!

Bread Machine Bread

A weekend of baking-Laura came over and we made several batches of cookies and I made coffee cake and bread as well.  My machine makes a very tiny loaf of bread though, it was gone in a heartbeat!  Doing a lot of baking is much more fun with someone else to share the work and talk with while it's being done.  I can see the wisdom in the days when men would get together to raise a barn, or women would get together for a quilting or sewing bee.  Work is done much quicker and is less "work" when you have someone to share it with.