Milk Bread

Thinking Too Much

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The bright red from the inside cover. It's the last thing I look at before sleep. Could it be? Pantone 032? And, the cover. Reflex Blue and Pantone 032? Perhaps.

I think too much.

But then I thought about The Joy of Cooking. Could it be? Reflex Blue and Pantone 032? Again?

Stop thinking about Pantones, I thought.

I thought about how those two colors, specifically, were very popular in the early days of the 21st century. In my job.

I think too much.

The print coordinator always needed, rather, the printer always needed a few extra days for Reflex Blue. It takes longer to dry for some reason.

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Milk Bread

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I thought about the milk bread. How I had sliced it and placed it into the freezer for future use. French toast use.

It tastes like a biscuit, he had said.

It does. It's biscuit bread, I had said.

Milk bread is biscuit bread. It will make for a very nice french toast. We agreed.

Roberto remarked on the crust. How it wasn't as dark as the cinnamon loaf.

I explained that milk bread (biscuit bread), required a butter wash. I had used an egg wash on the cinnamon bread. It was beautiful. Glossy and deep brown.

It's the same recipe used for the cinnamon bread from The Joy of Cooking, I had explained.

He looked vexed.

They do that. For the cinnamon bread recipe, they'll say 'See Milk Bread Recipe' and then they'll modify it with additional instructions for cinnamon bread, I had explained further.

He looked satisfied with the explanation, enlightened.

You can't go wrong with Joy, I said.

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Procrastination

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So, did you mail off the Christmas cards yet? He asked.

Not yet...