Adventures in Cooking

I had decided to make my family something special to thank them, and I thought that Saffron bread would be perfect, since saffron is cheaper here and it's so very Swedish. So I went out to get the ingredients. It's so fun going to a little shop and asking for a half kilo of sugar and flour and the thing that makes bread get bigger (I had no idea how to say yeast). Then I went and watched someone measure out a gram of saffron for me. It was so much fun... I got very confused when milk seemed to be 85 dirhams, and then I realized that it was 8.50 and I felt very silly. The most expensive was the 500 grams of butter, which ended up being a little over 3 dollars. For the sugar, flour and salt, I payed all of 85 cents. It was amazing.
So I go home to cook, and my mom watches and I teach her to make some cool designs. I'm a little worried, since the dough hadn't risen all that much, but I hope that it had risen enough. It didn't. It seems that I accidently killed the yeast because I was working with fresh yeast and used way to warm milk. It was really sad because when I cooked them, they ended up not cooking on the inside and it was awful and didn't taste good and overall no good. Now I know how important yeast is...