Bread Head.
E and I can’t seem to come to an agreement when it comes to bread. Or, rather, when it comes to brown or whole wheat bread. We are in agreement that white baguette bread is all that is right and delicious, but we generally save it for a treat, otherwise we eat nothing but that until it’s gone. So not healthy. But for day-to-day bread, I don’t like the malty-tasting stuff he likes and he’s not wild about the seed-and-grain stuff I like.
So I am going to give making my own bread a shot. I have some leaven coming to me, and I’ve been reading up on what to do with it, how to treat it, etc., and am hoping for the best. Having seen photographic evidence of the bread that this wonder leaven produces, I have high hopes.
The guy who is sending the leaven has a mission: He wants to get at least 100 people making their own bread as a healthier alternative to the stuff we buy in the stores.
So here’s my PSA: When I get my leaven, I’m happy to pass some of it along, to whomever wants it. I think this is a worthwhile endeavor.
Here’s his site: http://doughblogs.wordpress.com/
Some Stuff | Liz February 22, 2009
By rachel, February 22, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
He’s sending it all the way from England?? Will it survive the trip? Does Canada have some special trade agreement that permits this kind of live-culture importation? I guess we let the QUEEN come over whenever she wants…
By Beth, February 22, 2009 @ 7:56 pm
I would love to make some bread too.
By Liz, February 22, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Rachel, he’s sending a dehydrated form and I am rehydrating it over here. I’m hoping it works.
Beth, I will give you some for sure if you like.
By Deb, February 23, 2009 @ 12:50 am
Please add me to the list. I like to eat bread, I like to make it, I like looking at it. I would wear bread pants if I wasn’t worried about the possible yeast infection.
By Liz, February 23, 2009 @ 9:33 am
Hmm. Wearable bread. That might be our million dollars. Added, Deb.
By rachel, February 23, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Well, it works on the Queen.
(they’re never going to let me become a citizen now, are they…)
I’d like some starter too, AFTER you’ve made a loaf or two and can verify that it’s not difficult, the bread tastes good, and you have not become the psychic slave of the bubbling creature in the jar.
By stephanie, February 23, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
I will await your review of the bread and then perhaps get in on this action.
By Liz, February 23, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
Okay, Rachel, you’re on. Stephanie, I’ll have to get the particulars of the dehydrating process for you, but I don’t think that’ll be a problem. I just don’t want either one of us to get in trouble for sending live yeast around North America.