Artisan Bread Bakers

[Pleater]

Ah, this is one I'll have to stay well clear of - I used to make bread, and see it vanish away in no time at all - with the children at home - but these days I just can't eat concentrated carbohydrates.

Well, I could eat them, but have to be prepared to put on weight, which I am not.

Perhaps if I had to go out into the woods, drag back the firewood, chop it, stack it, then plough the land, sow it, reap the harvest, carry it home on my back then thresh and grind the corn, etc etc, then perhaps I would be able to eat bread again.

Sigh.

It would be worth it though.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Old Hippie]

Perhaps if I had to go out into the woods, drag back the firewood, chop it, stack it, then plough the land, sow it, reap the harvest, carry it home on my back then thresh and grind the corn, etc etc, then perhaps I would be able to eat bread again.

We can help you out with that. Or rather, you can help us out.

I have long-term plans to build an outdoor cooking pavilion which would include gas hookups for the burners we use canning, a gas-fired wok stand, and a Mongolian grill or maybe just a flat grill. I'd also like a central raised hearth for Dutch Ovens, and a nice brick oven.

Probably wouldn't be a wood-fired brick oven, though. All I get around here is pine.

In the summer I try to keep as much heat as possible outside where it belongs. We have the odd gathering -- sometimes quite odd -- that requires pancakes, eggs and hashbrowns for a crowd.

[Smayniac]

Ah, this is one I'll have to stay well clear of - I used to make bread, and see it vanish away in no time at all - with the children at home - snip -
Perhaps if I had to go out into the woods, drag back the firewood, chop it, stack it, then plough the land, sow it, reap the harvest, carry it home on my back then thresh and grind the corn, etc etc, then perhaps I would be able to eat bread again.

Scooby and I have a film by a local filmmaker who sewed his yard with wheat and made bread from it called "Bread Comes to Life". We actually went to the premier over in Santa Cruz some years back. I wish now I'd bought the DVD, I didn't own a player then, so my copy is on VHS.

I own and use the much despised machine, I hope you purists will allow me in. I do bake biscuits from scratch on a regular basis, two or three times a week when Scooby is here; does that make up for my yeast bread defficiancy?

OTOH, I do tend to get experimental with ingredients on occasion when I find myself without one thing or another.

Bob