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Good, cheap, homemade bread sometimes goes stale quicker than storebought bread because it’s made without preservatives. I usually make bread about once a week – I keep half of it out for immediate use, and I freeze half of it to use halfway through the week after I eat the first half. That way I have [...] Sweet and moist, almost more like a dessert cake than bread you are used to, bread doesn’t get any simpler than this. Essene bread is made from sprouted grain, and nothing else. No flour, no salt, no sugar, no yeast. Just grain and the water the grain absorbed while it was sprouting. Verily, Wikipedia sayeth, “Of [...] Harold McGee, writing in the Curious Cook column at nytimes.com today, wonders “…what else might I have done with all those hours” spent kneading bread for 15 or 20 minutes every time he made bread, accumulated over years. “No-knead” breads have been kind of popular in the hip-food press recently, and for weeks I’ve been asking [...] Yesterday I made my bread just like I described in yesterday’s post, but instead of baking it in one big loaf, I cut the dough into eight pieces, and lovingly shaped each piece into a little bun, smeared them just slightly with butter, and put them on a lightly buttered cookie sheet. I put them [...] Make Bread. It’s good for your bank account, and it’s good for your mental health. Really good bread is so simple, and so easy, and so cheap, making it is an excellent way to start getting serious about eating good food cheaply. It’s infinitely variable, so there’s no end of how you can experiment with it, [...] |
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