Sunday, July 22, 2007

Bread with Feeling

I've always been a fan real bread, that is bread with feeling. If you're gotten bread from most grocery stores, that might sound bizarre. I realized that a couple years ago when I had bread in a grocery store and it was bland, lifeless thing that had been "Baked" in the store. It looked like bread; it felt like bread, however when I bite into it, it was like eating a white sponge. According to the store, it had been par baked, in other words, shipped to the store frozen and the put into the ovens frozen. The result was obvious, the yeast dies and the dough gets wet from freezing. Remember what happens when you add too much water to flour, paste. In other words, if you want bread with feeling, you need to go to a local bakery.

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