Living in a country area, we have many farms and it is tradition, or a way of farming life, that you bake your own bread if you are a farmer’s wife. You grow the wheat and you have your own flour. I suppose this is why it happens. I have a colleague, she married a farmer, and now and again I would pay her a visit to see her animals and take a few photos.
I often met her in the kitchen where she was waiting for the dough to rise to bake some bread. This is one of the photos I took.
Of course any genuine bread baking farmer’s wife also has a suitable oven. You do not bake bread for one day, but for a whole week, and the smell was fantastic.
I too have had my bread baking days, but they are now long ago. I even had a bread machine, but it is work. Who knows, with the new normal we now have, realising that not everything as not as it used to be, I might even begin to bake bread again, although……. if you buy enough bread you can always put it in the freezer.
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How wonderful to make your own bread- in fact any home baking – too delicious to resist eating too much for me though! I’m thinking I would like to live in a smaller village community – it seems much friendlier 🙂 Have a lovely weekend- hope it’s sunny there.
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It’s something all farmers wives seem to do. I used to bake a lot and I might just begin again
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I got my sourdough starter brewing again and have made pancakes once and a loaf of braided bread once so far. Nothing beats fresh bread, but it is a lot of work/exercise. I discovered that the plant mats I bought for starting seedlings works perfectly for sitting the bowl on to raise the bread.
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I don’t think I will make my own bread again. It would take up too much time and I have enough space to freeze the fresh loaves that I can buy at the store
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I used to bake bread too, especially in Israel because I had a gas oven which really helped. But it was messy and it took all day to make four loaves of exceptional bread and everyone scarfed it down in a bare few seconds. But if things get any worse, I might reconsider my options.
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We have no problems buying bread and they bake it fresh on the premises. I alsohabe enough frozen, so will not bake bread myself.
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and, let’s not forget, we are the lucky ones: We can go to the shops every day if we need to and can get various types of bread at literally any time.
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I appreciate a lot of things today, that were just taken for granted before the invasion of the hairy peas.
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