In my opinion, bread making is
an art and a science.
There is a special pleasure
working with bread and just the aroma of baking bread throughout the house is
well worth the effort.
I grew up eating my mother’s homemade bread. We would beg and beg her to make it and it was always eaten hot from the oven covered with butter.
My mother never looked at a recipe to make her bread, she just mixed it up and it was perfect. Every Single Time. Sigh.
I can't just whip up a loaf
of bread, I always have the recipe right next to me and I have been practicing for years.
In the past, I’ve had as many bread failures as successes I think, but I
kept at it.
Using a sourdough starter is an ancient method to make leavened bread.
Using a sourdough starter is an ancient method to make leavened bread.