Fresh Baked Bread…. It is so delicious! But it requires work and dedication! Is a homesteader looking to spend his time wisely going to decide that making a fresh loaf is a worthwile endeavor…? Or could time be better spent on the farm doing something other than baking? Find out in this episode of Homesteady, as we talk about the history of bread, how to bake, sourdoughs, celiacs, and everything else to do with our daily bread!
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Great episode. We’ve gone over a month, maybe pushing two now without buying bread. homemade bread is the best!
Wow, Nice Terry! It sure is. What kind of Bread are your making?
You can make a starter from scratch with flour, water, and time! No need to purchase one! That is how i started! 🙂 We have ours hibernating in the fridge currently! May have to dig that bad boy out this weekend and make some bread or english muffins! 😀 Loved the history part of the show so cool! 🙂
Thanks Emily, very true. We tried that at first, but ours didn’t seem to take off so well, so off to the Internet for some help ;)! Have you ever made english muffin bread? One of our faves!
No! Id love to have the recipe! 😀
Can we get the recipe! The only one I’ve found that is the right amount of crusty and crumb takes forever.
Click Here for that recipe!
Wonderful podcast! My husband and I recently cut out all store bought bread products and have switched to completely homemade. We were very interested in the cost comparison of homemade bread versus the $1.00 loafs we could get at the local grocery stores. We have 2 kids (14 and 11) and they eat a lot of sandwiches so I compared the costs of flour/yeast/salt/time to the gas/time/price of the bread and came up with a surprise….it was comparable! What was not comparable was the quality! The quality of the bread that we are making here at home (the husband is a darn good baker too) is light years better than anything you can buy at the store for a $1.00 and if you compare the bread we are making at home to the “artisan” bakery bread at the local fancy grocery store…..we win again because we are making it much cheaper per loaf.
I started a sour dough starter that lives on our kitchen counter(I read it bedtime stories too 🙂 with flour and water and have had great success with it as well as we are making white and wheat “sandwich” loaf bread from dry yeast. We bake bread about 1-2 times a week and have been store bought bread free for….about 6 weeks. We keep our bread in an old bread box on the counter and it keeps well for about 4-5 days.
Thanks again for a wonderful and pertinent podcast!
Love from Ohio!
Thanks for listening Raven! Interesting that you all came up with a similar price as we did in our breakdown! Very cool.
In the spirit of this tape, I’d like to share with you this bread recipe: it is designed to be simple, fail-proof, easy and economical.
http://www.waterlily-unlimited.nl/brood/bread_metric.html
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I have been feeding my sourdough starter for the past few days and yesterday while I was browsing podcasts I decided to listen to your episode on sourdough bread. I really enjoyed the episode! Today I started my sourdough bread and am listening to more of your episodes. 🙂
JoAnna, Glad you found and are enjoying our show! What are you making with sourdough? We love the english muffin bread, SF Style bread, and of course, Sourdough Pancakes!
So I have a working-gal’s short-cut to homemade bread: I use the bread maker to do my kneading and rising for me on the dough setting, then I pour that out and shape the loaf and cook in a loaf pan for a traditional shape. Great podcast though. I really want to try sourdough now.