Thursday, October 27, 2005

things left behind....sometimes hard to remember

every loaf of bread that we buy ticks me off.
bread that isn't cheepy white has been inching it's way up in price - it's almost four dollars for a loaf of nice sliced bread.
and bagueettes are cheeper but the don't last a day before turning stale (which i secretly like for tea in the morning).

nils, who is living in the cottage (dads house) right now has been experimenting with different flours and yeast - wild and kefir mostly - and he has been turning out some damn fine breads. so i bought some new bread flour and i have been making bread for gio and i for the past few weeks.

i started thinking about when my mom would bake bread. it was alway hot and perfect! she made a honey white. i can even remember her showing me how to proof yeast with the honey, and when you did it right how the yeast puffed up in soft pellows above the water/honey. but i could not for the life of me remember the recipe. but there was one place i thought that might have it written down the montissori school of mc leans cook book. i knew that all three of my aunts favorite recipes are in there. and there it was page thirty-six "mother's white bread" with note "this is the bead my mother baked almost daily during the war". so i have chosen grandma parasines bread as of the almost daily baking for us.

i am wanting to experiment with other breads... infact my father and mother in law - seu valomr e ma helena - gave me a brilliant bread cook book in portugese. i can understand half of it - most of the ingredients repeat over and over i just need to learn a little more kitchen portuguese and i'll be right there.

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2 comments:

Maria Helena said...

NOSSA, QUE FOME!!!

carmela said...

you must try the recipes from the book. and take photos and post here and oh, do not let gio eat everything.