In today’s fast-paced world, where processed foods dominate the market, baking bread at home offers a nutritious and welcome alternative. It allows families to reconnect with the rhythms of nature using simple ingredients that nourish our bodies and souls.
Baking bread is a timeless art that invites both novices and seasoned bakers to experience the magic of transforming simple ingredients into a healthy staple and offers a deeply satisfying and enriching experience for children and adults alike. For children in particular, baking bread is an immersive, hands-on experience. They develop basic culinary and fine motor skills and begin learning important life lessons in patience, precision, and creativity. And, whatever your age, the feel of the sticky dough, the sight of the bread rising, and the delicious aroma of freshly baked bread wafting through the kitchen will always feel comforting and homely.
Waldorf teacher and educator Warren Lee Cohen’s latest book, Baking Real Bread: Family Recipes with Stories and Songs for Celebrating Bread, is designed for parents, teachers, and children alike. This practical and comprehensive guide has everything you need to get started: all the bread basics for beginners and a variety of recipes to give you the confidence to bake at home or school. People on restricted diets are catered for with wheat-free and gluten-free recipes. Warren has been baking bread and building bread ovens with communities around the world for over 40 years, and his recipes have been gathered from over 30 years of baking bread at home, for workshops, and in schools.
Baking Real Bread is a fully revised second edition of the ever-popular ‘Baking Bread with Children’, first published in 2008. Now updated and in colour, these family-friendly, easy-to-make recipes will turn flour, water, salt, and yeast into delicious and varied breads. Children will love the world stories, songs, and poems that appear throughout the book to delightfully knead the imagination. Everyone can get started straight away with recipes for beginners and work up to some mouthwatering cinnamon rolls. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, preheat the oven, and embark on a delightful bread-making adventure with your loved ones.
