Baking Real Bread

Description

Let’s bake! Promise a child there will be baking and get stuck in!
Tom Herbert, baker, The Long Table, from the Foreword

Sure to nourish body, mind and spirit.
Edmund Espe Brown, Tassajara Bread Book.

This 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. Share the magic of baking with children. They will love how the book is seasoned with world stories, songs and poems that knead the imagination and bring the techniques to life. Get started with recipes for beginners and work up to some amazing cinnamon rolls.

• 40 easy recipes for baking bread, buns, scones and muffins plus fun, festive, quick, leftover & sourdough breads
• Baking tips and ingredients, with US cups, pounds and metric measures
• Bread stories, songs and blessings from around the world
• Family, kindergarten and school baking
• Chapter on Gluten-free recipes by Julie Gritten
• Building a real bread culture: from farm to plate, growing healthy wheat, heritage wheats, fresh grains and artisan bakeries home milling and supporting artisan bakeries.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. 1. What baking bread brings to children
3. 2. Bread stories
4. 3. Tips and ingredients
5. 4. Recipes
   1. FUN BREADS
   2. Easy white bread
   3. Grandma’s split top wheat bread
   4. Oatmeal apple raisin bread
   5. Rosemary, rice and rye bread (wheat-free)
   6. Millet poppy birdseed bread
   7. Roman army bread (wheat-free)
   8. Greek pitta bread
   9. Chapatti
   10. Bagels
   11. Homemade pizza
   12. Philadelphia soft pretzels
   13. Cinnamon rolls
   14. Sesame breadsticks
   15. Cheesy snails
   16. Campfire breads
   1. FESTIVE BREADS
   2. Dragon bread
   3. Harvest spelt bread (wheat-free)
   4. Challah
   5. Santa Lucia buns
   6. Hot cross buns
   7. Easter bread
   1. QUICK BREADS
   2. Devon scones
   3. Corn bread
   4. Irish soda bread
   5. Cranberry nut muffins (wheat-free)
   6. Gingerbread men
   7. Almond rice muffins
   1. SOURDOUGH BREADS
   2. Making your sourdough cultures
   3. Country hearth loaves
   4. Sunny wheat sourdough
   5. Old World rye (wheat-free)
   1. LEFTOVER BREAD
   2. Bread and butter pudding
   3. Herbed crostini
   1. BAKING GLUTEN FREE MADE EASY AND TASTY
      by Julie Gritten
   2. Blinis (no yeast)
   3. Brown loaves
   4. Churros
   5. Irish farls
   6. Soda bread (sweet or savoury)
   7. Sweet potato and squash doughnuts
6. 5. Songs, poems and blessings to celebrate bread
7. 6. Bread projects and educational activities
   1. Building a bread oven
   2. Bakery and farm visit
   3. Secret message buns
   4. Sculptures and decorations
   5. Baking challenges
8. 7. Enlivening the senses – teaching with bread
9. 8. Baking at school
10. 9. Seven grains and nutrition
11. 10. Factory-made bread – wheat sensitivities, allergies and coeliac disease
12. Appendix I The benefits of organic and biodynamic food
13. Appendix II Building a real bread culture: from farm to plate

Baking bread at home is a wonderful thing to do – and becomes a profound experience for all when shared with children. This delightful book provides the ideal guidelines and inspiration. I strongly recommend it!
Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook

Author

Warren Lee Cohen is a long time Waldorf teacher and teacher educator. He has been baking bread and building bread ovens with communities around the world for over 40 years. In the process he has been sharing his love of the artful loaf and collecting mealtime blessings from all the cultures he encounters. His other publications include Waldorf Book of Blessings, Dragon Baked Bread and Raising the Soul.