Bread for Days

Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish

Cookbook Type: Bread, Baking

Favourite Recipe: The Saturday White Bread (pg. 81)

Favourite Page: Where does flour come from? (pgs 54-57)

Favourite Quote: “This bread is impressive eaten still warm from the oven or grilled. It soars when toasted and served with eggs and chilled cider or a glass of bubbly. It shines when made into warm, crisp croutons for use in a salad vinaigrette. It sings tenor high notes in a BLT sandwich with lemony mayonnaise and fresh ripe tomatoes. ” (pg. 177)

Rating: 5/5 Larousse Gastronomiques (📕📕📕📕📕)

This book is the definition of “Do one thing really well. Don’t try to do a vast amount of things mediocrely”.

It’s a classic. It’s quintessential.

Auntie remembers the day she got it, just as well as she remembers the day she cut bangs in for the first time. Truly life changing.

Flour Water Salt Yeast teaches us the as-long-as-humanity art of baking bread. It shows us what we can do with our hands and four ingredients, sometimes a couple more. It gives us autonomy and empowers us to give the gift of bread to our families. For what its worth, I can’t teach you to fish, but I can teach you how to bake bread. You tell me what’s more worthwhile.

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