Bread Making Secrets Everyone Should Know

In need of some bread making tips and tricks? Here are the bread making secrets everyone should know. Read the complete guide to get starting making delicious bread.

By Carol Taylor
Updated on September 15, 2022
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In need of some bread making tips and tricks? Here are the bread making secrets everyone should know. Read the complete guide to get starting making delicious bread.

A person who bakes bread can comfort children with a glance, converse with elms, and invent new colors. They can gentle animals with a touch, talk to teenagers, look good in whatever they wear. Or so we are likely to believe. Such is our reverence for this elemental food and the power of baking bread that the people who can do it seem to tap an ancient communal memory, to possess powers that the rest of us can only dimly imagine.

Stuff of Life

Bread pervades our language and literature, a metaphor for physical and spiritual sustenance.

We petition for our daily bread, live not by bread alone, and break bread together. (The word companion derives from the Latin companio, “one who shares bread.”) The satirist Juvenal lamented that his fellow Romans cared only for “bread and circuses,” a concern we still share: A modern man who is short of bread could use a little dough to see him through.

And substance preceded the image. Ten thousand years ago, the domestication of wild grasses made the domestication of humanity possible. Freed from the necessity to roam constantly in search of food, humans could settle down and invent civilization. Heroic images of fur-clad, spear-wielding hunters notwithstanding, we soon fed ourselves primarily on grains.

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