Breadmaking

I'm no gourmand and don't really relate to foodies. But I have a whole lot of ideas I'd like to try for just because and just for me and the husband, but we don't have the income to support a spending spree at the grocery. (Especially now with my being out of work and all.)

Every so often, more often as it's becoming more necessary, I get in the groove and make some tasty staples. Like bread. I love making bread because it's a great combination between art and skill. If you don't do everything just right with the right temperature and the right humidity, things  go wrong. Like the story I heard in my baking program in school:

Breadmaking: yeast development.

A new baker was making bread and forgot to add the salt. He let the master baker know and the dough was discarded immediately because incorporating salt evenly into a 20 pound ball of dough is too difficult to be worthwhile. A little while later that same young baker was finishing up his shift by taking out the day's trash. The back door to the dumpster in the alley was slightly jammed. After a little brute force, the door gave way to a huge mass of bread dough taking over the alley!

The moral, well, more practical lesson, is that without salt, the yeast will not stop producing gas (not to mention making the bread pretty tasty.) And yes, that story may have been a bit fabricated. It might be in it's entirety, but it stuck. So I always add salt.

Like I say, I would like to do this more often, but my budget prevents it. But I'm hoping to hear back from a local grocery for a job. Crossing my fingers that my application and resume scream "pick me pick me!"