Thoughts on making bread......

Bread for all Seasons by Beth Hensperger

egg white wash sprinkled with sugar in the raw

find the wheat berries......

Making bread, the yeast, kneading, mixing and the rhythm eluded me for decades. I tried again, now in my 4th decade, and have had success. Even my family asks me to make bread, which is the greatest compliment. But here's the thing, I get bored making the same bread over and over, so I go looking for other recipes with different flavors to try.

I began my renewed  interest (and determination) in baking bread with Cooks Illustrated Anadama bread and are now mostly baking from Peter Reinhart and Beth Hensperger. Yesterday I began a recipe from Ms Hensperger book, Blueberry Cardamon Bread, with dried blueberries (I soaked mine in orange juice) and wheat berries ( soaked in water, cooked in water and cooled).

I bake it, cooled per instructions and sliced for every one to try. The wheat berries hardened up...How did that happen? So it is like eating bread with small popcorn kernels. My kids like it because they like biting on nannies. The bread is really tasty, moist and I would make it again without the wheat berries. Which brings me to these words found on Pinterest

My bread is not perfect but it is a beautiful thing!

I enjoy the process, love the result and it satisfies me that I can provide for my family. Enjoy your day and I hope that I have encouraged someone to try something new.