Your Daily Bread: Earn it with a Baking Career
By Marianne SalinaBread and water--many survived on it throughout history, and they made it themselves of whatever was available. But today, homemade bread has become a luxury where once it was a necessity
Sourdough Bread: Oven-baked Gold
The forty-niners of the western gold rush days never took cooking classes but they essentially invented sourdough bread, cooking for themselves in primitive conditions. In the morning they'd mix milk and flour into a dough and leave it behind the wood stove to warm throughout the day. By evening it would have risen, bubbly and sour, and be ready for them to add flour, leavening agents and some kind of shortening, then form it into biscuits to bake. In the San Francisco bay area, the starter--the flour and milk that soured and rose behind the stove all day--took on the distinctive taste of the salt air, making San Francisco sourdough a class unto itself.
Pioneer women on the trail coming West would keep their balls of bread dough going as another kind of starter, pulling off pieces to mix with more flour and water, creating bread dough that rose throughout the day while keeping their original starter going. When they'd stop for the night the bread would be risen and ready to bake for the evening meal.
Bread Making Around the World
Culinary classes can teach you the basics of making your own bread, filling the house with the smell of fresh baked bread, and how to create splendid gift breads, from holiday stollen (a traditional German Christmas bread, stuffed with fruits and nuts) to Italian ciabatta bread for dinner. After taking a cooking class you can answer the age old question: "What's for dinner?" With something new: "French cooking!" If you've taken a bread-making class, dinner might be accompanied by fresh baguettes.
So if you're looking for a career change, or simply following your passions, taking a cooking class can lead you to a new menu of answers to "What's for dinner?"
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About the AuthorMarianne Salina is a freelance writer in Spokane, Washington. She writes about pursuits in education and degree opportunities.
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