Terrabyte Farm

If you like to make bread, or if you have always been wanting to make bread but didn’t think you had the time, skills, etc, then you MUST get your hands on a copy of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.  Here is a link to their blog as well.  We just picked up a copy on ILL on Monday and have had the most delicious bread this week.  The method is very simple, essentially, you mix together a large batch of wet dough which takes about ten minutes and let it rise for a few hours.  Then it goes in the fridge and whenever you want to make a loaf, you take out a pound or two of dough, shape it, let it rest for about forty minutes, then cook it for a half hour.  The dough is good in the fridge for two weeks, but I bet you will eat it all much sooner.  We made the four pound standard recipe and used it in three days.  You can also double, triple, etc, the recipe making as much as you need at one time.  We are going to purchase this book, they have lots and lots of recipes for add-ins plus a few chapters on trouble shooting.  As it is, we really only by milk and bread from the grocery, now it will just be milk. (I buy the staples we need in six month supplies from the local co-op, there is nothing so great as having a stocked basement and NOT having to make weekly trips to the grocery with two young kids).