Baking Bread with Children

Lee Cohen Warren

Sujets

• Children's
• Lifestyle
• Baking

Informations

• Publié par: Hawthorn Press Ltd
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781912480425
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Baking Bread with Children
Warren Lee Cohen
Illustrated by Marije Rowling
Baking Bread with Children copyright © 2008 Warren Lee Cohen
Warren Lee Cohen is hereby identified as the author of this work in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act, 1988. He asserts and gives notice of his moral right under this Act.
Published by Hawthorn Press, Hawthorn House,
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Drawings and cover illustration © Marije Rowling
Cover design and typesetting in Plantin by Hawthorn Press, Stroud, Glos
Reprinted by Severn, Gloucestershire, UK, 2019.
Printed on FSC certified paper using 100% renewable energy.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data applied for
ISBN 978-1-903458-60-0
eISBN 978-1-912480-42-5
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Tom Herbert
Introduction
Chapter one What baking bread brings to children
Chapter two Bread stories
Chapter three Tips and ingredients
Chapter four Recipes
Fun breads
Festive breads
Quick breads
Sourdough breads
Leftover bread
Chapter five Songs, poems and blessings to celebrate bread
Chapter six Bread projects and educational activities
Building a bread oven
Bakery and farm visit
Secret message buns
Sculptures and decorations
Baking challenges
Chapter seven Enlivening the senses – teaching with bread
Chapter eight Baking at school
Chapter nine Seven grains and nutrition
Chapter ten Factory-made bread – wheat sensitivities, allergies and coeliac disease
Chapter eleven Author’s bread biography
Appendix The benefits of organic and biodynamic food
Bibliography
Useful websites
Index
Recipes
Fun breads
Easy white bread
Grandma’s split top wheat bread
Oatmeal apple raisin bread
Rosemary, rice and rye bread (wheat-free)
Millet poppy birdseed bread
Roman army bread (wheat-free)
Greek pita bread
Chapatti
Bagels
Homemade pizza
Philadelphia soft pretzels
Cinnamon rolls
Sesame breadsticks
Cheesy snails
Campfire bread
Festive breads
Dragon bread
Harvest spelt bread (wheat-free)
Challah
Santa Lucia buns
Hot cross buns
Easter bread
Quick breads
Devon scones
Corn bread
Irish soda bread
Cranberry nut muffins (wheat-free)
Gingerbread men
Almond rice muffins
Sourdough breads
Making your sourdough culture
Country hearth loaves
Sunny wheat sourdough
Old World rye (wheat-free)
Leftover bread
Bread and butter pudding
Herbed crostini
Dedication
This book is dedicated to all those inspiring bread bakers, young and old, with whom I have had the privilege of kneading dough, and especially to Luciana who is wonderful leaven for my soul.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Floris Books for their permission to include three poems from Prayers and Graces: Before the flour, the mill; Earth who gives to us this food; and Grace over the meal.
I would like to thank Colin Price and Songbird Press for permission to include three compositions from his book, Let’s Sing and Celebrate.
I would also like to thank the following individuals whose kind help, support and creative contributions have been an immense help in bringing together the diverse content of this book.
Marije Rowling, illustrator and collaborator
Elisabeth Winkler, editor
Martin Large, publisher, whose bold questions inspired this book
Beverly McCartney
Christine Fynes-Clinton
Cinnie Blaire
Erica Grantham
Gabrielle Dietrich
Jill Taplin
Julie Ziegler
Karin Jarman
Kate Hammond
Kathy Brunetta
Luciana Baptista
Michael Moran
Simone Horowitz
Susanna Segnit
Thais Bishop
Wendy Causey
Wendy Cook
Lost Valley Educational Center
Olympia Waldorf School
Emerson College kitchen and community
Foreword
To bake is to live – to share bread is to love
How quickly we have traded baking bread, this most instinctive of human activities, for convenience. This book’s value is beyond measure if it gets you to connect with baking and children become part of this.
Take two ingredients, a ground cereal and some water, make a paste and bake over an open fire, and you have food that will sustain you through the lean months. Anything else added into the mix or to enhance the method can, if done with consideration, yield a more civilised loaf.
Our shared ancestry of farming, taming beasts, harnessing water and wind power, encapsulating fire in an oven, and in fact most of our early progress and advancement, during peaceable times, was driven by the need for plentiful and edible bread.
A loaf on the table when we share a meal sings to us of this well-being. To be equipped to provide this loaf yourself while involving children with putting it there, is surely one of life’s joys. It will require a lot from you: nurturing, waiting, kneading, watching, tapping. This effort is hugely rewarded by bread’s impact on our senses, something we absorb and carry with us through life.
Baking Bread With Children reflects something of the spirit of bread-making, and the imprint left on cultures across the world. The stories, poems, recipes and pictures will serve us as a well-honed springboard from which to dive arms first (sleeves rolled up) into the making and baking and sharing that will be the legacy of this exquisite book.
As a child growing up above my family’s bakery in the Cotswold High Street of Chipping Sodbury, my earliest memories are a blend of exciting sensations. Sneaking down at 4am during the summer holidays to watch my Daddy work amongst billowing clouds of flour, accompanied by the whir of mixing machines, buzzers and the latest Bruce Springsteen cassette, his hands and muscular arms working deftly. This visual manifestation presenting itself to rubbed-awake eyes was layered with the intoxicating smell of the sourdough tub and the invigorating aroma of steaming loaves being tipped out of the oven. Particularly fondly, I recollect the triumph of finally being old enough to jam and sugar the doughnuts, and over-filling the last one as a degustible reward for myself. The connection with those early morning efforts, followed shortly by the queue out the door with customers eager to buy the morning’s produce, paved the way for me to pursue the craft.
Bread-making gives and gives. Now a father of three, I count as amongst the finest time of my life the moments shared with Milo, Beatrix and Josephine, immersing ourselves in the making of bread. I have found we were all inspired by the stories in this book, and when it is time to make bread we lose ourselves in a world of mixing and kneading.
So read the book and absorb it from cover to cover, but I implore you to promise a child or two that there will be some baking, and get stuck in. There is very little to lose and an inordinate amount to be gained. Resist exacting perfection and meticulous attention to detail. Instead celebrate the entire messy and tasty process, connecting with an intuitive desire to create and share.
Well, don’t listen to me! Get baking.
Tom Herbert
Director at Hobbs House Bakery
www.hobbshousebakery.co.uk
Introduction

Welcome to Baking Bread with Children, an invitation to share the magic of baking bread with children of all ages. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned hand, this book offers an abundance of information and inspiration to make baking a satisfying and rich experience. It’s a book that you, and the children in your life, will want to share time and again.
Children (adults too!) are deeply impressed by the alchemy of how yeast turns flour, water and salt into bread. Creating something to eat from such basic ingredients is real life magic. It is an unforgettable experience to bake a beautiful loaf. It touches all our senses as well as feelings of accomplishment, wonder and joy. Baking bread is meaningful work that teaches a diverse set of skills and offers bountiful rewards.
I have gathered recipes from over 20 years of baking bread at home, workshops and schools. Designed for parents, teachers and children, this practical and comprehensive guide has everything you need to get started: all the bread basics for beginners and a variety of recipes to give you confidence baking at home or at school. People on restricted diets are catered for with wheat-free and gluten-free recipes. I also show how to make bread rise without commercial yeast using your own sourdough starter.
But this is more than a recipe book. Baking bread without engaging the imagination is hard work. Add imagination, and the activity becomes fun and deeply nourishing. I have collected a store of multicultural tales, songs and blessings to bring baking to life. This is so vital that l have sandwiched the recipes between them.
The bread stories precede the recipes, while the songs, poems and blessings come after. Kneading the imagination enriches a child’s baking experience making it both formative and memorable. More about these benefits are in the first chapter, ‘What baking bread brings to children’.
After sharing recipes and a lively bread culture of stories, songs and poems, I offer suggestions for bread-related projects and educational activities. This section will be of special interest to teachers, adventurous parents and home schoolers. I start with instructions on how to build an earthen bread oven. A wood-fired oven makes a profound impression on all that create and bake with one.
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