My neighbor loaned to me your $64 Tomato last summer. I loved it since we have grown tomatoes in our garden for 40 years. I just finished your book, 52 Loaves. I couldn't put it down since I could relate. I have made this same bread for 42 years for our family (4 loaves every 2 weeks).
Forty-two years?! That's 4,368 loaves (compared,
remember, to my 52). Surely that's qualifies for an entry in the
Guinness Book of records, no? (By the way, this looks like darn good
sandwich and toasting bread.) But, wait, it gets better. She and her
husband (who also bakes) grind their own wheat, in this wonderful
plywood contraption here, something called a Miracle Mill, that they purchased in
1973. No little countertop Williams-Sonoma mill for these hardy Oregon
(no surprise, there) homesteaders-- they feed this beast with 50-pound
bags of flour!
I feel like such a wimp! But it's a great (and encouraging) story, and thanks, and bravo!, my anonymous friends, for sharing and allowing me to share with you. Occasionally, something comes into your inbox which makes you feel good -- and hopeful -- about America. And for me, at least, surprisingly often, it has something to do with bread.
Wow! I am overwhelmed by their persistence, but I wonder how boring that bread must taste after all these years. Do they also bake other styles of bread?
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