Weekly Breadcrumb is a weekly series where I look back on what baking has taught me, shown me, or reminded me over the previous week. A lesson, or gift, I have received from baking. This past week (and recently overall), has felt difficult for me. Kind of a low period in certain respects. Some of…
Author: Kristen
How I Store My Homemade Bread
The way you store your bread (and baked goods) should be special – here’s why. How and where do you store your bread, once it has cooked and cooled? There are a lot of options – a bag, a bread box, beeswax, aluminum foil. I store our bread right in my trusty blue Dutch oven…
Weekly Breadcrumb: Challenge Your Assumptions
Weekly Breadcrumb is a weekly series where I look back on what baking has taught me, shown me, or reminded me over the previous week. A lesson, or gift, I have received from baking. This past week, I made rye bread – and it tasted very different from the rye bread I’ve had years ago,…
Weekly Breadcrumb: Planning Ahead Pays Off
Weekly Breadcrumb is a weekly series where I look back on what baking has taught me, shown me, or reminded me over the previous week. A lesson, or gift, I have received from baking. It can be challenging for me to bake or cook something that requires a long period of time to prepare before…
Delicious Fresh-Milled Bread Recipes for Beginners
I’m coming up on almost three months of baking with fresh flour, and I have baked many loaves of bread! Many of them have been really good, but I’ve had a few that turned out so badly that I had to throw them away. When I first started out, I had a hard time figuring…
Weekly Breadcrumb: A Pat on the Back!
Weekly Breadcrumb is a weekly series where I look back on what baking has taught me, shown me, or reminded me over the previous week. A lesson, or gift, I have received from baking. This week’s lesson is simple. I’ve only been at this fresh-milled flour gig for two-and-a-half months. In that time, I’ve made…
How to Store Fresh-Milled Flour
I’ve posted about how to store your grains, and my grains storage solution has worked out great! Now – how to store your flour that is freshly milled? The answer is simple, and one that I didn’t anticipate when I first started this journey. How do I store my freshly-milled flour? Well, for most of…
Weekly Breadcrumb: Use Your Instincts
Weekly Breadcrumb is a weekly series where I look back on what baking has taught me, shown me, or reminded me over the previous week. A lesson, or gift, I have received from baking. This week, I made Kneippbrød with fresh-milled flour for the second time. The first time I made it, it turned out great…
Kneippbrød (Norwegian Kneipp Bread)
My maternal grandparents were both born and raised in Norway, and so Norwegian traditions and foods have been an important part of my life. I came across a recipe for Kneippbrød in Magnus Nillson’s “The Nordic Baking Book,” and knew I needed to make this. This is a very popular Norwegian bread, but I am…
Weekly Breadcrumb: Lessons in Tenacity
Weekly Breadcrumb is a weekly series where I look back on what baking has taught me, shown me, or reminded me over the previous week. A lesson, or gift, I have received from baking. My 15-year-old has taught me something very important about tenacity. I think of tenacity as having a relentlessness in your pursuits…