I’m running a little late posting this link for my column from last week, Mom of nine passes on her bread-making wisdom. But when I just saw friend on Facebook asking how to make a simple loaf of bread – I thought it might be of use to a few people.
I learned all I know about baking bread from this the lady, Janie Rose, who I featured Wednesday in my weekly column that I write for the Knoxville News Sentinel. And lucky for you, she is having a bread making class in November. So now you can learn too!
Grinding your own wheat to make homemade bread as she does, might sound time consuming and a thing of the past. But it turns out there is a good handful of people in Knoxville interested in Janie’s bread-making. Within 24 hours of the article being published – she received 17 phone calls from people wanting to take her bread-making class.
It’ s a great way to save money too! I pay $31 for a 50 pound bag of grain, compared to about $5 for a five pound bag of good organic flour at the store. Plus there is the health benefits of it too, that I talk about in my column. Janie told me she did the math and figured, depending on the cost of honey, making one loaf of bread costs less than $1. Fresh bakery style bread in the grocery store or farmer’s market can run as high as $6 a loaf. Making your own bread can save a bundle!
Janie lives about a mile down the street from me. In 2009, when she learned I had a brand new baby at home, it wasn’t two hours later until she brought me two pans of fresh pizza dough ready to be topped and baked for dinner. A mother nine, Janie was a La Leche League leader for many years and made several trips to their national conferences – sometimes taking on speaking roles. Her children range in age from 11 to 34. Most of them were born at home and she spent the last 30 years homeschooling them.
She’s some kind of mama!
