Today, you might need to know these things about baking. I don’t know who you are, but these facts are calling out to you. At least one of them, maybe.
Here is the first baking tidbit:
Around 64% of people bite the head off gingerbread before eating the rest of it. Now, this is not me. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a gingerbread dude in all my life. But I’m pretty sure I’d start with a hand.
On to the next:
Every loaf of sourdough that Panera Bread has ever baked comes from the same 33-year-old sourdough strain they refer to as the “Mother dough.” This always sort of grosses me out about long-running sourdough breads. I want my food fresh.
The third thing. More bread:
Pumpernickel, a type of rye bread, is named after the Germanic words “pumpern.” It means flatulent in German. And. The “Nickel” is a reference to Old Nick, which, in their old culture, was a familiar name for Satan. So there it is. The dense bread is hard to digest, causing excess flatulence. Hence, pumpernickel means “the devil’s fart.”
And finally. The weird part of baking:
There is a doughnut shop in Portland. It is called Voodoo Doughnut. Here is the thing. They used to sell doughnuts glazed with NyQuil and others packed with Tums and Pepto Bismol. They did this until local health officials ordered them to stop. Blech. Who would buy a NyQuil Donut? Or any of them?
The point of the story is this: I’m on a roll today. It is the very yeast I can do. It is because you are one smart cookie. Muffin compares to you. And I loaf you all so much.
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“A party without cake is just a meeting.” — Julia Child
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“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king.” — Louis Bromfield
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“All sorrows are less with bread.” — Miguel de Cervantes
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