Wild Bread: Sourdough Reinvented

(Hardback)

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Is the world ready to rethink bread making MaryJane Butters thinks so. Wild Bread completely reinvents the concept of healthier-for-you, naturally fermented sourdough. Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work and sour-tasting, artisan-style-only loaves. In Wild Bread, MaryJane's breakthrough, quick and easy, 1 minute 2x/day technique demonstrates step-by-step the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured - everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat. Using her method, every style of bread imaginable, including gluten free, will loft with wild abandon without the purchase of a single packet of not-so-healthy, store-bought yeast. In MaryJane's world, there's no such thing as too much bread. Once you convert to slow-rise, nutritionally superior, wild-yeast bread, that bagel you've been thinking about is more like a vitamin pill than a source of guilt. AUTHOR: MaryJane Butters publishes MaryJanesFarm magazine, runs a successful organic farm, and manages several product lines. She is also the author of several books and lives in Idaho. 475 colour photographs

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Lessons gleaned from MaryJane Butters' diverse pioneering background, from carpenter to dairy owner to former wilderness ranger turned organic farmer, led her eventually to stewardship of the 4-story, historic Barron Flour Mill. It was only natural that her years spent living on remote Forest Service fire-watch towers with only a living, breathing sourdough "mother" for companionship would lead her to write a pioneering wild-yeast bread book. She is the author of eight books; editor of MaryJanesFarm magazine, now in its 18th year of publication; and lives on an organic farm in Idaho. Two of her grown children and their spouses are employed full-time at her farm and she is "Nanny" to half a dozen grandchildren.