Breadmaking as a therapeutic exercise

[ailbhe]

Reposted from a comment elsewhere:

If you buy a pack of yeast there's a recipe printed on the side. 1 lb flour, 1 tsp yeast, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 pint warm water. Beat the living daylights out of it, abandon it to its miserable fate and see how it likes it, beat the living daylights out of it again, let it recover, and just as it thinks it's safe, tip it head-first into the fucking oven. HA. That'll show it.

Comments

[helenic]

I loved this the first time I saw it, I still think it's the best recipe for bread ever.

I could do with some kneading therapy this morning. When I live somewhere that has an oven that dough won't know what's hit it.

[taimatsu]

I have yet to do this, and I need to even more now! I'll get on it this weekend after my dissertation's in.

[cabbagemedley.livejournal.com]

Yes! These days I work long hours outside the house, and the Owl brought a bread-making machine to our domestic set-up, so we just use that. But I miss beating hell out of dough.

[rosefox]

I really enjoyed reading this aloud to sinboy, though I'm not sure it increased his interest in bread-baking. *)

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

i keep saying i have to make my own bread, and then being too lazy to! the thought of doing it without a mixer is vaguely intimidating.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

It's not at all bad, and I say this as someone with generally low energy levels. It's nowhere near the scale of, say, making meringue by hand. I find cleaning a food mixer more tiring than making bread on a board and then cleaning the board.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

People have been making bread without mixers -- hell, without _recipes_ -- for thousands of years. It's not hard. Honest.