Bread is the most forgiving of foods. It is infinitely complex and yet it is also so very simple. Flour, water, salt, and yeast. Combined in so many different ways to evoke different flavors from the grain. Today we'll make our first loaf of sourdough, a small, simple round to put our new starter to the test.
Read MoreOn this third day of Lent, we don't yet see many signs of life from our sourdough starter. But we continue to feed it in faith that the yeasts are slowly working their way through. The process of preparing our starter and our workspace for baking bread is called mise en place. The Christian practice of confession is a spiritual form of mise en place, acknowledging our own inabilities so that God can restore us and transform us, bring us back to life to love and serve and feed the world.
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