….bread making
Now that may not be your cup of tea but for me it’s fun and it helps support activities at Montgomery’s Inn (an 1840s-era inn operated as a museum by Toronto Cultural Services at 4709 Dundas St W (at Islington Ave) in Etobicoke, Ontario, 416-394-8113, montinn@toronto.ca.).
Every Tuesday I go to the inn to help prepare the dough for six to seven different types of bread. There are no preservatives in the bread and most of them are made with specific bread flours that are ordered from specialty mills. I’m usually in the kitchen for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
On Wednesday I return to the inn where anywhere from four to seven volunteers shape the dough, fire up the outdoor brick oven, prepare two sourdough breads and one or two batches of focaccia. Wednesdays is always a longer day because it takes anywhere from two to three bakes to get all the bread baked and ready for the Farmers’ Market where a another group of volunteers sell the bread. Typically on Wednesday we’re there for five to six hours and lunch is always prepared for us by our ‘boss’ who makes some of the most amazing meals from scratch (homemade soups and stews, sausages with homemade buns, pasta and salads, baked beans, etc.).
This week I took some photos of our beautiful and delicious bread.
Mama Cormier 
Sounds fun to me and the bread looks delicious 😀
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Some of my friends don’t get it and keep asking me how long I’m going to do this. I always tell them that when it stops being fun, I’ll quit.
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Yum! 🙂
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That sounds like a lot of fun! It looks delicious!
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I gained 8 pounds when I started working here. I can’t blame it all on the bread but it didn’t help. Thank goodness I’ve lost it all plus more and I’m hoping to go down even more. Every time I indulge in the bread more than once a week the weight loss stops or I gain but I love it so much.
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Oh my oh my oh my, talking about whetting my appetite! 😀 I don’t like the bread of Tuscany at all, it’s unsalted mostly, the crust gets hard immediately and it’s just not inviting. I’d love some of that!!
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It is delicious, especially the sour dough breads but I love the rye bread and all the fancy breads as well. There are too many that I don’t like.
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