2017: The Year of Bread

As a lover of all kinds of bread, I have decided to make 2017 the Year of Bread. I love cooking and baking, and bread is my favorite food of all time. It's my comfort food and even my bored eating food. I'm trying to go to Culinary School (haven't decided which one yet) with the end goal of starting my own small bakery. If I'm going to do that I need to know how to bake bread. Lots of bread. All kinds of bread. The way to do that is by baking bread everyday of 2017. I'm going to follow Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads from 1987 that I borrowed from my friend Shawn's mother Michele. It's not actually the newest version, but it will do just fine.

It is an incredible piece of work: over 700 pages of techniques, equipment, stories and most importantly, recipes. These 300+ recipes ranges from white breads to potato breads, french breads to sourdough breads, and fruit breads to delicate croissants. And I'm going to make them all. Or as many as I can. I'm going to just go down the line of recipes, day after day, and because they are grouped by bread type, I'm going to be making a lot of the same style of breads in a row before moving on. It starts at White Breads and ends at Cracker recipes. I'll be adding snippets of information from the book as well as my adventures in making each bread and what I thought of them in each post. Many of these recipes make multiple loaves in one batch and if I've done my math correctly, that's even more bread than I can eat in a year. I've still weighing options on what to do with all of the extras, but I've got it narrowed down to freezing a lot of it, giving it away to family and friends, selling it to anyone who wants to buy it, and donating everything else to the local food bank or soup kitchen. I'll keep working on it though and update you guys when something comes up.
And so without further ado, lets begin My Year of Bread.