Thread: Who bakes bread?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I started working in a Department Store while I was still in High School. I got minimum wage which in 1964 was 1 buck an hour.

Hell! You were in Hog Heaven!!!! My maternal grandfather used to talk about 'IF' you could get paid $1.00 per day with room and board you were making damn good wages!

Years ago a fellow employee brought in a xeroxed copy of a picture and the caption from a magazine of some gals father along with two other employees standing in front of a Safeway in 1934. There were all these hand written signs in the windows with the prices of things. The only price I remember was that bacon was $0.12 per pound.

The gal had written "Look at those prices, think about how much they could buy".

Those weren't CHEAP PRICES! Those poor bastards were still coming out of the Great Deppression and those were EXPENSIVE PRICES!! Those guys 'Might' have been making a bit more than my Grandfather did doing farm work, but not much.

Nobody paid me nothin' for this:

Originally Posted by PaulKidd

Nobody paid me nothin' for this:

Love for what you do for family is the most important payment there is

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I started working in a Department Store while I was still in High School. I got minimum wage which in 1964 was 1 buck an hour.

Don’t lie Nelson you started at Macy,s in 1858

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Don’t lie Nelson you started at Macy,s in 1858

Well if you must know and now the cat is out of the bag, when I was a kid I sold things in an outdoor market in Rome mostly to the gladiators. On a good day I made 5 Bronze Asses.

Tried a long loaf loose on the stone and another in the Dutch.
Scoring the tops is not as easy as you’d think it should be.

Smells great, went with 100% apf this time as the starter is whole grain. Just experimenting.

Looking good my friend

I don't have a fancy lame, I just use a DE blade and hold it between my fingers and I have found that if I score while the dough is cold it's easier to score than if the dough is warm. With that said, I rarely ever do any scoring on non sourdough.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Well if you must know and now the cat is out of the bag, when I was a kid I sold things in an outdoor market in Rome mostly to the gladiators. On a good day I made 5 Bronze Asses.

My lame is like yours Roy, but on a popsicle stick for artsy flare, hehe.

And this bread has a chewier crust than the one from the DO. Think I liked the flavour when I added the 40% atta more actually.

This is more like sandwich bread whereas with the previous batch it was more dip worthy and savory.
This interest could get me chubby.
Tried sourdough waffles for lunch with the pour off as well..
Yummy!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

This is more like sandwich bread whereas with the previous batch it was more dip worthy and savory.
This interest could get me chubby.
Tried sourdough waffles for lunch with the pour off as well..
Yummy!

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