The Bread lady

bypaulgoodwin

5.9K followers

9 years ago

Hi guys and Gals

This is another new adventure for me

WE got up this morning and as we had borrowed a car we were able to drive to another village which os 60 Kilometres away to see the Bread Lady - different scenery but very nice to travel -

So we arrived at her house just after 13:00 because she told us the bread would be ready at one and so we are very excited to get this bread as we had used it about three times this year -

The lady lives with her son in this pa=lace which she built by hand and she also makes Lithuanian costumes and is one of the head people in Lithuania when it comes to costumes and her work is the best ever!

This is the oven and she puts it on at 5AM and it is ready to bake the bread at 9am and the bread comes out at 13:00 not a minute longer because it is all part of the process and she bakes 16 loaves at a time.

This is our loaves and all wrapped up ready and still hot - they have to stay wrapped up for 24 hours again part of the process -

This bread does not contain Yeast so how does it rise you all - good question magic!!!

It is rye bread and it has been sprouted it contains water and a bacteria that was fermented from older dough mix but that is all I know and the bread will be cut tomorrow

BUT we also ordered a cake which is Buckwheat and organic with the same magic in it so it is healthy and tastes absolutely amazing and we just could not wait and as soon as we got home we ate half which was still warm!!!

WE ate it with hot chelate drink and it went down just soooooo well - no feeling of fullness and we could have ate it all but said no tomorrow is another day

I just LOVE this village life!!!