A Morsel to Chew
January 08th, 2014 by John Mansfield
“At the beginning of that 40-year period [1890 to 1930], bread was the country’s single most important food and 90 per cent of it was baked in homes by women. By the end of the period, bread was still the country’s number one food, but 94 per cent of it was baked outside the home by men. With the exception of a few, mostly rural, households, bread production had been almost entirely displaced from the realm of women’s work and the space of the home.”
From “White bread bio-politics: purity, health, and the triumph of industrial baking” by Aaron Bobrow-Strain, quoted by Steve Sailer.
Comments (6)
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January 08th, 2014 07:18:02
G.
January 8, 2014
I’m straining to imagine how this proves the evils of the patriarchy (or of feminism, for that matter), but nothing do. My powers of invention run weak today.
I recall an Elders’ Quorum lesson that opened something like this, “Brethren, we need to be good to our wives or they may stop baking homemade bread.” Gasps (literally), and the discussion he intended got pulled onto a new path. There is a large proportion of Mormon women, it appears, who can bake a mean loaf of bread.
Michael Towns
January 8, 2014
I can’t help but be crude and point out that there are other goods that our wives can withhold if we are not being good to them.
G.
January 8, 2014
Yes, you can help it. Anyhow, the EQ instructor didn’t have a crude quid pro quo in mind.
Ivan Wolfe
January 8, 2014
I rather enjoy making my own homemade bread. It is, however, very time intensive, unless you have a bread machine.
Michael Towns
January 9, 2014
Man doth not live by bread alone.
Bookslinger
January 9, 2014
No-knead bread is easy and is high quality. I’ve been trying some recipes based on this guy’s method and they come out really good:
http://www.youtube.com/artisanbreadwithstev
(no final ‘e’)
You mix a wet dough and let it rise overnight, 8 to 24 hours. The next day,
you punch it down, and let rise 1.5 hours. Put it in a pre-heated covered casserole dish and bake 30 minutes at 450. Take lid off dish lid, and bake another 3 to 5 minutes.
So it does take someone to hang around, and turn on the oven after 1 hour of rising. cuz it takes 30 minutes for the casserole dish to get up to temp, then put it in after 1.5 hours of rising, then take out at 30/35 min.