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-# Breadmaking+This topic is part of [[gt:food|Food & drink]]. 
 +====== Breadmaking ======
  
  
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-## What is it breadmaking?+===== What is it breadmaking? =====
  
 It's making bread with your own hands, with flour, water, salt and (if you're making leavened bread) some kind of raising agent. The other essential ingredient is time. It's making bread with your own hands, with flour, water, salt and (if you're making leavened bread) some kind of raising agent. The other essential ingredient is time.
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-## What are the benefits of breadmaking?+===== What are the benefits of breadmaking? =====
  
 After the war, large commercial bakers developed the Chorleywood breadmaking process, that uses flour, water, enzymes, chemical oxidisers and emulsifiers, vast quantities of yeast and very little time. The ingredients are blended at high speed, left for 45 minutes and baked for 20 before cooling and packaging. Speed is of the essence, and the result is something pretty indigestible. After the war, large commercial bakers developed the Chorleywood breadmaking process, that uses flour, water, enzymes, chemical oxidisers and emulsifiers, vast quantities of yeast and very little time. The ingredients are blended at high speed, left for 45 minutes and baked for 20 before cooling and packaging. Speed is of the essence, and the result is something pretty indigestible.
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-## What can I do?+===== What can I do? =====
  
 Artisan bread is more expensive than commercial bread (not surprisingly, as it contains things like flavour and nutrients, as well as requiring more time and skill). Look out for small artisan bakers, or check the [Real Bread Finder](http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/bakery_finder/) on the website of the [Real Bread Campaign](http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/). Or you can save money by making your own. To get a really good, nutritious, tasty bread you have to nurture it. It takes time, but you don't have to attend to it for the whole time - it can be left to do its own thing. Artisan bread is more expensive than commercial bread (not surprisingly, as it contains things like flavour and nutrients, as well as requiring more time and skill). Look out for small artisan bakers, or check the [Real Bread Finder](http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/bakery_finder/) on the website of the [Real Bread Campaign](http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/). Or you can save money by making your own. To get a really good, nutritious, tasty bread you have to nurture it. It takes time, but you don't have to attend to it for the whole time - it can be left to do its own thing.
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-## Further resources+===== Forum ===== 
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 +This topic belongs to the section [[gt:food|Food & drink]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/food). 
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 +===== Further resources =====
  
 - [Craft Bakers Association](https://www.craftbakersassociation.co.uk/) - [Craft Bakers Association](https://www.craftbakersassociation.co.uk/)
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-## Related topics+===== Related topics =====
  
-- [Low-impact food & drink](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/lifo/food) +- [Low-impact food & drink](lifo:food) 
-- [Solar cookers](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/solr/solar_cookers) +- [Solar cookers](solr:solar_cookers) 
-- [Earth ovens](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/eaov/earth_ovens) +- [Earth ovens](eaov:earth_ovens) 
-- [Cheesemaking](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/chee/cheesemaking)+- [Cheesemaking](chee:cheesemaking)
  
-## Specialist curators of this topic+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
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