Dry Goods

Bill and I just went to JAR wholesale bakers supply in Lincoln RI. We got 2 pounds of dry yeast for the price of those tiny jars in the supermarket! We also got 50 pounds of fresh King Arthur bread flour and 50 pounds of old fashioned rolled oats and 50 pounds of medium grind whole wheat flour, all for half the supermarket price. The supermarket flour tastes like a supermarket; nobody bakes except at holidays, so the flour is stale! Of course you need a place to safely store these quantities. Once a cute little mouse ate a hole though our bag of oats and ate until it died. Now we put our flour and grain into huge food tins originally intended for dry dog food (free from Eukanuba!) and keep them all in a cold cellar room. We also got a gallon jug of molasses and ten pounds of hulled raw sunflower seeds. The seeds will get stored in the chest freezer downstairs. We're thinking of getting the wholesale raisins, but 30 pounds might be too much even for us.