Public Library Kitchen

The kids were so ready to learn. Adorable. Many of them are from Senegal which I learned was a place that ate lots of FRENCH bread. They loved it when I told them yeast is ALIVE!!! And they could punch down the risen dough the next day! They were age 13 and we all had fun and laughed a lot.

The King Arthur recipe for the kids was good too. Whole wheat 3c and white 3c and 1/4 c vegetable oil and 1/4 c sugar and they added cinnamon and sugar the next day for rolling. They made braided breads and knots and cinnamon buns.

I would love to teach them pretzels and semolina pizza crust.

My home baking recipe is sourdough starter and Bob's Red Mill ten grain cereal and cornmeal and oats mixed with 5 pounds of King Arthur bread flour. We live on bread for every meal! We freeze the extra loaves and make toast daily. The milled grain flavors come out when toasted.

In a perfect world I'd put a restaurant oven in the public library for teaching Woonsocket citizens how to bake and cook.