This is the Breads Page, Saint John Valley Bread Edited 12 May 2015 Home Bakery Benchmarks Our Breads Nos pains Bread Images About Us Our Equipment Site Map Sources - Digital Sources - Printed ''The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.'' M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992 Food Reference.com <<pain de labeur, pain de saveur>> (proverbes et dictons de pain) PANDARUS. Well, I have told you enough of this; for my part, I'll not meddle nor make no farther. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. TROILUS. Have I not tarried? PANDARUS. Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. TROILUS. Have I not tarried? PANDARUS. Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. TROILUS. Still have I tarried. PANDARUS. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips. Act 1, scene 1, before Priam's Palace, ''Troilus and Cressida'', William Shakespeare, 1602, electronic edition, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1790/pg1790.html Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river - There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. R L Stevenson, stanza 1, ''The Vagabond'' |
Pains de tradition françaises | Pain complet | Pain brioché Egg bread d Saint John Valley Breads. The baker is Dustin Cutler, who appenticed in the bakery, before going on to establish his bakery,"Normal Bread", in Geneva New York. Upper left: cutting the loaves on the loader; upper right: unloading the left aisle of the top deck. Photos 28 August 2004 by Richard Rice Full rack of Saint John Valley breads for freezer orders, 1 November 2011 Saint John Valley breads on cooling rack, 25 July 2012
The
Saint John Valley Bread
is the bakery's
signature loaf, popular alike amongst Islanders and people from away.
Created
for the first time, at about three o'clock in the morning, in July of
1990, this loaf
was meant to take advantage of the fine, organic grains the baker
had stumbled upon in Saint John, from the then recently
established Speerville Mills, located above Florenceville on the
western slope of the Saint John valley: hence the name of the bread. By
type, this is a pain
de maison, made
in the spirit of a pain
de campagne; it
features flour that approximates a stoneground flour texture, a mixture
of unbleached all- purpose white, stoneground and organic wheat and rye
flours. The dough invariably incorporates a significant
pre-fermented portion, and bulk fermentation is on the long side. The
grain mixture
varies according to what is on hand, and has almost always comprised organic cereals. The main components are
flax seed, corn meal, hulled millet, and heavy doses of cracked wheat
and rye meal. Other grains we use from time to time are cracked barley,
buckwheat meal and oatmeal. We continue
to
use Speerville grains.
Speerville Mill with founder in foreground, Stu Fleischaker, in the beginning days, probably before 1990. © 2015 North Head Bakery, 199 Route 776, Grand Manan,NB, E5G 1A4 506-662-8862 |