Celebrate the surprisingly joyous intersection of baking and learning
in a family cookbook from the bestselling author of Bread Baking for
Beginners
Bonnie Ohara is an entrepreneurial baker and author of the bestseller,
Bread Baking for Beginners, which answered so many readers' needs for
a baking bible during the pandemic. She is also a homeschooling mother
of three, a naturally gifted teacher with a keen and creative take on
how to turn a practical activity, like baking, into a valuable
educational experience. Which is the unique promise of Let's Bake
Bread!--a cookbook for families with kids ages three and up filled
with delicious, foundational, foolproof recipes for baking that double
as teaching opportunities for everything from organization and sensory
awareness to history, science, math, and nutrition.
Starting with a soft, enriched and very forgiving "cloud" dough,
Let's Bake Bread! coordinates both its recipes and lessons for a
baker's age and experience, with annotations for the parents helping in
the kitchen. Kids three and up will quickly be making Snail Rolls, On
the Run Energy Buns, and Fluffy French Milk Bread--and Raspberry Jam to
go with it--all the while improving their fine motor skills and learning
organization and patience. Within a few years, they'll be tackling a
leaner "adventure" dough--perfect for pizza, focaccia, and
flatbreads--with lessons that focus on the seasons and include weather
observation and journaling. Next up, breads around the world--pita,
naan, tortillas, and more--with insights on history and culture,
culminating, for kids twelve and up, in the holy grail for all home
bakers, sourdough.
Baking with your kids, even just a couple of times a month, instills
lessons in patience and mindfulness while modeling critical thinking,
creativity, and curiosity. Not to mention teaching, say, division and
multiplication in such tangible ways that they'll stick forever. And, at
the end of the day, there's delicious bread to enjoy! What could be
better?
