``Bread is for the laughter of the workers... Send out your bread upon the surface of the waters, for in the course of many days you will find it again.'' (Ecclesiastes 10:19; 11:1)
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Easy 3½ Hour Yeast Bread
I don't know if this is right for you. Everyone knows there are only 25 hours in a day. But just what do we do with all of this free time? Making use of newfound extra time to make bread is a wise choice. I recently saw bread dough double in volume in 15 minutes, but usually it happens more slowly than that. Although this yeast bread may not be quick, I have tried very hard to make it easy. It may be eaten hot, in which case it may well fall apart, but I believe you will find the loaf firms very nicely and holds its shape well if eaten while still elastic. All ingredients are organic and salt is sea salt, although rock salt is acceptable.
This recipe has grown out of our experience in making yeast bread for more than 28 years.
First, allow me to say that bread is not a food for people who are ill. Calcium deficiency causes the stomach to reduce its production of stomach acid, and this leads to improper digestion of solid food. In my most humble opinion, the food most acceptable to the stomach of a sick person is fruit juice, salad, and vitamin and mineral supplements high in calcium and magnesium-- in short: liquid, fibreless food with highly absorbable calcium and magnesium and enormous vitamin and mineral content. It it very hard to overdose on vitamins and minerals. Once a person is feeling a little better, goat milk is acceptable. Goat cheese is even better, because the bacteria required to help absorb the food in the intestine is present. Supplements are not sufficient because the enzymes contained in "live" food (fresh fruit and vegetables) are essential ingredients for digestion and vigourous health. Cooking and pasteurizing destroy vitamins and enzymes and should be avoided as much as possible. Goat milk when pasteurized contains calcium but lacks the necessary enzyme content or the vital factors needed to digest it. Enzymes may assist by reducing complex molecules to simpler forms prior to absorption in the intestine. Saliva contains amylase, an enzyme used to assist digestion of mouth-watering carbohydrates or when chewed properly.
What many people fail to realize is that bacteria is necessary for the absorption of food in the intestine. Yes salmonella, e. coli, streptococci and a plethora of other `deadly' bacteria are present in massive quantities in the intestine as essential absorption helpers!!! Fat people starve while they gain weight, and this little known fact, of which I am seemingly the originator, is due to the body's well-known capacity to store fat coupled with the lack of vital calcium in the person's system. I maintain that in the absence of crucial calcium, the body stores fat as a maladaptive response, as the reduction in stomach acid required to preserve the precious stomach lining because of the absence of acid-quenching calcium in the tissue may also be maladaptive.
Milk is good for the stomach lining, as has been common nonsense, but for a very different reason. The lining needs to be rich in calcium in its very makeup!
Very healthy people may eat meat whenever they feel a craving for it. Beef, while potentially very harmful, has a wealth of nutrients contained within it. Organic beef, like organic fruits and vegetables, is free of pesticides. Of course, pork and chicken are available as organic product also. If you haven't tasted it, believe me they are great. Besides being free of pesticides though, organic products are free of genetic engineering. Organic products are produced using no chemical fertilizers. The product rots more slowly (but remember rot is bacteria-related) and is stronger in many ways, including flavour and nutrient concentration. I am not a health nut. In truth, I eat what I like. But when a person feels fantastic, they eat different foods from when they feel terrible. The Bible says the man who is weak eats vegetables, but the strong man eats everything. So this bread is for only the strongest and the healthiest individuals. For the others, I encourage you: Get your health, either get it for the first time or get it back again, and this time keep it!
A note on food supplements: many companies lie about ingredients. The reason I know this is from experience. Some products work, while others do not. Apart from coral calcium, I use calcium and magnesium in the form of citrates, because I have found the citrate to be a particularly absorbable form. The citrate is the ion found in citrus fruit, acidic only before it enters the body, where it forms alkali salts and thereby helps to make the body less acidic. I feel compelled to mention brand names only because Bob Barefoot's coral calcium saved my life, and because Natural Factors calcium and magnesium citrates and chewable vitamin C greatly enhanced my overall health and kept me on the road to even more vigourous health. In short, they work! Thanks to everyone who helped me obtain life's vital factors.
This recipe has been adapted and developed over 28 years from the books Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and the recipe `Perfect White Bread' from the New Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens. Some nutritional information may also be found in the book Diet for a Small Planet, but not the nutritional facts presented here.
Place 3 Cups of distilled water into a one quart saucepan, put the lid on and place on medium heat.
1 packet traditional active dry yeast (I have always used Fleischmann's)
1 tsp organic honey
¼ Cup 110°F distilled water (no warmer)
2 Cups distilled water, hot to nearly boiling
2 tsp sea salt
6 T organic honey
2 T organic butter
1 T organic butter for greasing pans and hands
1 T organic butter for buttering top of loaves
1 lb organic butter for buttering bread :)
6 Cups organic white bread flour
``Current research indicates vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing 17 varieties of cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects and periodontal disease.''
http://www.vitamindcouncil.com/
``In the field of medicine in the year 2006 I have ascertained that:
1) 60% of diagnoses are wrong
2) 60% of the general public are constipated (anal retentive)
3) 60% of patients may be cured by supplementing food with calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D
May it further be stated that in the field of health I personally believe:
1) If you look for trouble you will find it
2) Degenerative disease is caused more by deficiency than by any other factor, and deficiency is rooted in a food production system which uses genetic engineering, pesticide use, and chemical fertilizer (mass production methods)
3) Healthy food is only produced by organic methods. When you take sufficient daily solid food supplements containing absorbable calcium and other vital factors, you can eat what you want.''
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