“Bread for the Birds”
Dead Housekeeping, August 29, 2018
Bread and water – two things we cannot do without in life. Let’s make bread: white, wheat, oatmeal, even pumpernickel with a hint of chocolate, or rye with the bitter touch of caraway.
Stir together the flour, water, salt, oil. Whatever else it calls for. Check your recipe, mix, knead, let it rise.
Punch it down, shape it, bake it. See, I have it all written down for the different kinds right here.
Then set out the butter and the strawberry jam. They’ll always eat their fill.
Sometimes you make so much that even after everyone eats it for several days (toast for breakfast, ham sandwiches for lunch, butter-bread with soup for supper) the last pieces go stale. Then it sits on the counter, a few slices in a bag until, finally, there’s a little spot of mold on the last piece.
You might be inclined to throw that last slice away when it turns green. But don’t do it. One must never throw away bread or waste water. Bread is the staff of life. Never forget that. And never throw away even that slice of days-old bread that cannot be toasted or rejuvenated as bread pudding. Put it out for the birds, but never ever throw it in the trash.
We waste too much these days. We really must be more careful.
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