Canadian Musings

I'm getting old. I remember a simple loaf of bread costing about $.89. But I don't think that was that long ago, maybe three or four years.

This week, I had to pay $1.59 for the crappiest loaf of white bread the store sells. They wanted $2.69 for another loaf with plenty of preservatives and a "freshness guarantee".

Enough is enough, I sez to myself.

So I bought myself a breadmaker. Nice little machine.

And I've learned that the shelf life of flour is probably something shorter than the 15 years I'd had my previous bag of flour: The first attempt at baking resulted in a pile of goop instead of dough. New bag of flour, nice dough. Mmmm.