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Ideas/Advice for large quantity baking

Eric and Johanna Bakken <eric@thebakkens.net>
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:49:47 -0500
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I've been approached to bake for a health food store.  They have a small 
cafe and adequate space to bake.  As I'm considering how all this could 
work, I have a few questions for you all.

To begin with, I'd just bring in my 325 watt Kitchen Aid, which I usually 
stuff with 8 cups of flour max.  To make baking worth my time and the 
store's I think that I'd need to make at least 10 loaves of bread.  At 3 
cups of flour for a 1 1/2 pound loaf, that's 4 batches.

Advice on baking 4 batches in a row?  Keeping things organized?  Preparing 
ahead of time.  (I am trying to fit it into a 3-4 block of time) I can just 
picture the shuffling around.  Maybe it will be best, I don't know...any 
thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Next question:  I want to do a run through after you all weigh in on this, 
so I bought a cheapo bag of flour from Costco (I usually bake with fresh 
ground wheat).

Since I never bake with straight white flour, I don't have a recipe I like 
or know...Does anyone have a SIMPLE white bread recipe they like and use often.

Thanks all,

Eric Bakken
Cedarkirk Camp and Conference Center
Lithia, FL