Firstly, did you know you can freeze bread?
You can. Just wrap it in some wax paper (greaseproof paper) and pop it in a plastic bag and put it in. In fact, it freezes beautifully. In fact, it makes sense to make 4-6 loaves at a time because as long as you are turning on your oven, why make only one?
Secondly, and here is a fun fact, this exact reason is why I set up Virtuous Bread in the first place.
I was baking like crazy to use up time in the wee hours while I had a bout of insomnia during a very bad patch at work. (German mother = one cannot just lie there doing nothing.) So, I started to give bread away and I realised that every time I gave bread to somebody they were:
a) amazed that I had made it (not a reflection on me personally, but a statement demonstrating the fact that people think bread baking is somehow magical)
b) called me a genius (I will take that)
c) were incredibly appreciative
d) gave me 100% positive feed back 100% of the time
The world would be a better place if everyone knew how to make something as basic as bread. They would feel more self sufficient and more confident. They would be well fed. They would get positive affirmation from those with whom they shared their gorgeous, delicious, and healthy bread.
So, I started baking and selling bread, teaching others how to bake bread, teaching others how to set up microbakeries so they could bake and sell bread and teach others how to bake bread and teach others how to set up microbakeries.....
And I started to dream about a travelling bread oven, one I could tow around behind me in my little car in order to set up shop in different places just to see what happens, just to build relationships and communities because I discovered, wherever I went, that everyone had a bread story and that people liked to exchange their bread stories and story telling is as old, powerful, and valuable as time itself.
And that is the story of the very very very beginning of the travelling bread oven. And this story is just unfolding and begins here.
