Baking Bread in a Pandemic

Eat it, don’t waste it! Make crackers.

Patricia Davis
Simply Living and Living Simply
8 min readAug 5, 2020

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It’s the pandemic; you can’t get bread or active dry yeast in the store. As a result, you have been creating a brand new sourdough starter from scratch to make your own bread, and you have all this discard that you throw away.

What a waste! But you have to feed it, and it’s not strong enough to use yet. What to do — What to do!

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Patricia Davis
Simply Living and Living Simply

Pat blogs about food, sustainability, and living simply. Sourdough is a particular passion. She also writes historical fiction with social justice themes.