BREAD BAKING MADE EASY!

Saturday, April 23, 2022, 1:30-3:30 p.m., local author Loretta Sorensen will present a bread-baking workshop, “Bread Baking Made Easy!” at the Yankton Community Library.

The presentation – open to the public at no cost – will demonstrate how Sorensen uses a digital thermometer in combination with a bread machine to easily produce high-rising loaves of bread and sweet rolls. Sorensen, a longtime journalist, book author, and publisher, has developed two books about how this process has made it possible for her to make all her family’s bread products. She will be signing both “Secrets to Baking Your Best Bread Ever,” and her recently released “30 Dakota Prairie Bread Recipes and the Art and Science Behind Making Them” at the workshop.

“When you let a bread machine do the mixing and kneading work, you can have beautiful, fresh bread within two hours,” Sorensen says. “I don’t bake bread in a bread machine, but I rely on it for a hands-free way to develop my dough. It’s been four years since I learned how to use both the thermometer and bread machine in my process, and I haven’t purchased bread since then.”

Sorensen will share samples of six different kinds of bread featured in her latest book and will explain some of the details she’s learned along her bread-baking journey.