Breadmaking for Health and Happiness
March 26, 2023 | Source: RNZ | by Sunday Morning
For the last 28 years, north Canterbury baker Rachel Scott has carefully made around 400 loaves of bread every week. While it’s “slightly absurd” to be so hands-on, she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I know exactly what’s gone on with each loaf. And if I’m putting my name on it, I just want to get confidence that there’s consistency and quality. And I sleep well at night with knowing that.”
While she initially wanted to be an architect or an artist, Scott first started making sourdough at home while working in kitchens in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She didn’t have any formal culinary training, but influential chefs Angela Dwyer and Alistair Little both saw her potential.
“I was in London for about six years… [Angela] loved Kiwis as workers in kitchens, and just let me learn. I fell in love with bread quite early.”