Waiting on my Prince Doughboy!

Hi! My name is Pamela!  I'm on the cleaning crew for the bakery team, so that means, I go digging for the dropped chocolate chips that roll into hidden spaces in the bakery. Washing dishes, scrubbing floors..... sometimes I feel like Cinderella waiting for my Prince Doughboy to come and rescue me. It's been fun and a learning experience working with a group that are of a younger generation than me. I enjoyed being the test taster on occasion so they could get my opinion on bakery goods! Yummy!

The Early Bird

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! When most people grudgingly roll over at 8:30 a.m. to turn off their alarms, I have already been up and about for hours. It is a common misconception that the early bird gets the worm. In actuality, the early bird makes the bread.

Hi, my name is Erin Smith and I work in the Terrier Bakery as a member of the bread team. Even though I have only been baking bread for about five months, baking has become a normal, and even pleasurable, part of my weekly routine. Baking bread does, however, start to take control of your life. I doubt that it is normal for teenage girls to excitedly leave a party because their poolish is ready to be made into dough. I don’t mind that taking both of Ella Kirk’s classes, “The Art of Making Dough” and “The Transformation of Dough into Sweet Success”, has driven me a little bread crazy. There is something special about being alone in the kitchen, elbow deep in bread dough, kneading and shaping a mound of pale white nothing into the day’s delicious baked goods all before the rest of Hiram is stirring. I always feel a warm wave of accomplishment run through me when I leave the bakery knowing that I have gotten a lot of work done when my day has just begun.