After the Essene bread fail, I took a reader’s advice and bought a baking stone. Here’s how it went:
Hubby: What did you get in the big box?
Me: A baking stone so I can try that Bible bread again. It’s supposed to work better than a pan.
Him: What did that cost you?
Me: Oh, it was about $35 on ebay.
Him: You paid $35 for a rock? I could have gone out to the yard and gotten you a piece of flagstone for free. (And you thought I was cheap!)
Me: Do you think that would have worked?
Him: Well, they didn’t have commercially made rocks in Bible times, right?
He’s got a point. Maybe I’ll take him up on it and test them side by side, but in the meantime, my baking stone is food grade and isn’t going to leave sandy residue on the bottom of my Essene bread (although a thoroughly scrubbed slab of flagstone might not either). Now to get some wheat sprouting and try that bread again. Well, maybe I’ll wait until after baby arrives since it is a 3 day process. The stone did cook a pretty sweet pizza Saturday. There may be hope for this Essene bread yet.
Keep preparing! Angela
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We bought a baking stone a few years ago. We find that it is great for heating up left over pizza. Heat the oven to 350 degrees and bake the left over pizza for 5 minutes. We actually like the left over pizza better than the first day pizza.
I am pretty sure I saw Alton Brown in an episode of Good Eats use a piece of stone tile from a hardware store as a baking stone… so I guess anything could work, right?
I made soapstone counter tops for our kitchen. I had some left over and made a large pizza stone. Amazing!!! There is a quarry in virginia that you can get a pickup load of soapstone “scraps” for 75 bucks!!
Where is that quarry in Virginia? I have been looking for soapstone.
Thanks
I used to live in the area and I have a friend who pulls soapstone from the river in front of her house!!!! Here’s the local company Walton’s Mountain “neck of the woods”:
http://www.alberenesoapstone.com/