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ZNPaaneah · 04-03-2011, 05:16 PM

I have hesitated to enter the fray for too long. I used to bake bread, not white flour bread, but pan au levain. First of all, the flavor, texture and quality of bread is all about the fermentation process. The entire concept of bread of life is completely wrapped up with leaven.

2nd, you don't need to add leaven to the bread to have leavened bread. You use a wooden mixing bowl. You scrape it clean when you are done but you don't wash it with soap and water. Scraping it clean is sufficient. If you read the account in Exodus it doesn't say that the unleavened bread didn't have leaven in it, that would be impossible (yeast is in the air, especially in a kitchen that bakes bread). It says that they baked it before it had time to rise because they were in a rush. By mixing the flour in the mixing bowl it would have gotten the leaven.

3rd, if the seed is "the word" in the beginning of the chapter, why wouldn't the flour made from the wheat also be the word? Leaven is a living organism that eats the flour. First it eats all the sugar (carbs), that is why there are two risings. It is in the second rising that you get the fermentation. We are like little leaven consuming the word of God and transforming it into bread. The Lord said "my Body is the bread". Please note, without leaven it is not bread.

4th the Leaven of the Pharisees is the product of their chewing on the word. They teach the Bible, but the Lord warned the disciples to beware of that teaching.

04-03-2011, 05:16 PM	#76
ZNPaaneah Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 7,105	Re: The introduction of leaven I have hesitated to enter the fray for too long. I used to bake bread, not white flour bread, but pan au levain. First of all, the flavor, texture and quality of bread is all about the fermentation process. The entire concept of bread of life is completely wrapped up with leaven. 2nd, you don't need to add leaven to the bread to have leavened bread. You use a wooden mixing bowl. You scrape it clean when you are done but you don't wash it with soap and water. Scraping it clean is sufficient. If you read the account in Exodus it doesn't say that the unleavened bread didn't have leaven in it, that would be impossible (yeast is in the air, especially in a kitchen that bakes bread). It says that they baked it before it had time to rise because they were in a rush. By mixing the flour in the mixing bowl it would have gotten the leaven. 3rd, if the seed is "the word" in the beginning of the chapter, why wouldn't the flour made from the wheat also be the word? Leaven is a living organism that eats the flour. First it eats all the sugar (carbs), that is why there are two risings. It is in the second rising that you get the fermentation. We are like little leaven consuming the word of God and transforming it into bread. The Lord said "my Body is the bread". Please note, without leaven it is not bread. 4th the Leaven of the Pharisees is the product of their chewing on the word. They teach the Bible, but the Lord warned the disciples to beware of that teaching.