Giving Bread as a Gift

No one need be told that a hot loaf of bread fresh frm the oven makes a wonderful present, both for giving and for receiving.  If the loaf has to wait a day or even more, choose bread that keeps especially well, and store it carefully.  If possible, you could refresh it by wrapping a damp towel and warming it briefly before you hand it over.  We keep a supply of new, clean paper bags for wrapping fresh gift bread, because if a hot loaf is put in plastic, the bread will 'sweat" and be soggy, or worse, moldy, when the otherwise lucky receive goes to eat it.  The loaf pictured has been cooled before putting in in the plastic bag.

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