Home made bread does not use any unnatural preservatives, except sourdough which is a natural preservative. Sourdough unlocks many hidden nutrients in whole grains which commercial breads do not. It also tastes better.

Happy Bread-ing

SndBrian

Hi Oskar270.

The basic ingredients for a good hand crafted bread contain flour (unbleached and unbromated), yeast (or a natural levain), salt and water.  Good, natural ingredients.

Now, here's a list of ingredients from the label of a commercial whole wheat bread:

Whole wheat flour, water, wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% of less of: soybean oil, salt, molasses, yeast, mono and diglycerides, exthoxylated mono and diglycerides, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium iodate, calcium dioxide), datem, calcium sulfate, vinegar, yeast nutrient (ammonium sulfate), extracts of malted barley and corn, dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, calcium propionate 

The only thing you'll be missing is all the chemicals.  

Thank you for taken the time to educate me

SNdBrian wrote:

". . . sourdough which is a natural preservative . . ."

I have never read this before. How long does a sourdough bread stay fresh?

I have always avoided experimenting with sourdough as I am delighted with the taste of Cook's Nearly No Knead Bread.

But your news is tempting me . . .

I gave my sister a loaf of cinnamon bread on Jan 2 this year. She forgot about it and it as in its plastic bag until the end of February. It was dry but she reports she toasted it and it was delicious.

I am surprised it didn't mold but it was cold and I had bagged it right after it cooled so it wasn't handled and contaminated by mold spores.

My question is "How do you forget a loaf of homemade bread?"