Fourneau Recipes — Fermenting

Fourneau is a family business and this recipe is brought to you by me, Caroline, the youngest Burdett sibling. I took our Mom’s Signature Rye Bread recipe and put my own spin on it, adding some medicinal fungi and antioxidants. I love this particular loaf because it includes dried elderberries, which add an almost sweet flavor to the bread. In addition to the flavor, elderberries are full of antioxidants. In fact, Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” called the elder tree his “medicine chest.” In folk medicine today, the elderberry is considered one of the world’s most healing plants. They are...

Dried figs and crushed fennel are a marriage made in bread heaven ...