On Leaven

Kitchen Meditations with Kendall Vanderslice

Have you ever carried a 50 pound bag of flour? There’s a special trick to it: you have to pick it up from underneath and flip it over your shoulder, otherwise it’s too unwieldy to handle. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like yeast that a woman mixed into three measures of flour until all of it was leavened. Three measures of flour is just a bit more flour than one of those 50 pound bags, which means this woman was leavening a whole lot of dough. In today’s episode of Kitchen Meditations, On Leaven, we’re going to reflect on what it means for the Kingdom of Heaven to be like yeast.

Learn more about Aminah’s work: http://robdunnlab.com/people/aminah-al-attas-bradford/
Learn more about the sourdough microbiome: https://asm.org/Articles/2020/June/The-Sourdough-Microbiome
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-sauerkraut-in-a-mason-jar-193124