December 🥖 schedule

updates on bread and donations for this month

Good morning bread friends!

It was a true delight to do two bake days for you all last week. I loved hearing stories of how sourdough made it onto your tables for Thanksgiving.

Today I have a few brief updates for my bake schedule for December.

I’ll be baking this weekend & also next weekend.

Then I’ll be taking the last two weeks of December off.

This means a few things:

1. If you want bread for the whole month, you’re welcome to order extra loaves this week or next. Sourdough keeps brilliantly in the freezer. I prefer to slice it before I freeze it. Then it is easy to toast slices as needed. I know some of you keep whole loaves in the freezer. If you do that, then you can just thaw a loaf in the fridge for a few hours, and then revive the whole loaf in the oven on ~350 for maybe 15 minutes.
   

2. Bread Club will be back in January! Since I’m only baking for two weekends in December, I’m going to pause Bread Club this month, in order to let members order however many loaves they’d like to for this week and next week. When Bread Club resumes the first weekend of January, I anticipate offering not only a monthly pre-order, but a monthly subscription. Stay tuned!
   

3. With December being a shortened month for baking, that means it is also a shortened month for donations. I’ve decided to keep donating to Centro for two extra weeks. As I was considering what to donate to for December, I saw this story in Madison365 about Centro renaming their popular student scholarship program after beloved Latina leader Lucía Núñez who passed away recently. I knew Lucía primarily when she was serving as the City of Madison’s director of the Department of Civil Rights. Our paths overlapped while I was on the Madison City Council, where I was constantly impressed by her thoughtful leadership. But she had plenty of leadership roles in Madison, including serving as the Executive Director of Centro Hispano for several years. Honoring her memory by donating December’s profits to Centro’s scholarship program feels like a wonderful thing to do. Thank you for being a part of supporting this scholarship program at Centro that opens doors to higher education for Latine, immigrant, and under-resourced students, ensuring that financial obstacles do not stand in the way of dreams.

As always… thank you for being a part of this community!
I’m really looking forward to making you all some more bread this week :)

Cheers,
Mo Cheeks