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Ongoing: Bake Along with Flour Power

Nov 22, 2021 | Events, Flour Power, In The News

Whether you’re a seasoned baker or new to bread, we invite you to join our effort to help feed our community delicious and nutritious food through our Flower Power initiative.

Flour Power is a way members of the community can provide home-baked loaves of bread to local food pantries. The goal is to nourish and bring joy to people through a personal touch. Each cycle of Flour Power provides loaves baked by the community to pantries like the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead and CAST North Fork in Southold. Baking cycles take place every 2 weeks.

Anyone can register to bake. Simply sign up and we will send you the recipe that is for 4 loaves; each baker keeps one loaf and donates three. There are designated drop-off points on the North and South Forks (when you register you will receive dates and locations for drop-off.) Please keep in mind that our locations are expanding as we grow.

LEARN MORE & SIGN UP TODAY!

Baking Bread and Feeding the Community with Members Nancy and Ralph Reinertsen

Sep 27, 2021 | Flour Power, In The News

For Nancy DePas Reinertsen and Ralph Reinertsen, baking with Flour Power, Slow Food East End’s community powered baking co-operative, has been their way to connect to their community through food. They’ve been baking bread loaves every other week since the program began this past spring as a way for members of the community to provide home-baked loaves of bread to local food pantries.

Nancy and Ralph were both teachers before recently retiring, and they’ve both seen firsthand how many people in our communities can use a little extra help getting food on the table. Baking her four loaves of bread has become a regular weekend ritual, but it’s also become about more than just feeding others.

The way it works is this: anyone with a few hours to spare and an oven to bake can sign up to bake bread. Chef David Chaffin, board member and experienced baker, developed a simple, healthy recipe that everyone can bake. As Nancy says: “It’s a foolproof recipe.” Made with half whole wheat and half all-purpose flour, the bread has honey and molasses in it which not only add a delicious flavor but keep the bread shelf-stable – so it’s available to anyone coming to the food pantry even a few days after it’s been delivered.

“It nourishes the soul because I feel so good about doing this, and it nourishes the body,” she says, adding: “My house smells like heaven!”

Nancy has been baking for years with a sourdough starter she created 20 years ago using East End air to bring it to life. But she doesn’t need that to bake these loaves, and you don’t need to be an experienced baker to take part in Flour Power.

After watching the how-to video, and with the recipe in hand, home bakers across the East End of Long Island bake four loaves of bread every other Monday. Three of them will be picked up by a volunteer and brought to pantries like the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead, and the fourth is for the baker to eat!

“Flour Power is a really wonderful way to connect to people,” says Nancy. We agree, and we think you will too. We hope you’ll join us in keeping the program going. Register today for the next baking cycle. We’ll provide the recipe; you’ll get to spend a few hours doing kneading bread dough and helping feed your community.

Flour Power

Jul 13, 2021 | Flour Power

FLOUR POWER

We Invite You to Join Slow Food East End’s
Community Powered Baking Co-Operative

Flour Power Needs You!

Flour Power is a way members of the community can provide home-baked loaves of bread to local food pantries. The goal is to nourish and bring joy to people through a personal touch. Since our launch in 2021, we have been providing to the North Fork Apostolate in Riverhead, CAST North Fork, in Southold, Heart of the Hamptons in Southampton, and Springs Food Pantry in East Hampton.

How it all Started

Slow Food East End started 2021 with an ambitious agenda. Confident that our school gardens project was up and running — there are now more than 30 (!) on the East End — we contemplated what to accomplish next in the new world of a pandemic.

Last year we were able to give grants to food producers affected by the pandemic. Read about our partners in that effort. We also donated to food pantries from Riverhead to Greenport and Montauk.

In 2021 our former chair, Pennie Schwartz, wanted to include more of the community in our work: the result was our Feed the Forks initiative, Flour Power – It’s the yeast we can do (yes we like our puns here at SFEE).

“Nothing smells and tastes like love quite like a home-baked bread,” says Pennie, “and it’s a great way to actively involve our members to create the smell, feel, and taste of bread, which nourishes the body and soul.”

How Does Flour Power Work?

 

I’d Like to Help But I’m Not a Baker

David Chaffin, ex-board member and an experienced baker most recently from Amy’s Bread, a renowned bakery in NYC has worked hard to develop a simple, healthy recipe that everyone can bake, regardless of experience, and his short video below demonstrates each phase of the bread-making process — And it’s fun!!

As part of the Flour Power community,  you’re not alone, we would love to connect you with a baking buddy, who you can call and ask questions. We invite you to also join our Facebook Page where you can connect with other bakers in the community.

WATCH BAKING DEMO HERE

Join us —  the baking hands of our community

Please select the food pantry you would like to bake for below!
I'd Like to Bake for North Fork Spanish Apostolate

Drop-off locations:

SR’s of St. Joseph Villa – 81 Lynn Ave Hampton Bays

Southold – 90 Bay Haven Lane, Southold (1st house on the right)

I'd Like to Bake for CAST North Fork

Drop-off location:

CAST building in Southold – 53930 Main Rd, Southold, NY 11971

I'd Like to Bake for Heart of the Hamptons

Drop-off locations:

Heart of the Hamptons – 168 Hill street in Southampton

I'd Like to Bake for Springs Food Pantry

Drop-off locations:

Springs Food Pantry – 5 Old Stone Hwy, East Hampton, NY 11937

2024 Bake Dates:

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What Is Flour Power?

May 5, 2021 | Flour Power, In The News

Flour Power is a way members of the community can provide home baked loaves of bread to local food pantries. The idea is to bake four loaves of bread. Keep one for yourself, the other three are donated to the food insecure. The goal is to nourish and bring joy to people through a personal touch.

How Does It Work?

Anyone can register to bake. Simply sign up and we will send the recipe and ingredients list to you. The recipes will make 4 loaves and the plan is for each baker to keep one loaf and donate the remaining 3. There are designated drop off points on the North and South Forks and when you register you will receive dates and locations for drop offs. Loaves will be picked up, packaged and dropped off to participating pantries. Register for this great program here.

I‘d Like to Help But I’m Not a Baker

David Chaffin, board member, is an experienced baker most recently from Amy’s Bread, a renowned bakery. He has worked hard to develop a simple, healthy recipe that everyone can bake, regardless of experience. And it’s fun!!

How Can I Learn More?

A short video has been created with David demonstrating how to bake the bread. He demonstrates each phase of the bread baking process. This is a perfect preparation for your own baking and it can be rewatched at any time. Watch Demo

A Final Thought

This program can only continue with the helping hands of our community. Won’t you please give it a try? Also, if you have friends or contacts that might be interested please forward this information to them. Imagine a network of people showing care and connection through food? That is truly Slow Food!!

Many thanks for your continued support.