DECEMBER 23 • 2021 | 21
Here’s the recipe to volunteer
your time:
1. Go to https://
kneadedwithlove.com.
2. Click on the “Baking
Dates” dropdown tab to
commit to one or both of the
Fridays offered per month.
You can bake two or four
loaves per date.
3. A designated Kneaded
by Love home in the area will
be provided for bread drop-
offs.
4. To ensure freshness,
breads are delivered to
pantries the next day
(Saturday).
5. Email questions to:
kneadedwithlove1@gmail.
com. Follow Kneaded with
Love on Facebook and
Instagram.
How to Volunteer
Hands Food Pantry in Royal Oak and
Second New Hope Missionary Baptist
Church in Royal Oak Township.
The goal is to greatly expand the
number of food pantries benefiting from
the bread deliveries, but first things first.
While the list of volunteers has grown
to more than 70, the consistency of
participation can wane, leaving holes in
the schedules for committed bakers.
“We have one core group of people,”
Barbara said, “and it really hasn’t grown.
Everybody wants to donate money, but
we’re not set up for charitable giving at
this time.”
In other words, this grassroots effort
can’t except “dough,” but they sure could
use help kneading it.
Licensing issues, certification and
lack of commercial kitchen accessibility
because of COVID has truly made this a
homemade effort. “All it really only takes
is about a four-hour commitment, once or
twice a month, from the comfort of one’s
own kitchen,” Denise said.
Through research and tweaking of
existing recipes found on the internet,
Kneaded with Love has created two breads
that are uniquely theirs. Volunteer bakers
are provided a specific list of ingredients
to purchase while the three founders
of Kneaded with Love cover the cost of
bags, labels and decorative ribbon for
packaging.
And they’ve gone to great lengths to
make the whole process, from start to
finish, as easy and simple as possible.
Written recipes on their website are
accompanied by video presentations,
providing step-by-step instructions, from
preparation to packaging, for the hearty,
whole grain/whole wheat, no sugar added,
high-protein bread choices.
Said Barbara of the final product,
“Open Hands Food Pantry once told
me that people are so appreciative of
how wonderful our breads are that
they choose our loaves over the store-
bought manufactured brands also
made available to them.”
They say life is easier when you
don’t have “too many cooks in the
kitchen,” but too many bakers?
“Kneadless” to say, that’s a problem
Kneaded with Love will gladly
welcome, especially at this giving time
of year.
Lots of loaves
made with
lots of love
Kneaded with
Love volunteer
baker Jennifer
LoPatin
ALAN MUSKOVITZ
KNEADED WITH LOVE