Bread Flour
Bread flour is one of my favorite things to buy. It is at once a somewhat specialized ingredient, as well as an uber-common consumable. We all eat bread, but very few of us bake it. Buying bread flour makes me feel competent, like a homesteader, ready to salt some pork, repair the windmill, or weld the tractor back together. One of my least favorite things to pay for is hotel rooms and restaurant meals. Rooms, meals, carnival rides, and movie tickets are all gone as soon as y