A 70-year-old homesteader bakes traditional bread by candlelight in a clay oven she built by hand. Suzanne Lupien, one of the last true Vermont hill farmers, lives a life free of modern comforts. She uses draft horses, traditional tools, and time honored skills to grow food and bake bread for 20 families in her community.
Follow along as she shares her old world bread baking process from start to finish, and witness how self sufficiency, simple living, and a steadfast appreciation for her craft, shape her life on Harken Farm.
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This is Episode 2 of a series of videos on Suzanne’s life on her small farm nestled in the Vermont Hills.
See Episode 1 Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxvkAA4SKTc
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Help support Suzanne by buying a book or her print artwork
More info on how to purchase here http://instagram.com/harken.farm
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More videos soon to come! Thanks for watching! ❤️
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00:00- 01:47 Introduction + Preparing For The Bake
01:48 – 03:00 Hand Mixing Dough By Candlelight
03:01 – 04:05 Firing The Oven
04:06 – 6:06 About The Clay Oven
06:07 – 07:04 Stoking The Fire
07:05 – 08:11 Gathering Water From the Well
08:12 – 08:46 Punching Down The Dough
08:47 – 09:15 Gathering The Bread Baskets
09:16 – 10:24 Portioning The Dough
10:25 – 12:38 Shaping The Loaves
12:39 – 14:47 Removing Coals From Oven
14:48 – 16:23 Putting Bread Into The Oven
16:24 – 17:48 Farm Chores While Bread Bakes
17:49 – 18:17 Garden Update
18:18 – 19:04 Tending To The Chickens
19:05 – 20:45 Suzanne’s Thoughts On Living
20:46 – 22:14 Taking Bread Out Of The Oven
22:15 – 22:58 A Letter From Julia Child About Suzanne’s Bread
22:59 – 27:48 Reading An Essay About Her Baking Heritage And Inspiration
27:49 – 28:01 Conclusion
28 Comments
great !……." AUVERGNE " (department/country side) is at the south of Paris France where my side grandfather family are natives from !……….I am myself baker and pastry chef from france and got bakery as well to los Angeles , !…..started in 1963 in france city close to Versailles and started working the same way do this Lady 12 hours a day minimum happy time where we were able to do quality bread every day !….SOUVENIRS SOUVENIRS !……… congratulations Lady !…………….👍🌹
by the way, I am still making my own bread (retired ) today the same way by hand at home (Mexico today ) and it's the best bread you can get😛!…….so long!…
A national treasure and hopefully off that day a journey man or woman to pick up the candle anew when this one burns its final flame.
I feel the same, enjoy all the blessings we have surrounding us everywhere 🙏♥️
20:16 on shes soooo right!
Здоровья вам 🎉🎉🎉
What a Beautiful Tribute. Thank you for sharing whats important in life. Do you share your recipe ?? The fact that she had the exact dimensions showed that a little Angel was with her. ❤
I can smell that beautiful bread from here…
Oh how i enjoy watching and learning from beautiful Susanne. She has such an inner peace and calmness.
My heart, my soul, longs to live like this
I'm 55 but let me stay in the corner of the field in an old camper or something with my cats and I'll work with such joy in my heart and it would be like being at Hawthorne Valley again🌱🌻To have my hands in New England soil again and the smell of it! So much richness and life on your home. I'm miss having horses and I miss my chickens. Anyway, I feel hope, I feel like ive been given something I couldnt quite make out and now I can see it again🕉️
The art of living… so profound
Suzanne, that is beautiful bread and a beautiful inspiration for baking it! My Pepe was a bread man from New Bedford, MA but his Mama & Papa were from Quebec too. My Pepe taught me to bake and I have taught my daughter. If you are ever in Belfast, Maine please come share a loaf at our table and we can enjoy stories of our families, and baking! 🙏🙏🏾🙏🏻
How would you keep mice , rats, ants, and insects out of that bread room
Hands of this Lady deserve to be kissed daily!
This what utube was meant for ….. love the bread the thoughts and love that made the bread .. thank you ….
Beautiful boule loafs
What yeast did you use?
She's sweet! Nothing like the aroma of freshly baked bread!
I sure wish I had someone like her near me to teach me old ways. Im going it alone and am always questioning myself. This video is much appreciated. Beautiful life❤
I tried bread making years ago…I leave it to good bakeries now! I do cook a lot from scratch but I don't grow veggies!
Some strong salty butter and some homemade Fig Jam and that would be me made up for the day…..yum yum.
Sou do Brasil vc vende os pães
bakers in the 1850's rarely lived past 40 because of baker's lung
Labor of love.
how lovely
It was a pleasure viewing your beautiful loaves.
Maravilhoso!❤👏
This story near me in Québec makes me a subscriber
I love your wisdom, life and ability to do so much as you do.