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A Field Guide to Borealis Breads - Page 1
The following is a guide to the breads made at Borealis. It will help you distinguish one from the other as you look at the loaves and gives some idea of each bread's character. The Guide also includes a list of the ingredients, more remarkable for what is not in each loaf than what is. Note there are no trans fats, no preservatives, no sweeteners. This is real bread made by hand, real food from Maine.

Aroostook Wheat is the pride of the Borealis fleet. The organic whole wheat is grown in Aroostook County in Maine. You can recognize Aroostook Wheat by its rich brown color and its three diagonal cuts. The ingredients are Maine organic whole wheat flour, water, whole wheat starter* and sea salt. Use Aroostook Wheat for a table bread, sandwiches or anything else. It's hearty and nutritious, real bread from Maine.

Apple Cranberry is dark, crusty and studded with bits of dried fruit. It has one cut along its length which tends to open the loaf to reveal its insides as it's baked. It's made with unbleached wheat flour, water, dried unsulfured apples, starter*, dried sweetened cranberries, sea salt and cinnamon. The fruit makes this bread sweet and flavorful, perfect for breakfast and afternoon tea.

Cinnamon Raisin is a bread that invites you to breakfast and can make lunch a memorable meal. It is loaded with raisins and breathes cinnamon as you cut it. Like its cousin apple cranberry, it is cut along its length and reveals its inner self as it is baked. The ingredients are wheat flour, water, starter, yeast, cinnamon, sea salt, sugar and raisins. Cinnamon Raisin is an old favorite, back by popular demand.

*Starter is unbleached wheat flour, water and wild yeast. It is used instead of commercial yeast to leaven the loaf and make it rise. That’s what makes it naturally leavened bread, bread made the way it was before the Industrial Revolution. Starter, like soup, improves with age and was often passed down through generations. Borealis uses two starters: One is 13 years old and was started by Jim Amaral. The other is nearly 40 years old and came from that traditional source, a grandmother.