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Wave Hill Breads
196 Danbury Road
Wilton, Connecticut 06897
Margaret Sapir and Mitchell Rapoport, Breadmakers
(203) 762 9595
Margaret Sapir and Mitch Rapoport were determined to learn how to make the bread they tasted first at a restaurant in Stowe, Vermont. After more than 20 years in corporate life, they apprenticed to the baker, Gerard Rubaud, and adapted his recipe.
Since Autumn, 2005, when WAVE HILL BREADS started delivering bread to farmers markets, they have made only one type, a three-grain French country loaf ("Pain de Campagne"). Their breads are crafted by hand using age-old French methods. They are made from artisan flour, organic spelt and organic rye berries that they mill for each batch, sea salt, water, and a pinch of yeast. The "pre-fermentation" is mixed and left to develop for six hours before it is incorporated into the dough. The dough is put in specially-made maple and oak troughs to ferment once before it is rounded and shaped. It then proofs again before baking. The steaming jets in the oven help form the crispy golden brown crusts and significant "grignes", the ridges on the tops of the loaves. The loaves are then left to cool on oak racks. The entire process lasts around 12 hours. (The methodology is described on the bread bag.)
In addition to the bakery in Wilton, WAVE HILL BREADS' Pain de Campagne is now available in over 20 fine markets in Fairfield County as well as farmers markets. Margaret, Mitch, and their small team of bakers and delivery people all gain great satisfaction from the enthusiastic response to their creation.
"Wave Hill Breads' Pain de Campagne is the best bread on the East Coast," according to Michael and Jane Stern, food writers and reviewers for Gourmet Magazine, www.roadfood.com, and NPR's www.splendidtable.com. Come to the Litchfield Hills Farmers' Market and taste for yourself!
We bake every day except Wednesdays
You can come to buy bread at the bakery before 7:30am and around 2:30pm and 5pm except on Tuesday afternoons. Closed on Wednesday.
Also open Saturday and Sunday mornings.
We offer hour-long hands-on classes for children's groups, by appointment.
Our bread is available at fine stores in Fairfield County as well as several locations in Litchfield County and Westchester, NY. Please email your location and we can tell you what would be most convenient.
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