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Every Saturday of my twelfth year, I stood on a stool in my grandmother's kitchen while she taught me to bake sourdough bread. She kept her starter in a chipped blue crock and fed it flour and water as tenderly as one might feed a pet. I learned to fold the dough, to wait through the slow hours of rising, and to read the crackle of a finished crust. Though she once mentioned that wild yeast and bacteria made the dough rise, what she really taught me was patience. When I bake now, in my own kitchen, I am with her again.
Suppose the writer's primary purpose had been to explain the biological processes that cause sourdough bread to rise. Would this essay accomplish that purpose?
- Yes, because the essay identifies wild yeast and bacteria as the agents responsible for making the dough rise.
- Yes, because the essay presents the steps of baking sourdough bread in the order a baker performs them.
- No, because the essay mentions the biology of fermentation only briefly within a personal reminiscence.
- No, because the essay is really about the writer's grandmother rather than about baking bread at all.
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