Presents a description of how grains are turned into bread, in simple text with illustrations, describing the process, step-by-step, from how grain is made into flour, then baked into bread and eaten.
Rhyming text reveals the process of preparing bread dough in the evening while the stove is still warm so that it will rise overnight, ready to bake into loaves before the family awakens the next morning.
Grandmother almost loses her secret recipe for cranberry bread to one of the guests she and Maggie invite for Thanksgiving dinner. Includes the secret recipe.