When a feminist blogger found herself suffering from a vaginal yeast infection, she made the unusual decision to use the unwanted bodily fluid as an ingredient for making bread. Zoe Stavri, who writes under the title Another Angry Woman, has documented the details of her unusual baking experiment on social media and, unsurprisingly, it’s caused something of a furor.
Stavri, who admits to having a ‘slightly perverse sense of humour’ and a ‘keenly scientific mind’ realised she was suffering from thrush on Saturday but decided that rather than resolve the issue with conventional treatment, she would make the most of the additional yeast she was producing. Using a sex aid to retrieve the yeast from her vagina, Stavri used it as a base ingredient for sour-dough, a loaf which often takes several days for the ‘starter’ dough to ferment.
The experimental baker added her self-made ingredient to flour and water and then watched as the fermentation process began, taking pictures along the way. The photos documenting the unusual bread-making method has received an onslaught of comments with many people accusing Stavri of being ‘mentally ill.’
