They made him at night, in the quiet hours after the bakery closed. His mother and daughter worked together to mix the ingredients, such as flour, water and sugar, that formed the pieces.
Each feature was sculpted, placed in the oven and baked, and slowly he began to emerge. An anguished expression, lips twisted in pain, hands desperately reaching out for him.
Finally, after a month of work, he was ready. It’s a lovingly crafted six-foot recreation of Han Solo, frozen in carbonite and made entirely out of bread. The duo behind the creation, Hannah Lee Purban and her mother, Katherine Purban, called him “Pan Solo.”
On Sunday, the sculpture is displayed outside the One House Bakery store in Benicia, Calif., next to a seasonal gourd and a chalkboard that reads, “Our hero Pan Solo is trapped.” I was. In Levainite by the evil Java the Hut.
Noticed by customers and passers-by.
“People are very interested in it. People smell it, they poke it and they’re like, ‘What’s going on?'” said Head Baker, co-owner of the shop. Hanary Purban said, “They don’t believe it’s made of fabric.”
But yes. Her young Miss Pervan and her mother, a bakery partner, made her solo bread from yeast-free dough. Pervan learned how to make her dough a few years ago at her Wheat Stalk, her baking conference, and started using it to bake Halloween decorations.
Then she and her mother, both self-professed sci-fi geeks, set their sights higher.
In 2018, when I opened the Family Bakery, I created Game of Scones featuring a White Walker made of bread, next to a baguette iron throne.
Encouraged by the positive response from the public, in 2020 they will “Pain de Lorient“Baby Do Da” wearing armor made of bread, “floating” in a mixing bowl wearing bread, and “Pandroid” made of frying pans and kitchen tools are all from the TV series The Mandalorian. is inspired by
Last year they said “fabricA fearsome crocodile made of bread, with sharp teeth and curved horns, modeled after “”.alligator lokiA creature from the Marvel television series Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston.
This year, I thought about baking Audrey II, the bloodthirsty plant from Little Shop of Horrors, but was afraid it wouldn’t fit in the oven.so they calmed down Han SoloPlayed by Harrison Ford, frozen in carbonite, the legendary substance from the 1980 Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back.
Hanary Parvan modeled the body, layering fabric over plywood. Getting the final details right wasn’t easy.
“I was obsessed with my lips, so I used them,” said Hanary Parvan, who worked at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bakery in Yountville, California, and was part of the team that made the bread for Keller’s famous restaurant, The French. My mom made me stop doing that,” said Laundry, which is also in Yountville. “She said, ‘You have to go away.'”
All their bread carvings were made for Benicia downtown scarecrow contestis encouraging local businesses to display creative scarecrows for Halloween.
Pervan said making Pan Solo was especially meaningful to her because she lost much of her sense of smell and taste after contracting coronavirus in January 2021. She has been a baker since she was 10 years old.
“So finding joy in different parts of food is really important,” she said.
Katherine Parvan says it’s well worth the long hours she and her daughter put into making the pan solo.
“When she’s not the boss and I’m not the mother, it’s a quiet time we spend together,” she said.