For most women, a bout of thrush usually results in a couple of days of insatiable itchiness and a trip to the chemist.
But one woman, feminist blogger Zoe Stavri, rose to the occasion (as any good baker does) and used her excess yeast to, ah, make a loaf of bread.
You know what they say? When life gives you thrush, make sourdough.
The bold baking experiment quickly turned into a social experiment as Stavri began to live-tweet the process and provided the recipe on her blog for those cooking along at home.
Conceding that she had caused “quite a lot of visceral horror” among Twitter users, she explained how she put together the starter for her loaf.
Gross or not, the question remains, is the type of yeast that grows in your vagina the same stuff you need to get your bread to rise?
One “pro chef” was skeptical, but a second leapt to her defence:
But Stavri was not perturbed and continued in spite of the naysayers.
“The next update to be posted on the blog will probably be if/when it’s in a state to actually bake bread with (or maybe I’ll try doing crumpets from my crumpet),” Stavri wrote.
I wonder if she’ll make her own Vegemite too?
Find out how it turned out here.
Top Comments
And this is why more and more men are gay.
I just checked her blog and she's updated it. She was able to make sourdough and has eaten it but has no idea if her thrush yeast actually aided the sourdough culture. She also ruled out making beer, marmite or Vegemite