I had a new thought in my ongoing bread experiments. It actually suggests that I’ve been a bit stupid. But here’s the thing. Recipes for soudough bread nearly universally suggest that you cook the bread at a high temperature for the effect on the crust, and rise, and all kinds of bready things. But! I [...]
I made some bread last night and then, because my grandchild who is madly allergic to dairy will be in my house briefly, I greased the pans with coconut oil. I've done this in the past and it mostly worked. This time it did NOT work, and when I tried to release the bread from [...]
I started making sourdough bread five years ago when yeast wasn’t readily available in grocery stores (during the pandemic). At that time I learned to make a basic loaf and somehow made it work in ways that I can’t repeat now. I had a rhythm going that kept the starter alive, and could make some [...]
Purely domestic… Spelt bread ... Ipecac ... Pink Crisco ... Empty toothpick containers ... Vestment patterns ... I started cleaning some cabinets, partly as a way to procrastinate, as my writing moves forward inch by inch. I figure out ONE plot point, write it up, fix all the side bits it impacted, and then … [...]
It's cold outside. I made some ordinary chocolate chip cookies at Christmas time as a gift for someone. I hadn’t made them for quite a while and they were good. Very good. I had forgotten how good homemade chocolate chip cookies really are. And since I gave these all away I didn’t get much more [...]
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