… I … erm … did get a bit of shit from this same Jewish friend for baking a challah bread at Easter. I thought it was traditional… but got the day wrong. I am not atvall religious.
Very wrong. Well, we can’t all be Jewish
Bread was good though, a 20% rye, 80% wheat sourdough.
As a retired professional baker I would love to have that recipe. I have quite a few recipes for challah but that one, with rye, sounds intriguing. I worked in a deli for over two years and each Friday I had orders for about thirty loaves of challah. It’s one of my two favorite breads to make, although I love all breads.
I winged it on the recipe.
I have been baking freestyle for years, but my greatest influence was the Tassajara Bread Book, which is written by a monk in a Bhuddist community somewhere on the west coast of the US.
My rye was directly influenced by that book, even though I lost my copy in a divorce years ago.
So, either a sourdough or yeast starter. About 3/4 whole wheat, 1/4 rye. I do full-on hand kneading, but a machine is fine too. I have what is known as a “dutch oven” - in my country, a “poitjie” aka a small pot. (Around 8 litres? Not sure)
My best breads are baked on a fire. I take the flat plate from some pie dishes (so I have a single 30cm sheet of round steel) and rest it on pebbles. I shape my loaf, them immediately after placing it onto the pan, I pour water in, so the bread is steamed. The pan sits above the water so heat comes though the steam and hot air.
Then I use a combination of beer and experience to calculate the correct time to take it off the fire.
Beer is important, as I drink a 500ml beer in approximately 20 minutes. This helps when I have no clock. I don’t open the lid until the very end, I want the steam inside the pot.
The pebbles mean the direct heat of the fire is not going to burn the loaf.
The book. Sorry to the mods, this has nothing to do with the thread title. I won’t do this again
We all do it.
Threads in the Pit tend to turn into discussions of food and/or books. (Seriously they do, it’s so weird.) You just did both at the same time.
An organizer of our local prayer breakfast has two adult sons whose domestic violence arrests have been upsized to terrorism charges, because in addition to crossing state lines, they planned to dox any authorities who tried to get them in trouble. The link looks like something out of 1996, but any other link is, so far, paywalled.
If you Google this family, most of the links are about a third son who died in action in the military in 2008 or thereabouts.
Reading the article, it appears stepdad had some position in the church leadership. No wonder they refused to believe her vicious slanders against such an upright man of God!
/s
Morons.
Is that a little like natural selection?
From the article:
As horrible this story is, this is good news.
Is that a lot like blaming the victim? Nothing was gained here.
The ‘parents’ will get out of prison and start a religion because the where persecuted because they kept drugs away from their daughter.
Not enough in the news,
‘America, for Christians only!’
One less mind/heart poisoned/damaged by hyper-religulous nutbaggery, though.
An innocent child has died horribly.
I have it on good authority that they’re only innocent for -9 months.
Then, the story should be cross-posted in Omnibus Evil MFers in the News thread.
I can’t believe Peter Popoff is still at it, although maybe I should. TL : DW - he got in trouble in England for selling “holy water.”