Sunday, 21 February 2021
Photo-less not-Friday: what did we do before plastic was invented??
summary: we're shirking our responsibilities; reflections; still staying at home; reading, reading, reading, reading; bread cookbooks galore; why do we need all that plastic wrap? ...an entry for Photo-less Fridays;
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Stamp! Stamp! Stamp! (BBB February 2021)
summary: an overly elaborate example of verbosity (how do you spell 'blue pencil'?); recipe for Naan (wild yeast) with Bread Stamp (Uighur-style bread), scissors, wooden skewers, fondue forks, cookie cutters, cake onion combs; still staying at home... coming up on a full year; lots of reading, including "Samarkand" by Caroline Eden and Eleanor Ford, and “A Blessing of Bread” by Maggie Glezer; rabbits have been very busy, but they are not very good at hiding their holes; fun choosing which recipe to use; we love this style of bread; information about Bread Baking Babes;
Uighur Nan [...] [T]he center of the bread is stamped with a nail-studded device known as a chekitch or a durtlik, depending on the language. The stamping prevents the center part of the bread from puffing up during baking.
– Naomi Duguid, Beyond the Great Wall
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| bread stamps (aka chekich, durtlik) |
