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Bread Day

A 52-post collection

Bread Day Secundus

The bikkies turned out more like scones with bits in. Meh. They'll be all right with butter or whipped cream. There's a little of that too-much-stevia aftertaste, but I don't find it deplorable.

I might be the only one.

Time will tell.

The dough I made yesterday is thawing and proofing before the big form and bake that will be happening later today. I shall also ask Beloved to slice one loaf when it is done. Maybe that will improve the rate of consumption of same in the house. I don't have to worry about flour for a while, so we shouldn't have to fret about bread either.

I've used up the last of the white bread flour in today's loaf. I still have some spelt wholemeal, but I'm feeding the starters with the organic stoneground wholemeal.

I'll use up the last of the spelt sometime Real Soon Now.

In the news: Queensland has had zero cases for four days now. Ten more to go. I'm keeping tabs via QLD health and the government resources rather than the news. The news is on the side of corporate interests, but Queensland Health's motivation is not losing money by getting people into hospital for lingering, long-lasting health problems.

The protests continue, including the fact that police buildings have emptied themselves in the states. One of them had the police building a terribly unsafe wall with zero evident knowledge of building anything at all.

Highlights include:

  • Vertically stacked cinderblocks [big Besser bricks] instead of an actual brick interlock
  • Highly-flammable expansion foam in lieu of mortar
  • Random bits of plywood stuck to the outside
  • Coils of barbed wire weighed down on the top with metal rods
  • Structural support filing cabinets
  • Blocking off the footpath in clear violation of building code law

I can't wait to see what the Hollywood Spin Doctors do to this one to make the police look heroic when facing down protestors who don't actually do anything to destroy police property. All the abandoned police precinct buildings have been left entirely alone by the protestors. They're not falling for that bait for sure.

It's almost midday, and I should get a rattle on with the story instead of futzing about with nonsense.

Onwards.

Bread Day, and adventures in Recipes

I did wake up at 11PM the previous night, but since I needed a nap at 4PM, I figured I should attempt that thing called a proper night's rest. Translated, I forgot that it was Thursday night and didn't feed the starters.

I have looked up a bikkie recipe that uses sourdough and it promised to be fast and easy... then one of the instructions says "Let sour for eight hours". Fab.

Well, I am going to spend two days on bread

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Friday. Loaf time.

We were almost out of bread, the last of the extant sourdough had gone the way of all mortal things. Mould. Dang. Then this morning, at what I affectionately call "f-off o'clock", I was woken by the delicate clanging of my measuring cups.

Turns out, my Beloved was making kit bread. On the very eve of the day that I would be making more sourdough. They're doing it to use up the kit bread supplies, including the dry yeast we have lying

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Bread Day and Muffins

Today I am making wholemeal loafs to go out to others not me. One for Chaos' teacher and one for Capt. S at her insistence. The starter harvest, gathered closer to midnight last night than the dawn, has gone into an attempt at Health Muffins(tm) that also utilise the bruised and wrinkly apples that miss Chaos no longer wishes to go near.

Recipe will be appearing in my foodie blog as soon as I care to document them.

I am, however,

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Two-parter Bread Days, I guess

So here's the thing with sourdough:

  1. You need to give your starter time to rise before you use it.
  2. This takes a majority of the morning.
  3. When you do use it, there's still mixing the dough and letting it sit for a while (aka Autolysing) before you add it to your stuff.
  4. Then there's stretching and folding at set intervals [1/2 hour to 1 hour depending on your mood, what the dough likes, etc] which you do a minimum of four
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Friday. It's time for bread

So. This morning so far is:

  • Feed cats
  • Consult with Beloved visavis bread making [it's white loaves this time]
  • Feed starters
  • Make pancakes out of harvest for Chaos
  • Realise that Chaos wants to eat them at home (fml)
  • See Chaos off to school
  • Finish making the pancakes
  • Prep for bread [weighing, sifting, containing]
  • Finally have coffee and pills
  • Unfuckening the house
  • And now I get to sit down and work for a change

It's been a busy morning, and I still haven't

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Hello, Rock. Hello, Hard Place...

The two week grace period is nearly done. If there's no signs of coughs or sniffles, I am sending Chaos back to school and doing the decontamination noise when she comes home.

I've encountered a further embuggerance as my Medium account is under investigation and I can't post until things are fixed. I'm moving as lickety-darn split as I can, but I'm also editing THREE YEARS OF INSTANTS so that the sig no longer contains solicitations for funds.

Honestly, it might be

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