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Parades are the best celebration, especially when they are local.
We had lots of fireworks going off around us. We've been holding the trembling dog for several days now. She does not express it by acting out; instead she draws into herself and shakes and pants hard. There is nothing we can do but project a calming presence. I expect it will continue for some days to come, even though fireworks in the city are illegal. I found one spent rocket right up next to our house.
I added tarrka1089 and sarahh this morning.
I'm feeling a bit discouraged. Mike set up this wonderful website. Sarah, Rottiedogs, and I have been working to upload BC threads and recipes. I'm surprised that more people have not uploaded their recipes or threads, especially since swirth put so much time into helping members find items before the BC closed. I'm also disappointed that so few people appear to be coming to this site. I'd hate to think that KAF was right when they closed down the Baking Circle in favor of social media. Or maybe they were right that the BC had become more social and not that much about baking.
Zen's website really hasn't gotten that much activity either. Very little has been posted on the What Did You Bake and What Did You Cook threads on either site. It is very hot in my part of Texas, with temperatures in the lower 100s, so maybe other parts of the country are also dealing with heat.
I will keep uploading what I have--even with my broadband periodically cutting out so that I have to re-do the recipe I just did. It would be nice, however, to see some signs of vitality.
I've now done Granny's and Judel's recipes.
I also uploaded the one recipe that I managed to post on the KAF site. (This was going to be the summer when I posted a lot of them. Sigh.)
I went ahead and posted Annabelle's Lair (Nebelwesen's ) recipes, even though I cannot include the pictures.
Wow, Wonky! You are running a regular bakery. It's nice to have such an appreciative audience for your baking.
Too often people do not take the time to sit and listen to the elderly relatives, and only after they pass away, do people realize what opportunities they missed to learn the family stories. You might think about doing an oral history with her--recording her stories as well as writing them down.
We always get to Indiana too late for the black raspberries. However, a friend has permission to pick them, and she usually gives us a jar of the jam she makes. I'm looking forward to our move there so that we will be there when they ripen. However, it may require a full suit of armor to keep off mosquitos. In addition to my husband's woodlands, we have them growing on the lakefront, but between the chipmunks and the birds we are unlikely to see any of those!
Supposedly the KAF recipe was written for the home baker. That's why I was surprised that there was no internal temperature given and that the chat person wasn't more helpful. I think that I will avoid the chat feature from now on and just e-mail if I have any questions.
Recipe Review: I cut the loaf about 20 hours after baking it. I like the flavor, which is not an overly rye one. The sourdough is more pronounced, which is why my husband did not care for it. I'd fed my sourdough starter twice, after about a month in the refrigerator, before baking the recipe, but I will use it sooner next time. The bread's texture is heavier than I would have liked, probably due to the over rising, but it has some nice smaller holes. I will definitely try the recipe again. It was a wetter dough than ones I usually do, so I will read up on technique as well.
For now, however, I need to work on using up various ingredients in the refrigerator before we leave for an extended vacation.
