“Fear is the original sin,” wrote John Foster. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something. It is a cold, slimy serpent coiling about you."
My grandmother used to do something similar for the neighbors but with pepper sauce.
YES, I know. We had a backyard filled with scorpion and bird peppers, and she would grind them and mix her own recipe, bottle the mixture, and pass it out to the neighbors.
I would do the same here but Americans cannot handle the spice lol
I looked up scorpion peppers and look what I found:
Consumption of this pepper can cause stroke, cardiac arrest, internal bleeding/hemorraging, and any number of other life-threatening conditions. Touching your eyes, nose, or mouth after handling them can cause severe burning and damage.
Ha!! Your granny was spreading hell fire around the neighborhood! Brilliant. Do you grow them on your balcony - in case the neighbours get unruly? Daughter said she wants to grow peppers in the summer - she loves a hot sauce too.
I let the loaves cool then at a little slice before giving them away but they taste too bland! Getting used to Australian flour. I will take these loaves down to the ducks this evening and try again tomorrow. Maybe I will make a poolish to
I buy Australian/NSW Wholegrain Milling Company bread flour from ebay/Amazon Australia and my friend Maree Tink from Simply Sourdough based in Trafalgar, Victoria is a sourdough and grain and simple good hone grown economical food guru. She/Simply Sourdough is on Instagram & Facebook and admits a very good Facebook group Sourdough Baking Australia. (the dot is part of the group name). Also in Victoria is another friend Francesca Morgan, based in St Andrews, who is similarly my other guru, she's on Instagram at Almost Italian. Both generously share great info and inspo.
I am confident in my baking ability. After all I was the test baker and used to teach bread baking for the mill. But thank you for the flour recommendations- I will look into it. I personally think the flour I bought was a bad batch - it turned my starter bad super fast!
New flour now and starting again. All will be well.
No doubt about your baking ability, the credentials were to introduce Maree & Francesca who are far better qualified than me and who often share their excellent-better-than-mine Australian and often local-to-you flour sources.
I love bread and I love making my own.
Hot homemade bread with Kerrygold butter - yummy!
My grandmother used to do something similar for the neighbors but with pepper sauce.
YES, I know. We had a backyard filled with scorpion and bird peppers, and she would grind them and mix her own recipe, bottle the mixture, and pass it out to the neighbors.
I would do the same here but Americans cannot handle the spice lol
Have a good weekend Cecilia.
I looked up scorpion peppers and look what I found:
Consumption of this pepper can cause stroke, cardiac arrest, internal bleeding/hemorraging, and any number of other life-threatening conditions. Touching your eyes, nose, or mouth after handling them can cause severe burning and damage.
Ha!! Your granny was spreading hell fire around the neighborhood! Brilliant. Do you grow them on your balcony - in case the neighbours get unruly? Daughter said she wants to grow peppers in the summer - she loves a hot sauce too.
LOL - then all of Trinidad would be dead hahahahah
I swear the internet is a bit dramatic sometimes.
The peppers are hot, so she used to grow them far away from the other trees and from people.
Scotch Bonnet was a good alternative too. Not as fiery as a scorpion.
We can't live without hot sauce.
Half my kids are the same. Have to make their hot sauce every year.
Then we will get along just fine lol
Have a good week ahead Dinah :)
Aha. I was wondering if you had sourdough starter. But of course!
Bread baking and gardening and collecting kitchen necessities... building blocks of life.
Indeed they are!
Scatter orange, lemon, grapefruit peels around the garden. Kitties dislike citrus.
Great tip! Thank you!!
Cats and gardens mean gloves!!
I cannot imagine a more thoughtful, appreciated, soulful gift than homemade bread. The symbol, the need, the deliciousness!
Plus I am a hopeless cookie maker!
the little loaves are a wonderful gift to the friendly and helpful neighbors and the garden is coming together nicely <3
I let the loaves cool then at a little slice before giving them away but they taste too bland! Getting used to Australian flour. I will take these loaves down to the ducks this evening and try again tomorrow. Maybe I will make a poolish to
I buy Australian/NSW Wholegrain Milling Company bread flour from ebay/Amazon Australia and my friend Maree Tink from Simply Sourdough based in Trafalgar, Victoria is a sourdough and grain and simple good hone grown economical food guru. She/Simply Sourdough is on Instagram & Facebook and admits a very good Facebook group Sourdough Baking Australia. (the dot is part of the group name). Also in Victoria is another friend Francesca Morgan, based in St Andrews, who is similarly my other guru, she's on Instagram at Almost Italian. Both generously share great info and inspo.
I am confident in my baking ability. After all I was the test baker and used to teach bread baking for the mill. But thank you for the flour recommendations- I will look into it. I personally think the flour I bought was a bad batch - it turned my starter bad super fast!
New flour now and starting again. All will be well.
No doubt about your baking ability, the credentials were to introduce Maree & Francesca who are far better qualified than me and who often share their excellent-better-than-mine Australian and often local-to-you flour sources.
That was a good tip to get the kitties out