well, I gave in and just added a couple more teaspoons of activated yeast, incorporated, kneaded, and shaped. turned out ok, but a didn't get any of the interesting flavors I had sought with a longer ferment... probably because nothing was fermenting. so many dead yeast cells in this loaf😔😂

@izaya I've been meaning to look up how humans started leavening bread this way. the weird thing really is grinding grains down to flour: like why would you think that makes sense if you'd never done it? and then baking it? you can imagine how you get yeast from unleavened bread dough: you just forget about it and leave it out for a while then still be hungry enough to cook that weird sticky dough that's bigger for some reason

@2ck grinding is not too far from chewing, so if you had trouble with the latter you would probably be doing a lot of the former with a lot of stuff... mixing water with stuff is another remedy for chewing/swallowing troubles... and cooking, once you've accidentally or out of curiosity done it with one thing, you'll try to do it with everything...

strongjaw - chew grain, weakjaw - make dough

@izaya

Follow

@namark that makes a whole heck of a lot of sense. for baby or granny, we'd mash and grind the tough stuff, maybe by mouth then with water and stone @izaya

Sign in to participate in the conversation
CleverLibre Social

CleverLibre Social is an inclusive social instance for open discussion, learning, and community.
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.