Rusty Ring

(As I recently pointed out , at high summer you can often raise bread dough outdoors in the shade. An 80 to 95-degree day ought to do it...

'Way back in the first weeks of this blog I posted on the sourdough bread that's been part of my monastic practice since b...

(Both sourdough recipes.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(I've been making kvass [квас] more or less weekly for the past five months. This photo, from my first batch, is квас из черного хл...

Just in time for holiday entertaining, here's a killer recipe for an easy, addictive appetiser or side dish. Both the "Quick"...

(Pot o' rice , fresh pat of hermit bread , a whistling tea kettle -- why envy the immortal gods?)

(Just the thing on bannocks , hermit bread , and scones.)

Last Christmas I shared my Perfect Chai , for the greater enlightenment of all sentient beings. But I left them hungry. So this year, I ...

(I just uploaded a hermitcraft article last week, but a reader recently asked about sourdough starter, so I'll go ahea...

(Salal [Gaultheria shallon] , to be specific. Bread recipe here .)

I often see in my blog stats that people have landed on my hermit bread (Canadian bannock) recipe while searching for information ...

(A soda-free, wild yeast-raised, classic sourdough version of this bread can be found here . If you landed here looking for the rec...