Posts Tagged ‘Brot’
Lars Ruppels Liebesgedicht an das Brot
If you speak German, or just want to hear about bread, please enjoy this piece about bread: Lars Ruppels Liebesgedicht an das Brot, performed at the WDR Poetry Slam.
French Country Bread
I was not even looking for new bread recipes. I think night had already fallen and I was mindlessly surfing the web when I found this formula for a French-style country bread on a site offering services to professional bakers. I was so taken by the picture of the loaf, that I just had to try to bake it. The recipe calls for mixing the dough without salt first. An overnight-rest in the refrigerator helps to develop the flavor and the crust. The following day the dough is divided and baked after a short to medium rest. Very easy to do and quite delicious.
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Another spelt failure
Today was a special day, says The Central Marketing-Society of German Agrarian Economy – couldn’t they have chosen a less obvious name? – ‘Tag des Deutschen Butterbrotes’ or ‘Day of the German sandwich’.
Allegedly it did not quite qualify for a national holiday, although I would be all for it, and I do not know what the statutes of a sandwich-day are. It seems, about 5,000 bakeries in the country joined the CMA in their quest to promote German grain. The pdf file (link to file no longer valid) lists only about 2,000 bakeries and many of them appear without names – for a second, it looked like I was onto something here.
