Felt Food Fixation and other questions for the masses

[femkes_follies]

You all really have no idea how badly I want one of these books. ;-)

Never mind that the text is in Japanese.

But, bread!! Too cute!! I think they're using chalk to simulate the color changes.

Love the cakes, too Again, I think some tinting of the felt.

Or there's this Etsy shop, which takes things up to nearly the same level.

Speaking of which, found a source for economical wool/rayon felt: www.americancraftandfelt.com

Keen.

In other news, I've been delving into the history of spiced buns and sweet breads. If you spot a recipe in a period cookbook, lob it at me? Meaning to do a "development of" type class.

Another thought. I'd still like to do a "Grainassance Festival" type eventy-thing some day: bread and beer. If I were to do a workshop on small scale grain production and use - would anybody find that interesting? To include examples of landrace wheats to look at, a threshing demonstration/participation, grinding, bolting, and taste-testing of bread? Thoughts?

Comments

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

*sad face* But...but...you live so far away....

(PS: Again, the sushi is my weakness!)

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I take it you would be interested in the whole grain-raising thing?

I'm wondering if I can somehow swing the grain thing AND maybe find a site where we could build an on-site oven. Next year around Sept-ish. Gotta noodle on it. If I could get onsite the day before, build and oven, and fire it, it would be ready to go for a demo. Fire it, bake, let it cool, and then take a sledge to it afterwards and reclaim the rock. Hypothetically.

My boss has a dairy farm on which sit many rock piles. If I had ambition, I'd have no trouble collecting all kinds of granite and slate by the bucket-load.

The hubs could probably do a brewing demo, too. Actually, we've been noodling about kilning grains in a brick oven after baking is done.

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

That all sounds like a blast! Keep in mind, the folks on the Pennsic oven site took two days to construct/fire/dry their oven...

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

Felty Food:
Those are too cute... never heard of such things until reading your journal
hehe

Grain:
did some of my own grain before but never brought it to bread (not to say it wasn't used for other stuff)... at the time I was more interested in farming and animal husbandry and also making stuff to make stuff with (if that makes any sense). I'm still keen on that last one and still prefer to create a lot of my own "ingredients". :D

even enjoy harvesting the 'old' way by hand... ah, miss having the land

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I've ground and bolted flour, then made bread from it. But I bought the wheat berries. This would be taking it a step further.

If I get my rump in gear and can find a plot of land to use, I could get a crop of winter wheat in (thought not a period variety). By next September I could have it sheaved and dried, ready to thresh. I think going from threshing to bread would be a fun all-day sort of workshop. Or am I a total banana boat?