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

[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...