As the winter lingers and the snow continues to blanket this usually temperate part f the country, we have been baking bread. We've been experimenting with the 18-hour bread recipe we posted last month, adding things like whole wheat, flax seed, dried milk, and vital wheat gluten.
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There is no silence quite like thThere is no silence quite like that of a power outage. The white noise and blue glow of our appliances wink out, so easily ignored until they are gone, and a strange almost foreign stillness seeps through the neighborhood. There is a minute, maybe two, when the only sounds to hear are the air outside and our own breath as we heave a collective sigh and prepare for the continuing darkness. Then, the gentle whir of a backup generator here and there restores some semblance of normalcy as the constant background of electricity resumes, however muted.at of a power outage. The white noise and blue glow of our appliances wink out, so easily ignored until they are gone, and a strange almost foreign stillness seeps through the neighborhood. There is a minute, maybe two, when the only sounds to hear are the air outside and our own breath as we heave a collective sigh and prepare for the continuing darkness. Then, the gentle whir of a backup generator here and there restores some semblance of normalcy as the constant background of electricity resumes, however muted.
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Candlemas is quiet midwinter day. Boisterous Beltane is about fertility and new life. Halloween by contrast is about death and the departed. Candlemas is about everything in between: family, hearth, home. It is Brigid's Day. Before she became a saint in the Catholic pantheon, Brigid was the goddess of domestic arts. In her time, my ancestors birthed the first of the new lambs around this time of the year and started preparing to break ground for the year's planting.
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