Easy Sourdough Discard Crackers

Easy Sourdough Discard Crackers

Baking sourdough bread often comes with a degree of guilt about the waste. Every time you feed your culture, you have perfectly good flour and water ‘leftover’. This is often called the discard, and once you’re up and running with the sourdough habit...
Make sourdough bread starter from scratch

Make sourdough bread starter from scratch

How do I make a sourdough bread ferment? It’s surprisingly simple, but it takes 5 days. Once you’ve made it, you can use the same ferment or leaven or starter for years, assuming you like the flavour. Simply follow the instructions below to keep your...
Pilgermann

Pilgermann

Before I could think what I was doing I had cut the rope with the knife given me by the second Sophia. The bear crashed to the ground and lay there without moving. The man turned on me in a fury. ‘You murdering fool!’ he screamed, ‘You’ve killed...
Short Short Stories

Short Short Stories

What The Water Feels Like To The Fishes Like the fur of a chinchilla. Like the cleanest tooth. Yes, the fishes say, this is what it feels like. People always ask the fishes, ‘What does the water feel like to you?’ and the fishes are always happy to oblige....
La Bonne Chanson

La Bonne Chanson

The morning sun serenely warms and gilds The rye and corn still damp in dewy fields, The sky has kept the freshness of the night. One wanders out just for the sake of it, Beside the river with dim yellow weeds, Along a grass path edged by alder-trees. The air is...