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Cake day: June 24th, 2024

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  • The tenth hour of the day goes from 9:00 to 10:00.

    So quarter of ten is 9:15. I don’t know how one would explain the other possibilities, but this is the correct answer.

    Imagine it as a glass of water that gets filled for each hour. Once it is full, the hour has been reached.





  • Hey, I really appreciate your comment and I hope you have all the fun in the world with the recipes that you like.

    But I have to be honest, this is not the bread I’m talking about. I’m really sorry, I don’t want to be your opponent.

    I have baked a few breads and sugar or honey is not needed to get the yeast going. That’s a misconception I’ve encountered before, talking to a US-American. What you described sounds lovely, but (for me) it goes into the direction of brioche, milk bread, Hefezopf (yeast braid) and other sweet breads bordering on cake.

    Real bread is: flour, water, sourdough, industrial yeast (optional), salt, spices (optional// caraway, fennel, coriander).


    The second trigger point: flour.

    I’m again sorry to offload this unto you, but I have to speak my piece.

    What is bread flour? The nomenclature is meaningless, but that’s the fault of the market. I need to know from a flour, which grain it comes from (wheat, rice, maize, spelt, rye, dinkel) and how much of the rind is still in it (how dark it is or how white). Protein content is a bonus.

    Just as a positive send off: I love raisins and sweet breads with raisins (Hefezopf).













  • I want to answer honestly as well. I looked up the numbers, and we have 2 million wild boars in Germany. Germany has roughly the size of Montana.

    High estimates say, there are 9 Mio in the US, 3 Mio in Texas (twice as large as Germany). So the numbers are rooouuughly comparable, a little more swine here in DE.

    I guess, the feral hogs are really back to being wild nowadays despite stemming from domesticated pigs. So I will classify them as scary as a wild boar. Which they are, they are scary.

    How do we manage this? Each year about 600 000 boars are shot by professional hunters. The general population doesn’t need weapons for that. And the hunting rifles are bolt action or single action, not automatics.

    The main damage they cause is not to live and limb, but to property, namely crop fields. Our solution is, that each hunter is assigned a district and a number he must shoot. If the farmland in his area is damaged more than x% that is also his responsibility.