[Sca-cooks] Prayers for recipe timing

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Thu Jun 5 14:08:52 PDT 2008


otsisto wrote:

>On a similar wave, I read an article once that had a grandma using the
>"Lord's prayer" to time her kneeding of bread dough.
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Tangentially, bread recipes that tell you how _long_ to knead rather 
than the number of strokes infuriate me.  It never concerned me much 
until I ate some bread that had been pappled for a full fifteen minutes 
by a lazy kneader and it lay like a cannonball in my stomach...

-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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