Mix it till it looks like quicksand, he’d say. Till it moves like a slow song sounds. Patricia Smith’s description of making cornbread with her father is perfect. Dough churning like a slow song sounds, smooth but with grit and fleck. I’ve made cornbread so many many ways. In waffles with chili, on a skillet […]
Tag: Polenta Bread
Pane di Mais
Gruel. An ugly word, I think. But not today—for now I understand the role of gruel in making sweet things. Gruel was at the end of today’s Search for Sugarplums, which is the awesome title of an up and coming blog I recently tapped into. Sourdoughs Unite! Gruel is a bread habit from antiquity, the […]