A bit of a break coming up! Saying bye to red carpet; sourdough Pullman loaves; links!
Family has started trickling in and I want to let you know that I’ll be taking a bit of a break for the next few weeks. So if you come over here to Like Mother, Like Daughter, I hope you will take the opportunity to poke around in the archives and even click on the disorganized, half-baked menus up at the top of the page.
As you can tell by now, we did our best to set up a blog, but have never monetized, so there aren’t big professional overhauls or anything. But all the posts are there! Consider it a ramble through some old junk or thrift shop!
A little problem I’m facing:I’m going to be hampered going forward because my go-to app for saving articles on the fly is shutting down its free service. I have used Pocket to bring you my “bits & pieces” feature, and now it seems there really isn’t anything to help me do that. I have to figure out how to save the things I am reading in a readily accessible way. Thoughts and prayers…
House Doings Corner:
While we’re in Maine for our family reunion, the floor guys will come redo my hallways and stairs. Here’s a last look at the truly ancient carpeting upstairs (I love the wall color and trim, so that’s staying). Hopefully, my next post will show refinished old wide pine that’s lurking underneath:
See those big doors? They close off that area (nook? I don’t know what you call it) above our “real front door” (that we never use). This is how it looks from the outside:
This area is, I guess, for air circulation in summer and heat retention in winter. But there have never been handles on the doors, which makes them tricky to open if someone shoves them shut, and also maybe a little like something’s missing.
I decided to go on a hunt for good, pretty but not over the top, handles. I found these solid brass ones on Ebay for a fraction of the cost of any handles I could find anywhere else, new or old. Most ran $250 or more; these were $70 with shipping.
But they needed a little remedial work! I can do that!
I promise to update you when they are installed!
Sourdough CornerTo get ready for the fam, I have been baking. I’ve gotten better at the Pullman loaves as a matter of just doing it and not having to figure out the quantities every time.
I took out my baskets because I forgot I was doing sandwich bread! Was automatically getting ready to make regular sourdough loaves. Fortunately I remembered in time.
I cut the loaves in half to fit them into bags for the freezer. I love these loaf pans because every slice is a good slice; none are too small or too much heel. Every sandwich will be the same.
Here’s the recipe — I double it and more (as you know, I just eyeball relative to my Kitchenaid mixer bowl: once you have measured according to a recipe, you learn how it looks in your bowl and then you don’t have to measure much after that) and had enough for two loaves plus a batard in one of those baskets after all.
The main thing is to be SURE to let it rise fully in the bulk stage. Your dough needs to be nice and pouffy. And then all will be well going forward, measuring 1200 g for each pan and doing what you like with whatever is left over.
Here’s the link to the loaf pans (you get a set of 2 and it is an affiliate link). Know that your lids might not slide perfectly nicely, but I called the company and they told me to use pliers to adjust them and that worked great.
bits & piecesMy fave Instagram architect explaining how he researches the past of a house he’s restoring. Towards the end he gets to the importance of training your eye before you make choices. I would add: use Pinterest to save examples so you can study them. Make a board and then even add subcategories to your board so you can zoom in on details. Even if you have a new build, doing this helps you make good choices that go beyond whatever the big box store is serving up, or whatever the trends are.
Think carefully before you allow your child to play on a team that requires some sort of activist display. If you have college kids in sports, encourage them to talk about their issues with being made to display symbols they disagree with. This site has a “heroes gallery” and lots of thoughts about using sports to force speech and compliance.
The real gold standard of testing on vaccines is to compare the vaccinated with the unvaccinated in terms of health outcomes. This professor took it upon himself to study the question.
The pilgrimage to Chartres looks like it was just amazing. What separates this event from “youth ministry” offerings, among liturgical issues, is that it the young people (and some older people as well) were going somewhere. A pilgrimage is quite different from a conference or rally. The object is to worship at a shrine.
Anyway, one video I watched showed scouts singing a wonderfully manly marching song, Le Kyrie des Gueux. The verses are sung in unison and the refrain is sung as a round, which gives a wonderful effect of harmony but isn’t difficult. Here is a translation of the words. If your boys listened and learned, they could do this in a week!
from the archivesMore on that topic of confidence, and more about bread tooA summer salad my kids loved growing up (one son was known to ask for it for his birthday dinner!)Books that every boy should hazard
liturgical living
St. Aloysius Gonzaga (a true model for young people — in fact, their patron saint!)
Tomorrow is Corpus Christi
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