Ask HN: What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made During the Quarantine?

Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made Dur... by chewz on Sunday July 12, 2020 @01:56AM (#23809207)

Worst - small power generator - world didn't fall apart..

Best - bag of real flour from small local mill. My Mom mastered baking real bread without yeast. Cheap, tasty, healthy, simple. Will never touch what they are selling as bread.

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Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made Dur... by reactor on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:55AM (#23810217)

Would you mind telling how does she do it?

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Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made Dur... by chewz on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:00AM (#23819395)

Try watching videos below (they are in Polish but 3rd video has CC translated). This type of bread is Polish Lithuanian tradition. You just mix flour with water and keep it warm for a few days, let it ferment to make 'zakwas' - sourdough.

You use rye flour, possibly crude. I have purchased type 720 rye flour (pytlowa - Google translates that as bolted?).

My Mom then experimented and fine-tuned these recipes.

https://youtu.be/6BeDDl8-VD0

https://youtu.be/PzWD89vITNQ

https://youtu.be/qhq32b7zMwE

This is a link for this particular flour on Polish auction site, they are shipping to Europe.

https://allegro.pl/oferta/maka-zytnia-typ-720-10kg-chlebowa-...

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