#purpose self-rising flour

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[ALL-PURPOSE SELF-RISING FLOUR, THOUGH STILL HE HAD BRAINS ENOUGH TO MAKE THAT CORNER IN STAMPS, ALMOST THE CONSISTENCY OF A PANCAKE BATTER.]

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ALL-PURPOSE SELF-RISING FLOUR, THOUGH STILL HE HAD BRAINS ENOUGH TO MAKE THAT CORNER IN STAMPS, ALMOST THE CONSISTENCY OF A PANCAKE BATTER. SINGULARLY THEY WOULD FALL INTO THE THREAT. BUT IN SOME WAY THIS PART OF HIM GIVING AWAY WOULD LIKE THE COUNTERS AND AIDERS OF HIS CREATOR TO SHOULD'VE FORGIVE HIM. BRIEFLY, ON THE SOURCES OF THIS FIFTEENTH BAY, SINGULARLY THIS DEVICE COULD HAVE HAD BEEN ALREADY INDEEDED TO HELP WITH SOME OF HIS THREAT.

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

What's your favorite flour?

Anon are you seriously asking me what my favourite type of flour is. The answer is self rising btw.

[azurahearthborne]

I wanna beat up whoever decided it was a good idea to give me a jar of yeast and self-rising flour in the same kroger delivery order so badly

[appalamutte]

Eric turns into the baking supplies aisle, tapping his thumb against the cart in rhythm with the Christmas music playing overhead.

He hadn’t intended to stop at the grocery store on his way home; after slipping on a patch of ice in front of a school field trip on his way to work, dropping and shattering his favorite work mug in the break room between meetings, and being told for the umpteenth time that another client has gone with another publisher, Eric, if you don’t start showing improvement then we’re going to have to look at other alternatives, all Eric wanted to do was go home and take a long, warm bath. Start that food critic’s memoir he picked up at a flea market a few weeks ago. Maybe—finally—clean out and reorganize his disaster of a spice cabinet, something to take his mind off things.

Just forget this day ever happened.

But then his editorial assistant accidentally deleted one of their client’s manuscripts while performing a mass exodus of unused files, and just like that, Eric went and cried in the bathroom because the day officially got worse than he ever thought it could get.

By some miracle, Dex down in IT had been able to find an old save of the file on the system’s hard drive. It didn’t have most of the notes Eric added for corrections or changes, nor did it have any of his assistant’s annotations. Really, it was the most bare-bones copy, but it was the entire manuscript in it’s most recent glory.

For that, Eric would’ve kissed Dex right then and there.

He loves Nursey too much to do that, though, so instead he did what he always does: he hugged Dex tightly, asked him what his favorite dessert was (snickerdoodle cookies), and at five o’clock he took the Green Line to West End and walked a few blocks to the best Whole Foods in Boston.

“Now you’ve gotta be kidding me,” Eric murmurs, standing in front of the rather unfortunate-looking flour selection. Usually, there’s a complete inventory of all types—bread, whole wheat, all-purpose, self-rising, pastry—and that’s half of the reason Eric goes twenty minutes out of his way to shop here. Yet all that’s before him now is a couple of bags of all-purpose and a full row of cake flour.

Great. As if this day couldn’t get any better.

He pulls the shopping cart close as a family enters the aisle and considers his options. Normally, he prefers using a half-and-half combination of whole wheat and all-purpose, but after last week’s batch of pancakes, he’s out of whole wheat. He could get the cream of tartar and ground cinnamon now and stop at the Stop & Shop near his apartment for the flour, but that place is hit-or-miss at best, and with how his day’s going he doubts they’ll have any in stock either. 

Maybe he could forgo whole wheat flour this one time and just go with the all-purpose, but he really does love the taste it gives, not to mention it adds a bit more nutritional value. Nursey has been going on and on about how Dex is trying to eat healthier after losing his college-athlete physique, and—damn, maybe Eric should’ve offered to make something other than a dessert. Is it too late to call and ask if Dex would rather have some homemade protein bars? But then Nursey messaged Eric right before he left work with a bunch of crying emojis, thanking him and saying he was definitely going to steal some of the cookies from Dex, even though Eric’s pretty sure Dex would give Nursey most of them anyway, and—

“Bittle?”

Eric startles.

Looking up, he stares at the man before him for a moment before his heart skips a beat.

“Jack?” He asks dumbly, because it is Jack, standing there in an old, threadbare Samwell hoodie with a ball cap pulled low on his head. 

He’s a little soft around the edges and worn down in that way all professional athletes are after retirement, but he’s still unmistakably Jack Zimmermann with that small little quirk of a smile and the way his eyes are piercingly blue in the fluorescent lighting of the store. His hair still curls around the ear like it did whenever he used to let it grow out but there are flecks of gray in his temple now. His jaw, even after all these years, is still so pronounced but it’s not as sharp as it was back at Samwell, hidden under a layer of scruff. He’s still wearing god-awful yellow sneakers, except they’re a newer pair from a different brand, bright and spotless.

“Hey, Bittle,” Jack says, warmer and surer.

Eric uncrosses his arms. “Jack,” he says again, feeling himself smile, “gosh, I can’t believe it’s—it’s been so long! Jack! How are you?”

On a reflex, Eric steps forward to hug Jack, and there’s this absolutely mortifying moment where he realizes he’s going to hug Jack Zimmermann, the Jack Zimmermann he hasn't spoken to in seven years, the Jack Zimmermann he hasn't seen outside of the NHL Network in ten.

But then Jack meets him halfway, pulling him into a hug with both arms wrapped around Eric’s shoulders, and it’s like the last decade never happened, the weight rolling off his shoulders as easily as could be. It’s like Eric’s back in Providence, back in Samwell. It’s Jack’s apartment and the front porch of the Haus and the bed of Coach’s truck in the thick Georgia humidity.

(It’s being in love with your best friend.)

“I’m good,” Jack says, his chest rumbling. “Great, actually.”

He pats Eric’s shoulder once and with that, they pull away from one another. “That’s good,” Eric says, pulling his shopping cart closer so he can lean an elbow against the handle. “How’s retirement been? It’s been, gosh, almost a year now?”

“Just about. It'll be a year this February."

“You miss it?”

Jack tilts his head. “Eh,” he drawls out, “honestly yeah, I do. But, well…”

He gestures down toward his knee, and it takes Eric a few seconds to remember that Jack's retirement had more to do with an unfortunate check and less to do with the fact he was thirty-seven. Eric immediately backtracks. “Oh, shit—lord, excuse my language, I didn’t mean—”

“No, no, it’s fine,” Jack chuckles, shoving his hands into his pockets. “The knee has its days, but besides that, it's good as new.” He pauses. “Sort of.”

Eric’s blushing ‘till high noon, he’s sure of it. "Well that's good, then," he says.

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas starts playing overheard and they stare at each other for another awkward beat. Finally, Jack clears his throat. “But, uh, how have you been? I think Shitty said you were at…Morris…”

“Morris Press,” Eric says, pulling at the skin between his thumb and forefinger, mentally slapping his cheeks. He’s usually never this bad with talking. “But yeah! I’ve been there for six years or so now, it’s a really great job. Helping others do what I always dreamed of is just, you know, a really fulfilling feeling.”

“I bet,” Jack says, and he’s got the little smile on his face again.

Another, not-as-awkward beat.

“I mean, I never thought I’d go into publishing, but…,” Eric starts, and he doesn’t mean to ramble, really; it’s an accidental slip that he starts going on about his job and his coworkers, the projects he’s helped publish, how publishing his own cookbook right out of Samwell led to now, just talking Jack’s poor ear off in the middle of the store. Jack gives his little comments here and there, like he used to, and doesn’t once make Eric feel like he’s holding him, and that—that’s exactly why Eric finds he can’t stop himself. The easiness of it, how natural and comfortable it is. How the warmth of a dormant love flares somewhere in Eric’s chest because it’s different but it’s not. 

He doesn’t stop until an older woman cuts in asking to get to the flour, and Eric takes a breath. “Goodness, I rambled there,” he laughs. “I suppose things haven’t changed all that much.”

Jack hums, looking at Eric with this unreadable, nearly intense expression that Eric would describe as soft, probably. If he looked into it too much. He’s nearly about to let Jack go so he can go home and panic-bake a pie and call Lardo about this entire day when Jack suddenly says: “Would you want to get coffee or lunch or—or something, sometime?”

Eric falters.

Then he decides that, maybe, this day isn’t a total bust.

[alabaster-the-crow]

Cottage Witch, Common Sense (Pt.2)

Part 1 Here

There is a difference between a toilet plunger and a sink plunger, and yes it does matter.

Do not use steel wool on no stick pans, it destroys the enamel.

There is a difference between all purpose flour and self rising flour, and yes it does matter.

You're better off buying the organic honey (local is even better), the other stuff is sugar syrup.

If your honey is beginning to crystalize you can fix it by simmering (not boiling) water, and dipping the honey bottle/jar into the water.

There is a difference between simmering and boiling, and yes it does matter.

Laundry detergent can be used in your mop water for cleaning floors.

There is a difference between dish soap and regular soap, I can't stress this one enough, YES it does matter.

Do not use ANY soap (yes, including dish soap) on your cast iron utensils unless you want everything you cook to taste like soap.

To properly clean cast iron scrub with hot water and steel wool till all the food residue is gone, then put in the oven and heat it for 30 minutes to an hour.

[bigmammallama5]

Hey! I saw you bake bread (it looks fucking delicious), and I was wondering if you could help me.

I can never get a super fluffy consistency, and I wasn’t sure if you knew how to do that?

Also if this isn’t ok, please feel free to ignore me.

Hey there! Totally okay to send me this ask, I really don’t mind. So full disclosure I am self-taught and have friends who bake really lovely bread that I learn from, so take my answer as troubleshooting advice from personal experience and not instructional lol

Extra full disclosure: the bread I baked today I added in WAY too much water bc I had an adhd reading oopsie and was looking at the amount of flour. I did course correct some with extra flour and then a couple minutes in the stand mixer for gluten formation for some structure, but I don’t know how much extra flour I ended up adding. I do have a brioche recipe I bake often and tried to treat it that way (gentle touch, as little handling as possible).

When I make my bread for lunches I use just flour, water, salt, and yeast for a rustic chewy crusty bread. When I want a fluffier soft bread it’s usually a combination of a few factors: higher hydration (how wet is the dough), nailing rise time (did it over or under proof, was the area warm enough), hotter temperature for quick oven spring (some breads bake lower, so check your recipe), added sugar/fats. If you are using all purpose flour try using bread flour (if available). Whole grains will make your bread denser but AP flour may not have the correct amount of protein needed for good gluten formation.

I’m not saying look for a recipe of 100% hydration, but maybe try one closer to 80%, or play around with a stable recipe in small batches!

[rosen-dovecote]

Wound up falling asleep exhausted on the couch after my husband's birthday party. Oops, ha!

This is the recipe for the cake that I used, @tomorrowsgardennc 💜 It's the Black Forest Cake out of the 1980 edition of Better Homes & Gardens' 'All-Time Favorite Cake & Cookie Recipes'. I did make a few changes, though- which you can see most of up there on the card.

I used 2 tsp Baking Powder, 1 tsp Baking Soda, and 1 tsp Salt instead of just the 1stp Baking Soda and 1 tsp Salt that the recipe originally called for (which is something I saw a couple of modern recipes doing).

I used 1 cup Self-Rising Flour and then 3/4 cup Cake Flour instead of just using 1 3/4 cups all All-Purpose Flour (Self-Rising's just what I had on hand, but halving my total flour with Cake Flour is something I do with all of my cakes).

And I used Butter instead of Shortening (I don't like the flavor of Shortening, personally, so I always sub it for Butter because Butter can be subbed at a 1:1 ratio).

I bake slow because I'm disabled, so I pitted the cherries, halved them, and set them soaking while I worked on and made everything else; I made the cake first, preheated the oven, and put it in when it was ready. Made the icing while that was baking. Pulled the cake out and set it to cool, and then made the cherry filling at the very end. It all wound up being around 2 hours total for me.

[battleangel]

What About Killing Fields?

Michael Jackson literally screamed the title to this blog post in, Earth Song.

Please, go watch the video if youve never seen it before:

Why was Michael screaming the lyrics, literally screaming them, about killing fields trying to get through to us?

Trying to get through to our empathy?

Trying to make us give a fucking damn?

50k Palestinian civilians have been murdered in the genocide caused by Israel, funded by and weapons provided by the US & Boeing, since last October.

There is a pending famine caused purposely by the genocide that if it is not stopped by a PERMANENT ceasefire agreement will result in millions of deaths, including children.

They could unblock the bridge from Egypt to Rafah today.

They dont want to.

You do know who they is.

They could deliver emergency flotillas to feed all of the starving Palestinians today.

Are you claiming that the US has 4.3 billion dollars a year to fund Israels genocide but doesnt have money to deliver food to a few million starving Palestinians at risk of being murdered by a forced famine?

So, why dont they?

Instead, we have flour massacres (look it up), where starving Palestinians promised aid are literally gunned down by the IDF terrorists for attempting to obtain food that was promised to them.

It has happened again and again.

Palestinian starving civilians promised food and then murdered and gunned down in cold blood the moment they try to obtain literally life-saving food.

Netanyahu is purposely starving them and not allowing food and aid in.

Netanyahu is literally blocking the flotilla, the bridge from Egypt into Palestine and the emergency aid trucks all filled with food just sitting as millions of Palestinians, including children, are forced to literally eat cattle feed to survive.

Its not like dog food.

It is absolutely inedible for humans yet there are videos on social media of children choking down cattle feed.

What about killing fields?

But all Americans care about at a mass level are their 4th of July plans.

Why the fuck would you ever want to “celebrate” the “birth” of a nation that is white supremacist, colonialist, racist, misogynist, fascistic, built off of police brutality, slavery of Africans with no restitution or reparations free slave labor with no wages ever paid to anyone that built this nation, Christofascist, zionist, Greco-Roman, Eurocentric, ancient Egypt denying, Kemet denying, melanin denying, appropriating from Black people our music that we created - country (look it up), jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, rock (not Elvis - look it up), ofcourse hip hop & rap, reggae, soca, etc — our culture, our cornrows, our braids, our dreads, our hair, our Kanekalon, our Senegalese twists everything just becomes a fashion statement for the Kardashians — misappropriation of our culture and constantly stealing from us then lying about it and erasing us from the history — Disney stole designs from a black creator designer & cartoonist who was never credited (look it up) — why do you think there are so many examples of this?

Africa — Kemet which is ancient Egypt — is the birthplace of humanity.

Ancient Egyptians developed roads, highways, infrastructure, irrigation, aqueduct systems, modern medicine (look it up), modern surgery techniques, modern embalming techniques, astrology, math, art, history, astronomy, philosophy all before the Greeks & Romans & “Enlightenment” yet look who gets credited for inventing these things.

Jesus is a bastardized Horus from Kemet from ancient Egypt, it is a 1:1 bastardization and shit retelling, everything from dying and rising again the third day.

Look it up.

They removed all the wisdom, esotericism, knowledge of the self, mysticism, magick and replaced it with fear, dogma, control, a fake white guy with a beard, a Santa Claus in the skies sitting on a fake ass throne judging you for hooking up on Tinder last Saturday.

Yet you question nothing.

They say they dont know how the pyramids were built and that “even today” we do not have the technology the ancient Egyptians had and that the stones of the pyramid were built so close together that you cannot even slide a debit card through them.

Yet you question nothing.

You dont question why the capstone is missing on top of the pyramid or why it is on the back of the US $1 bill, the default global currency, with an eye above it.

Still you question nothing.

Look up the Eye of Ra.

Go read the lyrics of Earth Song while listening to MJ then come back:

79% of plastic that has ever been made still sits in landfills or the natural environment.

It takes 400 years for plastic to break down in a landfill.

Did you process that?

Every sanitary pad, every pantyliner, every plastic tampon applicator, every plastic utensil, every Red Solo cup, every Dixie cup, every plastic plate, every plastic water bottle, every Ziploc bag, every plastic cap to your toothpaste tube, every plastic potato chip bag, every plastic wrapper, every plastic medicine bottle, every single plastic K-cup for your daily morning coffee.

Every time you use a washing machine to wash your laundry, it causes microplastics that are released and end up in oceans.

Single use plastic is absolutely ubiquitous.

There have been 9.1 billion tons of plastic produced since throwaway culture was introduced in the 1950s and disposable plastic was introduced for the first time.

Plastic is actually extremely durable, they just didnt want it to be.

You do know who they is.

Why the 50s?

Because WWII had just ended and they needed something to mass produce now that they no longer needed to mass produce for the war.

So, single use plastic was introduced and marketed to the masses as convenient, time saving, modern and more hygienic.

Just how retirement was marketed as “golden years” — still pathetically parroted today — by a marketer.

Look it up. Also in the 1950s.

Prior to this marketing campaign, retirement was dreaded as a period of decline in health.

The marketing campaign shifted this to the golden years of your life.

It was a marketing campaign built to push retirement living and communities and it not only worked but the pathetic idea of working your entire life to “finally be able to do what you want for ten years max” is somehow still around today.

Brainwashing, grooming, conditioning, indoctrination centers.

Seductive marketing, hypnotic messaging, brainwashing techniques in advertising.

Psyops.

Same with homeownership being the “American Dream”.

Look it up.

It was started as a marketing campaign at the beginning of the 1900s by a president of a real estate company.

The marketing campaign proved so successful that starting with FDR’s New Deal, the United States government started pushing and promoting home ownership as quintessential to the American Dream.

Today, 94% of Americans believe that owning a home is a quintessential part of the American dream.

Brainwashed. Indoctrinated. Conditioned. Groomed.

Its actually taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, signing your life away for 20 to 30 years when you have no control over the housing market or economy.

Have you all already forgotten about Lehman Brothers, subprime mortgages and the housing collapse PURPOSELY CAUSED in 2008 by lenders providing loans to borrowers whom they knew would be unable to pay the loans back thus causing a housing market collapse and allowing the same lenders to buy back these subprime loans and pocket billions while the housing market and economy crashed and millions lost their homes and jobs?

Were you alive in 2008?

If not, look it up.

So, its a losing proposition, owning a home.

A HELOC is taking on more debt even if you borrow against the equity in your home in the form of a loan, you will have to pay the loan back with interest.

No thanks.

Even if you are clever and invest in upgrading your home, rent it out, make money off of it as a rental property or invest in it and flip it and profit it off of it or if you pay the loan off over 20 or 30 years, do upgrades to the home, then sell it for a significant profit, so what?

How the fuck is that a “dream”?

You just made money, who the fuck cares?

That doesnt explain the promotion of home ownership as a quintessential part of the American dream.

WHAT American dream???????

Meritocracy???????????

Most of the wealth in America is owned by white people as they concentrate the wealth then pass it on to their future generations and bloodline through estate planning and wills that transfers real estate and assets from wealthy parents to their children.

Wash rinse repeat.

How the fuck is that a meritocracy?????

Blacks are 13% of the population yet we make up over 80% of the prison population.

Meritocracy???????????

Poverty in America is overwhelmingly endured by Black and brown minorities.

Most of the youth in foster care are Black and brown.

Foster care youth end up houseless and imprisoned at an enormously higher rate.

What leads to being placed in foster care other than racist policies and being Black and brown?

Substance use by parents and parents becoming houseless.

What overwhelmingly causes substance use and houselessness?

Poverty.

Yet we still have never addressed poverty in America.

How hard would it be to take the Earned Income Tax Credit that right now goes to parents with children that own a home, take that money and repurpose it to a Universal Basic Income (UBI) that provides each American adult 18 and over with a $1k a month?

They have done studies that have shown that even $500 a month — and if we have $4 billion to send to Israel every year to kill innocent Palestinian civilians dont tell me we dont have $500 a month for every adult in the US — significantly improved the lives of families in poverty — they stopped skipping meals, they stopped undereating, starving, eating sugar sandwiches and dry cereal for dinner, they stopped avoiding getting needed urgent medical care, they stopped smoking to suppress their appetite (this is well documented, look it up), they stopped drinking as self medication, they stopped eating cheap shitty fast food and frozen meals — and surprise, surprise their quality of life went way up.

For $500 fucking dollars.

And surprise, surprise, they dont want that.

And you do know who they is.

Every year, the world produces nearly 400 million tons of plastic, a 19,000% increase from 1950.

The amount is forecast to double by 2050 and 90% is never recycled.

Over half of the plastics produced are used only once, for things like packaging, utensils and straws.

This is why the fight long termism and they dont want you googling Claudia Karina 2024.

They dont want you thinking 100, 250 and 500 years from now.

Everything is the now, everything is the moment, everything disposable, everything ephemeral, everything throwaway.

Almost 30,000 coffee pods go to landfill each month and take 500 years to decompose.

All that for a fucking cup of coffee?

Be so serious.

The fast fashion industry is the second-biggest consumer of water and is responsible for about 10% of global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

It’s a form of throwaway culture called fast fashion, which produces 92 million tons of waste annually on a global scale.

All to save a few bucks on a shittily designed outfit on Shein by workers that are underpaid working 12 to 16 plus hour shifts and if they make more than a few mistakes per MONTH, they have their pay docked.

But who cares as long as your fit is cute and cheap, right?

Humans have evolved to live on this planet – life on other planets, while technically possible, is undesirable, unhealthy and constrained.

Which ofcourse is Lord Elon & Lord Bezos’ plan — destroy Earth for Amazon Prime 1 Day Sales & Teslas EVs.

Then on to the next planet after they hump, pump and dump Earth.

Do I really have to tell you that only rich wypipo — who caused the destruction of Earth — will be along for the ride to Mars or wherever the fuck planet these sociopaths are planning to colonize next?

The poor, impoverished, disabled, and especially elderly and ofcourse Black & brown people will be left behind except for those who manage to make a deal with the devil, sell the souls and board the Galaxy Express to the next destination of destruction.

Stop driving your car.

Burning fossil fuels is one of the biggest drivers and contributors of climate change.

Need to drive to get to work?

Look into remote options, freelance and/or start your own business online at home.

Ride a bike or a scooter, walk, take a bus or public transportation.

Or just dont go out.

You dont have to shop, socialize, eat, “hang out”, go to the movies.

Do your hair yourself or shave it bald like I do every 3 to 6 months.

I only paid for the razor, after that it is free99 for me to shave my own head:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRES93oT/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRESVh9T/

If youre a woman or femme and afraid of the reactions, watch my above TikToks.

Question why they are reacting.

Question why you care.

Youve been programmed.

Do it anyway.

If you want color, use chalk dyes as they are temporary and wash out after one use and do not have harmful chemicals dyes and toxins as most salon & store bought vegan dyes do.

Or just slap on a shitty cheap wig if you want some color and variety. I bought a $20 wig two years ago that I wear if I want a colorful lewk.

Thats not wasteful.

Thats not buying a new wig every month or every 3 months. Or going to the salon every month or every 3 months. Or buying hair dyes or getting my hair colored every 3 months.

Deprogram yourself.

Cargill produces 11 billion pounds of beef a year.

11 billion. Every year.

Play Earth Song by Michael again.

Cargill made $170 billion last year.

Nothing is ever enough.

The essence of capitalism.

Nothing is ever enough under capitalism.

They are willing to light the world on fire and watch it burn as long as they can continue to grow faster, bigger, stronger, more acquisitions, more money, more wealth, more employees, bigger share prices, higher on the fortune 500, number one meat processor, made triple what Tyson Foods made, made $60 billion more than second closest competitor.

You do know who they is.

There is no price they arent willing to pay to be number one in a capitalist market, no corner they wont cut, no practice they wont stoop to, no low they wont lower themselves to, no lie they wont tell, no animal they wont mistreat/torture/drug/feed with hormones/breed & impregnate endlessly/crowd in overcrowded pens & stalls/terrify/decapitate while alive due to stun guns not working/decapitate up to six times before it works as it is a machine that is an imperfect process and the cow is alive for each attempt/feed dead cows to living cows to save money on feed/not allow them room to walk or move much less provide them with pastures open air sky sun water land.

What about yesterday?

What about disease?

There is no price they arent willing to pay to be number one in a capitalist market, no corner they wont cut, no practice they wont stoop to, no low they wont lower themselves to, no lie they wont tell, no animal they wont mistreat/torture/drug/feed with hormones/breed & impregnate endlessly/crowd in overcrowded pens & stalls/terrify/decapitate while alive due to stun guns not working/decapitate up to six times before it works as it is a machine that is an imperfect process and the cow is alive for each attempt/feed dead cows to living cows to save money on feed/not allow them room to walk or move much less provide them with pastures open air sky sun water land.

No low is too low when there are profits to be made & shareholders to satisfy.

Trump snorted Adderall during the filming of The Apprentice. Theres actual documentation of this.

Watch the video of Trump with pupils f u l l y dilated and fucking blown like a full out fucking meth head slurring the words, “I love everybody”, and tell me hes not snorting Adderall, doing meth and potentially coke.

After WWII, between 1945 and 1949, 20 million refrigerators, 21.4 million cars, and 5.5 million stoves were purchased by American households.

World War II had just ended, families had more disposable income on their hands, and more spending power.

Marketing. Programming. Shiny. New. Ironmen. Fitter. Iron lungs.

There was a huge push from the oil industry to get plastic single-use items adopted widely. For Mobil Chemical (now ExxonMobile), it was all about the plastic bags. During the 1960s they had been patenting all the plastic bag ideas they could. By 1977 they were producing their own brand of plastic bags.

Exxon Mobil created a Plastic Grocery Sack Council in 1985 to get customers to use plastic sacks widely.

Same with retirement being the “golden years” and purchasing a house “being the American dream”.

94% of adult Americans say they identify home ownership as a quintessential part of the American dream.

So, who created the concept since it is so ubiquitous in American society & culture?

The first president of the US League of Local Building & Loan Associations in the 1890s.

Pure propaganda.

Its literally a hundred fucking years of propaganda.

What about the “golden years” of retirement?

Instead of dreaded years of decline, Del Webb revolutionized retirement in America to be something people desired and longed for.

Through the magic of marketing, retirement no longer only meant the end of work. Del Web cleverly sold retirement as the beginning of a new and even better life.

Ten fucking years of retirement is a “life”?

Youve been programmed.

Del Web was simply marketing his retirement communities and rebranded what Americans thought of retirement as.

Look up “Sun City” communities.

Thats why youre slaving your life away at a job you either dont like, hate, or apathetic about, indifferent to, which is literally designed to overwork you, overwhelm you, shut you down, attack your psyche, attack your aura, energy vampires draining your energy, exhausting you, constant pointless masturbatory meetings, constant slacks, IMs, emails, notis.

Constant demands to break you as a person.

Its mindbreaking.

The 9 to 5.

Look up why cubicles were “invented” in the 1960s.

Wake up.

Freelance. Start your own business. Create social media content.

Do what you want now, not when youre 65.

What happens if you die at 64?

The entire idea people predicate their lives on — that they should study hard get good grades graduate; get a good job work hard save for retirement; ten years max before they die “enjoy their golden years” aka retirement.

Wake up.

Per Google:

• Extreme heat waves can cause mood swingsand other psychological effects that can impact mental health:

• Mood changes: Heat waves can cause irritability, anxiety, depression, and impulsivity.

• Cognitive issues: Heat waves can cause trouble concentrating, memory problems, and slowed reaction times.

• Sleep disruption: Heat waves can make it difficult to sleep, which can contribute to mood fluctuations and worsen mental health conditions.

Its an added benefit for them on top of the record profits that cause the climate change that cause the extreme weather, heat waves & poor air quality.

Its not just bad for the environment.

They are aware of the effects as these studies have been around for years.

They want people disordered, addicted, depressed, anxious, overworked, mind body imbalance, severed from nature, obsessed, stressed, never self actualizing, never ascending.

Watch the Earth Song video by MJ:

Understand why he is literally screaming.

Screaming to get through to us.

Do we give a damn?

Really listen at 2:58.

Hes trying to get through to our collective empathy.

Screaming!

Almost 30 years later after this song and video was released, all of these questions can be posed to us today.

Every issue has gotten worse, not better.

Do we give a damn?

Look at the destruction all around MJ in the video.

Look at the destruction weve caused.

Ecological destruction.

Look at the trees surrounding MJ as he screams for empathy, screams for justice, screams for mother Earth, screams for our humanity.

Do we give a damn?

Are we so cruel, so indifferent, so apathetic, so numb to our own beautiful planets destruction?

Who cares, right? We’ll just go destroy another.

And another. And another…

There’ll always be another Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Trump, J.D. Rockefeller, Ford.

There will always be another leviathan and titan of industry.

Always be more strongmen and ironmen.

Why do you think that is?

Who are the Reptilians?

Who are the inhabitants that live INSIDE the middle of the earth controlling our politics and elections.

Even you are aware that our elections arent actually free or they wouldnt allow them.

Thats why theres never a change.

Trump and Biden again?

The inhabitants of the middle of the planet control the Reptilians — world political leaders and industry titans and leviathans and military leaders.

They ensure that humanitys consciousness never ascends on a mass level and that there is no mass ascension which would lead to a planetary ascension which would remove the grid that the inhabitants of the earth placed there to suppress our mass consciousness and awakening, to keep our third eyes closed and to keep us and our planet from self actualizing from the current third dimension to the tenth dimension.

Do you know who “they” is?

Watch Futurama and actually understand that what is presented to you as “jokes” are the dark entities controlling the dark empaths that currently rule our world.

The Bidens, Trumps, Netanyahus, Blinkens, Jamie Dimons, Elon Musks, Jeff Bezoses, Roger Goodells, Vince McMahons, Tim Cooks, Bill Gates.

All white men — have you ever wondered why that is?

Even Obama descends from the same UK royal bloodline that all US Presidents have descended from.

Look it up.

They’re Reptilian.

The tens of thousands of animal species that WE humans have made go extinct.

1 species — human — is not more worthy than even ONE animal species.

Yet we have made over 75 PERCENT of animal species go extinct with our enviornmentally destructive and capitalist driven practices.

Yet people have the AUDACITY to call ME a terrorist?

Im an "ecoterrorist" because I am for the VOLUNTARY extinction of the human race?

Then what are they when they are okay with the extinction of tens of thousands of animal species by ONE disgustingly destructive species — HUMAN — to the extent that over 75 PERCENT of all animal species that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct because of US, humanity!

THEY are the terrorists, NOT me!

I want the Earth saved and humanity extinct.

They want what Elon & Bezos wants — the destruction of Earth and then humans, just like the Borg, just move to the next planet and fucking destroy it and I dont want that.

There has been no reversal of these consumerist, capitalist, overconsumption, maximalist, climate change causing contributing & accelerating, ecologically destructive, environmentally harmful, rainforest destroying, landfill filling business practices.

THEY are financially rewarded so the practices continue and the Earth continues to die!

Resources continue to be overextracted.

The global south continues to be exploited by the capitalist west as they do not have labor laws, union protections or environmental regulations so cheap stuff is made there, their resources are overextracted, they are overworked and underpaid, they are not given protective gear, they die, they get poisoned, they get sick, women and children working and dying in cobalt mines for iPhones!

Women and children working and dying in cobalt mines in Congo for iPhones!

Women and children working and dying in diamond mines in Senegal for engagement rings!

Humanity in the capitalist west continues to overconsume, be materialistic, wasteful, overspend, to impress others, for clout, to flex, for status, for prestige, for privilege, to “treat themselves”, to “spoil themselves”, to numb themselves, to feed their addictions, to feed their disordered behaviors, to fill their emptiness, to give themselves a sense of identity, in an endless quest for meaning, to overcompensate, because they are depressed, stressed, pressed, obsesed, anxious, bored, listless, lethargic, lack empathy, addicted to shopping, retail therapy, numbing their emotions, adrenaline rush of a new purchase getting something on sale discount rack BOGO FOMO new shoes new dress new makeup new pocketbook for that hit of adrenaline for that instant pick me up.

Instant mood changer, instant happiness, instant smile, instant distraction, instant swipe of the credit card, instant swipe of Apple Pay, instant swipe of your phone, instant rush, instant adrenaline, instant high, instant hit, instant junkie.

Addicted to excess, consumption, consumerism, materialism, shopping, malls, outlets, discounts, sales, department stores, fast fashion, Zaful, Romwe, Fashion Nova, Shein, Forever 21, H&M, Macys, Bloomingdales, Express, Old Navy, Aeropostale, Abercrombie.

Addicted addicts.

Never a thought to the resources used to produce the item being purchased.

Never a thought to the fuel being wasted to deliver the item being purchased to the shopping mall or store or outlet or straight to your home via Amazon Prime.

Never a thought to the climate change impact, carbon footprint contribution, fossil fuels burned, impact to the ozone layer, air quality deteriorating, heat waves worsening, natural disasters increasing.

The earth dying.

Killing fields, Forever 21, forever in a landfill.

Never a thought.

The bible which is bastardized kemet and is used as a tool of control claims that Adam & Eve have “dominion” over the animals and earth and that fake shit has been used to justify everything: throwaway culture & single use plastics on the 50s, fast food in the 50s, fast fashion in the 2000s.

Wear an outfit once, throw it away.

Use plastic utensils once, throw them away.

Use your iPhone once, oh theres a pink one now and this blonde golfer and this couple are telling me to buy it through Tmobile or Verizon, time to trade in my perfectly working current iPhone for a new one because its pink.

I mean, because it has 8 cameras on the back and not 7.

I mean, because it has FaceTime.

I mean, because I want to react “Haha” to my friends texts and I dont want to be left out.

Killing fields.

Electronic waste from discarded iPhones end up in Southeast Asia poisoning local communities, water supply and air quality but it is kept from the American public.

Congo killing mines killing women and children for the cobalt that powers the batteries in iPhones, electric vehicles, Apple watches & TVs are kept from the public.

Genocides & killing fields.

iPhone 15s.

Cruises are allowed to dump their waste directly into the ocean.

Cruisin USA.

Via foe.org:

If you guessed a large portion of it ends up in the oceans, you’d be correct. Sadly, U.S. laws do not do enough to protect our bodies of water. It allows cruise ships to dump waste into the ocean as long as the ships are more than three and a half miles offshore. That means that dirty water from sinks and showers and laundry facilities are discharged into the water. It means that waste from toilets is discharged into the water. And it also means that food waste is also dumped into the ocean. 

What about killing fields?

[overthinkingpolytheist]

Honey Cake <3

Happy Noumenia! Today is the 1st of Skirophorion according to the hellenic lunar calendar. This is the honey cake I made and offered to Apollon, Hestia, Zeus, Hermes and to the gods in general.

Ingredients

210 g all-purpose flour 1-1/2 cups

67 g granulated sugar 1/3 cup

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon grated lemon zest from 2 whole lemons

67 g Carapelli Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1/3 cup

130 g unsweetened non-dairy milk 1/2 cup, such as soy or almond milk

113 g honey 1/3 cup

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Honey-Lemon Syrup

2 tablespoons lemon juice

2 tablespoons honey (maple syrup for vegan)

Lemon Glaze

130 g powdered sugar 1 cup

1-1/2 tablespoons lemon juice and up to 2 tablespoons

Optional Garnish:

3 whole fresh figs optional

1/3 cup raspberries optional

1/4 cup edible flowers optional

Instructions

》 Preheat oven to 350˚F. Grease a standard 8x4" loaf pan. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the bottom and long sides of the loaf pan with a little overhang.

》 Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and lemon zest in a medium-size mixing bowl.

》 In a separate bowl whisk together olive oil, milk, honey, vinegar, and vanilla.

》 Add wet mixture to dry and stir with a spatula until incorporated about 1 minute.

》 Spread cake batter into prepared pan and bake on center rack for about 45 minutes or until it is dark golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

》 To make Honey-Lemon Syrup simply whisk together the lemon juice and honey until dissolved.

》 When cake is done remove from oven cool cake in pan on cool rack for 10 minutes. Brush the top of the cake with honey-lemon syrup while it is still warm. Lift cake out of the loaf pan using the parchment paper overhang and cool to room temperature.

》 To make the lemon glaze, whisk lemon juice and powdered sugar until smooth. Start with 1-1/2 tablespoons of lemon juice and add more if the glaze seems too thick. Pour glaze over cooled cake.

》 Optionally decorate the top of the cake with fresh figs, raspberries and edible flowers.

note from me: this isn't my recipe or picture! mine isn't nearly as stunning! Here's a link to the website this is from <3 make sure the cake is room temperature, slightly warm when you put the glaze on. Then pop it in the refrigerator and it will harden well! It was delicious, and in place of apple cider vinegar I used more lemon juice. I'm vegan, so I was happy to find that I could make this cake vegan! I used self-rising flour in place of all-purpose, baking soda and baking powder.

[dearbisexual]

The cookies taste like playdoh :( apparently u cannot substitute "self rising" flour for all purpose flour without making other changes to the recipe. But now I know!! And besides it was good and fun to bake something even if it turned out poorly

[gaast]

Had to use self-rising flour because we were out of all-purpose but I baked the In Stars and Time cookies and they're awesome! Great, easy recipe to get back into baking.

[highfemmeorthehighway]

How to get water to the perfect yeast-blooming temperature

Alright. So when I was perfecting my bread recipie, the most daunting thing was figuring out how the hell to use active dry yeast.

Do I dump it right into the dough? Combine it gradually? How hot is too hot? Wait, is the yeast already alive in there???

Worry not. This is the yeast-blooming guide I wish I would have had when I made my first loaf of shitty foccacia.

You will need:

A food thermometer- this is not optional! It doesn't have to be fancy or expensive, it just has to work. The temp we're aiming for is 105-110.

Bread flour, as opposed to all-purpose or self-rising. You CAN make bread with those, if you're desperate, but bread flour is certainly the best bet by far. Try both, you'll notice a significant difference!

Sugar or honey. Again, not optional. "You disgusting American, sugar doesn't belong in bread!" Settle down- and remember your chemistry. Fermentation CAN'T happen without sugar. You don't need a lot, we're not trying to make cake, only a spoonful or so. If you want the bread to be fluffy, you'll need a bit of sugar for the yeast to react with. No, the bread won't be sweet- it'll actually be a bit tart!

Warm weather. I'm a lucky duck and live in a subtropical/monsoon climate, and have never known a day below 70% humidity, which is PERFECT for proofing. When it's hotter and more humid it is outside, fermentation occurs much faster. If you live somewhere cold, keep your still-proofing dough inside, and keep in mind that it will take longer to rise.

A way of getting warm water- a tea kettle, a microwave, a pot and stovetop, a faucet that runs warm- whatever. Just get the water hot.

A way of getting cold water- a pitcher, a Brita, melted ice, etc. You get it.

Most obviously, you need yeast.

Ok. So you've gathered all your stuff. The yeast I get from Aldi comes in packets of 7 grams, which is the perfect amount to make a loaf that'll feed two people over the course of about a week or two. Empty one packet into a big cup, and add your spoonful of sugar for the yeast to eat. Mix up and set aside.

Get you another cup. Get some hot water, real hot, but NOT BOILING- I take the kettle off just as it starts to steam- and a cup of cold water, real cold. Start with adding a bit under a cupfull of hot water to the glass you've chosen, and slowly mix in the cold. Keep your food thermometer nearby, and stop when you reach 110° Fahrenheit, or 43° Celsius.

Now add about a cup and a half (or however much water your bread recipie calls for) of the 110° water to the dry yeast/sugar mixture. Yeast has the consistency of Moon Sand, so you're going to want to make sure you stir it as you add the water so it don't clump. Once you've un-clumped your yeast and water mixture, cover it completely with a towel for about 10 minutes, or until you're JUST starting to forget that you've bloomed some yeast.

Get you a spatula. Slowly pour your now-bloomed yeast into the dry ingredients for your bread, and use the spatula to get the foamy top of the yeast bloom in there too. Knead up a loaf.

Proof your bread with your favorite method- mine is to cover it in olive oil, set the loaf in a dish outside at the hottest part of the day, and leave it covered with a damp towel until it's doubled in size. After this, knead it again and pop it into a loaf pan. Proof again, then bake.

Voila! Enjoy your bread.

And now, a few helpful loaf tips from your resident swamp mama....

This is how I do it for my weekly bread loaf, but all the same basic yeasty principles apply to other bready baked goods like pizza dough and cinnamon rolls.

Spreading 1 egg white over the top of the loaf + a sprinkle of salt, right before it goes in the oven = delicious crispy golden crust. Absolutely do this if you have an egg onhand.

Use a sharp paring knife to slit the top a few times, it'll help the bread bake evenly and also make it pretty. If you're doing an egg wash, do that first, and slit the top after.

Bread without preservatives goes bad rather quickly, especially if you live in a particularly warm climate. We keep the fresh bread out for a couple days in the breadbasket just covered with a cloth, but then it needs to be sliced and frozen to keep it good for the rest of the week. Reusable freezer bags are perfect for this purpose, since the slices don't leave any hard-to-wash residue. The frozen slices are best defrosted up in a toaster of any kind, and not microwaved. If you want the bread truly toasted, not just defrosted, toast it again for a little less time.

Turn the loaf upside-down, round-side down, to cut the bread without tearing the top. Best done on a wooden cutting board, with a long serrated bread knife.

Regardless of the recipie, good bread dough will go from a sort of corn-flake texture, to being the texture and firmness of soft skin within a few kneads/the addition of your chosen fat/binder, and as it proofs it'll go from clay/skin-like to springy. If the dough is hard to work or sticks to your fingers, it needs water or flour, respectively. If it isn't springy, it needs more time to proof.

Yeast, once bloomed, will have a layer of foam on top that's not dissimilar from a freshly-poured glass of beer. No foam = your yeast didn't bloom. There are a couple reasons this can happen, usually that you didn't give the yeast any sugar to react with, or that your water was too hot and killed the yeast. Thankfully, it's not expensive to start over.

This concludes my breadposting :)

[wooahaes]

baked from scratch

pairing: non-idol!(trsr) jihoon x gn!reader

prompt: cinnamon

word count: 0.7k~

warnings: food mentions. hoony being kind of a simp tbh.

daisy’s notes: its been 300 years since ive written for trsr (unless i wrote for trsr between now when i’m writing this (nov 8th and also the 23rd i had a busy month) and when this fic posted....... then ignore me)

Jihoon liked to watch you bake for a reason: your concentrating face was one of the cutest things in the world. You hadn’t even noticed he’d snapped at least five pictures of it at this point, too busy staring at your phone and rereading the recipe to ensure you were getting the measurements correct. Those pictures weren’t going to be for anyone else but himself, sure, but he thought you’d have noticed by now. Usually you did, since Jihoon liked taking pictures of you.

What could he say? Your boyfriend was, in the words of some of his friends, kind of a simp. You preferred “devoted” or “loving,” but he had laughed and told you that maybe he was “kind of a simp” for you. That was fine by him. He had you, after all, and no one else did. He liked calling himself your boyfriend, even if he would tease you over how flustered you’d get. Yet he hadn’t expected you to make cinnamon rolls entirely from scratch. Technically, he was supposed to be helping you...

But how could he resist that cute look on your face? Jihoon, as a guy who was in love with you, simply couldn’t.

“Hoony?” You hadn’t looked up, brows still knit together as you pouted. “I grabbed the wrong bag of flour. Can you grab the bread flour?”

He blinked at you for a moment. “Huh?” He paused, muttering to himself, “There’s a difference...?” He knew the difference between all-purpose and self-rising, but bread flour...? Who needed so many kinds of flour?

You did, apparently. “It--It says it on the bag,” you vaguely pointed back at the pantry. “You’ll see it.”

Was this normal for people who liked baking...? Jihoon would have to ask his friends sometimes. He scanned the pantry, finding the bag you’d asked for and bringing it back over. Jihoon set it down next to you, leaning in to peck you on the cheek--just to get your attention away from your phone. He smiled at you when you finally did look up, visibly flustered as you reached up and brushed your fingers over where he’d kissed you.

“I’m doing it again, aren’t I?”

You knew that you could get a little bogged down in following recipes, especially when baking with your boyfriend. He’d whined at you before that you were neglecting him once, just to tease you--only to comfort you immediately when you showed guilt over it.

(“I just want it to be good, Hoony,” you had said to him with the cutest pout on your face. “I don’t get to bake with you all the time... I want it to taste good, okay? So you can brag to your friends.”)

“It’s cute,” he told you. “I like watching you.”

A smile tugged at the corners of your mouth, and Jihoon leaned into press a clumsy kiss against your lips. How could he be the boyfriend of someone so cute all the time?

(Probably because he himself was pretty damn handsome and he knew it.)

The moment Jihoon wrapped his arms around you, nuzzling in closer, you let out a whine. “You’re distracting me.”

He planted a tiny peck against your neck, and you could feel the way his lips curved into a smile against your skin. “Good. I’m getting revenge.” 

“Huh?”

“You’re always on my mind,” he said, “so it’s only fair that I distract you this time.”

Another whine and you pulled his arms away from you, grabbing the baby blue apron you’d had left folded up for him. You pushed it against his chest, “You’re supposed to be helping.”

He laughed instead as he took the apron from you, letting the fabric fall from the neat folds it’d once had. “Okay, okay,” he said, pulling the loop over his head--the neat little bow already fixed from the last time the two of you cooked together.

At your command, Jihoon turned around so you could secure the other tie for him. He’d always insist that he could do it on his own, but he liked the careful way you tied it into another neat bow. He liked being able to turn around and grace your lips with another gentle kiss as thanks.

“So,” he said, turning back to the counter full of ingredients. “Where do we begin?”

general taglist: @twancingyunhao​

[hasufin]

I am about to make an entire ethnic group mad at me. Ready? Here goes.

Southerners don't know how to make biscuits.

Please note, I am not saying they are unable to make biscuits. They make perfectly good, even exceptional, biscuits. (Note, I am talking about the American usage of "biscuit", not the British term)

But Southerners have no idea HOW they are making good biscuits. They are doing what their mama or gramma taught them, using very possibly the exact same tools, buying ingredients from the same grocery store, and reproducing the same results, but this is not a skill they have any capacity to explain.

And if you look online, you can find a plethora of Southerners who moved (invariably to New York City, apparently) and suddenly were completely unable to make decent biscuits, with no ability to diagnose why. Once they have made a clean break from their traditional tools and materials, they are lost.

Which means you end up with all these weird essays as they flail around and make up reasons for why "Northerners" can't make good biscuits, usually inventing super special secret ingredients, which they then share.

None of these Southern-led instructions work. If anything, the results are worse. If you want to know how to make good biscuits: find a Northerner who has learned and ask them. That is, find someone who learned as an outsider, because they will be able to explain what they're actually doing with awareness, not simply "and then you do like gramama did which is, uh, you just do!"

None of the instructions I've seen from Southerners on the art of biscuit-making work. By contrast, the recipe in Joy of Cooking has never failed me.

Here is what I, as a Northerner, have learned. Let's start with the recipe:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

6 tbsp butter

3/4 cups buttermilk

1. Preheat your oven to 450°F. Thoroughly clean a space on your counter to roll out your biscuits.

2. Combine the dry ingredients in a large bowl. If possible use a sifter.

3. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into flour. You do not want to cut it too much - stop shortly after you get it down to pea-sized bits.

4. Add all the buttermilk at once. Combine with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until it's combined enough to work by hand. Then, once you can work by hand, knead together very firmly. (I will note more on this step later, it's important but people make it Weird.)

5. Roll the dough out to a thickness of about an inch. If you have a biscuit cutter use that to cut the biscuits, otherwise use the bottom of a glass and a paring knife. Gently knead the excess dough back together and cut more biscuits until you run out of dough. The fewer times you have to knead the dough, the better off you are.

6. Arrange the biscuits on a baking sheet. Brush the tops with milk or melted butter and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Now, this is not a terribly complicated recipe. And, start to finish, it will take roughly half an hour, mostly due to the time it takes to heat the oven to 450°F. So here are the important things I have learned:

a. DO NOT use self-rising (or raising) flour!!!!!! Ever!!!! Yes, I know that's what your gramma used, but she was using a particular brand in a particular region with leavening adjusted based on decades of experience. Self-rising flour is a terrible scam and makes people think they suck at baking. All it is, is all-purpose flour with some unknown amount of unknown leavening and maybe salt added. How much? No idea! They certainly aren't going to tell you. It takes control out of your hands. Use unleavened all-purpose flour and measure your own damned baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

b. You do not need a special soft wheat flour which is only sold in 50-lb bags under the full moon at a mill in rural Kentucky. If that was important, that kind of flour would be in every grocery store in the country. Any all-purpose flour will work. It's possible that you might get some interesting results mixing in a lower-gluten cake flour, but odds are you personally will see no value in that kind of fussiness, and it's certainly not necessary for good biscuits.

c. By contrast, the buttermilk does matter. It's not impossible to make good biscuits using standard grocery store buttermilk, but you will thank yourself for finding a nice, rich buttermilk from a local dairy.

d. Now, the kneading. This is the big one. Biscuits are in fact an awful lot like pie crusts. And like pie crusts if you work them too much they will get awful and tough. The problem here is that most online guides make you terrified of working the dough at all, and you spend 45 minutes poking tentatively at the dough with icy fingertips, which is 45 minutes wasted because that will never get the dough to come together and you're still going to need to do actual kneading. I honestly think this is why people end up with hockey pucks: they lack confidence and end up doing far worse than if they'd jumped in and just done it. So....

First, as with any dough, it's going to be very sticky when you first add the liquid. You will not be able to knead it at this stage. You need to use the aforementioned spatula or spoon to fold the liquid in until it's no longer too sticky to knead - and only until that stage.

Second, once it's no longer too sticky to work with, you're going to need to get your fingies dirty. Make sure your hands are CLEAN and DRY. If you did this in a big enough bowl you can knead directly in the bowl, otherwise you'll need to turn it onto the counter.

Third, use a lot of pressure. This is not a "tickle lightly with iced fingertips" situation. PUSH THAT DOUGH. Your goal is to force it together. Quickly. You should be able to do this in two or three turns because you are kneading it like it's the neck of the worst boss you've ever had. The one who called you in to run the register on Xmas eve so they could go home and watch TV. If the dough were their skull, it should be crushed. Use a lot of pressure very briefly. but VERY briefly. Put your weight into it; your goal is to press the whole mass together right away and be done.

Fourth, apply that same approach to rolling it out: fast, forceful, confident.

It's a simple thing, but there are many ways to screw it up. The trick is in knowing what they really are.

[lonelyplanetfag]

2, 13, 18 :)))

2. Talk about something you really want to do?

gonna be honest theres not a whole lotta stuff i rly wanna do. i wanna learn how to use my dads old film camera n get better at taking photos in general tho

13. Talk about a scent?

when i was a kid my mom used to make these blueberry muffins for holidays n birthdays n waking up to that smell is one of my favorite memories of all time n sometimes i wake up n think i can still smell them even tho she hasn't made them in years

18. Share with us a recipe?

here's how to make a beautiful true mug cookie in five minutes or ten if u are like me n not good at making shit:

1tbsp butter 1tbsp granulated sugar 1tbsp brown sugar one (1) pinch of salt 1 egg yolk 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (sometimes i use self rising flour tho n that works fine) chocolate chips or wtvr else u wanna put in it

melt ur butter in a mug, mix in the egg yolk + sugar + salt, gradually stir in the flour or do it all at once it probably doesn't make a difference, add ur chocolate chips, n stick that fucker in the microwave for a minute or so n congratulations u have made smth to Fix You!!!!