I just use rye flour for the starter. Wheat flour makes it a little lighter, and is less expensive. I only experimented a couple of times with spelt flour. I like the taste of it, but it is more delicate. It didn't rise as nicely. It would probably take a little more experimenting.
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Still thinking: Unfortunately my recipes tend to not be so precise, i go more by feeling, but I try to write it up as good as I can.
For the starter: Mix several of spoons of rye flour with water (ca. 100-150 ml). Add twice a day one spoon of rye flour and a little bit of water and stir. After about 3 days it should start getting sour. It is important, that it is rye flour, not wheat. Each time after making bread one keeps a little bit of the starter and "feeds" it up again. The older a starter is, the more stable it is and less likely to go bad. The consistency should be between fluid and semi-fluid.
Over the week I feed my starter up (with rye flour and water) until I have about 1 liter. I pour most of it in a bowl and just keep a little bit for the next week.
To this I add about one spoon of salt, and then whatever spices I am in a mood for: rosemary, coriand, caraway, or different nuts and seeds. Mix it well and then add flour. Unlike for the starter I now use wheat, probably about 750 gr. Knead it until the dough is nice and smooth. The kneading brings out the gluten and makes it smooth, so for wheat, the more you knead the better (if you use spelt for example you shouldn't knead it too much).
Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let it stand for 5 hours or longer. I usually prepare the dough at night and bake the next morning.
Knead it again, and put it in a mould or on a baking sheet (butter the form before, so the bread will come out).
Let it stand again for one hour.
Bake for 10-15 minutes at 430 °F / 220 °C
Bake for 40-45 minutes at 370 °F / 185 °C
This will depend on your oven though. If you want a nice crust, spray water in the oven once in a while for the first 10-15 minutes.
Enjoy :-)
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Living in the US for the last 3 years, I really miss the bread from where I grew up (Germany and France). I'm a little snobby about this and wouldn't call the bread that one can buy here - at least the one that students can afford - "bread". So I bake my own sourdough bread once a week. It's quite easy to make, and I save a lot of money.
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What is your religious belief now?
by jwfacts ini have a new poll at jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/ as i am very interested to see what people have moved on to believe.
as this is considered sensitive by some, you can answer anonymously at the jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/, or answer on this thread.
this is what i have created in the list, but feel free to add comments, corrections, or options i have missed.. .
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Agnostic - and not only concerning theology
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Books that make you go hmm....
by jgnat init's occurred to me that i have been reshaped by the books i have read, taking my new knowledge for granted, and forgetting that those around me have not been on the same journey.
as a consequence sparks fly, as iron sharpening iron, as we strive to understand each other (or to insist that we are not the same).
there are a few books that stand out, as i refer to them over and over again.
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Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh (I read this as a child and decided then and there that I ould become a Mathematician)
The Mormon Murders by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (I read this during my journey out of the WT)
Perfect Rigor: a Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen (a biography of Grisha Perelman)
Ishmael; My Ishmael; The Story of B three books by Daniel Quinn (made me think a lot about the state of humankind, how we came until here, and how we should go on)
Way of the peacful Warrior by Dan Millman (especially for athletes, but also for all who want to succeed anywhere)
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Books that make you go hmm....
by jgnat init's occurred to me that i have been reshaped by the books i have read, taking my new knowledge for granted, and forgetting that those around me have not been on the same journey.
as a consequence sparks fly, as iron sharpening iron, as we strive to understand each other (or to insist that we are not the same).
there are a few books that stand out, as i refer to them over and over again.
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys
Les jeux son faits by Jean-Paul Sartre
Déjame que te cuente by Jorge Bucay
Faust. Eine Tragödie. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What happens when a legally married....?
by sosoconfused inlesbian couple that has a child decides that they want to be one of jehovahs witnesses?
really think about this for a second.. what will they do then.. option 1: will they tell them that they have to get a divorce and ignore the scriptural counsel of jehovah hating a divorcing?
will they say that it was never valid anyway in the eyes of jehovah?
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In my hall there was an individual, at that time a married elder, who found out that genetically he was female.
He wrote to the society and they told him, he basically can choose, "what he wants to consider himself". But no matter what he cannot be an elder anymore.
When the authorities found out, their marriage was annulled, as this was before gay/lesbian marriage in this country was legal. However they continued to live together, and where active JW in good standing. Later he/she was required to change his passport and name to a female.
They still live together, and I think they still attend meetings once in a while. Since I haven't been there for years, I don't kno how the situation has been handled.
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For those of you who read/understand German
by Nika Bee inthere was a documentary about jehovahs witnesses (in austria) on the austrian tv channel orf2.
http://tvthek.orf.at/programs/4204899-kreuz---quer/episodes/5322965-kreuz-und-quer.
for some reason i can't hear the sound, just read the subtitles.. i am watching it at the moment, so i cannot say much yet, but might post something later or tomorrow..
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Ok, almost finished - so many memories.
In this documentary there is no narrator, only JW talk. Most of the scenes are posed (they also try very hard not to speak dialect), some scenes are from the district assembly (convention?). Gerrit Lösch is talking (I didn't know he was from Austria).
There are scenes from door-to-door service, a shepherding call, a meeting.
Seems polished, trying to give a "normal" image. But it looks kind of creepy, puppet like.
Some go out of their way to replace JW jargon. For example the guy in the German printery uses the word "Gottesdienst" - translated something like worship, but JW in Germany don't use it for their meetings, because it is associated with catholicism (or protestantism).
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For those of you who read/understand German
by Nika Bee inthere was a documentary about jehovahs witnesses (in austria) on the austrian tv channel orf2.
http://tvthek.orf.at/programs/4204899-kreuz---quer/episodes/5322965-kreuz-und-quer.
for some reason i can't hear the sound, just read the subtitles.. i am watching it at the moment, so i cannot say much yet, but might post something later or tomorrow..
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Thanks!
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For those of you who read/understand German
by Nika Bee inthere was a documentary about jehovahs witnesses (in austria) on the austrian tv channel orf2.
http://tvthek.orf.at/programs/4204899-kreuz---quer/episodes/5322965-kreuz-und-quer.
for some reason i can't hear the sound, just read the subtitles.. i am watching it at the moment, so i cannot say much yet, but might post something later or tomorrow..
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I don't know how to make it clickable. If someone can telll me I try.