No Yeast Bread Yeast. It's a thing that causes bread dough to rise. There are other things that can cause bread to rise, other than yeast. Like sourdough starters, which I have used and it was good! See here for more. But what if you have no yeast and no sourdough starter, what…
Bread Bread is essential to life. Man can live by bread alone. Butter, jam, bacon, ham; all these are mere bonuses. Of course, we know that bacon makes the world go round. But then, some will say, the world has always been round. At which point I have to remind people that the…
The Muffins What is (or are) muffins? This is a good question. I think we need to clear this up, because there are two basic types. Muffins, which most Americans will recognise as that cylindrical shape, growing symmetrically in girth from bottom to top, topped with a mushroom head; which, IMO, is the…
Fame I'm going to dispense with the story completely for this very simple recipe for cranberry scones. I did have people critcise the previous recipe for being overly long. It was a summer day, three years ago, when I was at my friend Twane's house. And he, being highly proficient in the kitchen,…
The Short History of Nothing Hello and welcome back! We're talking about a recipe And a very spicy one it be Don't know much about cookery I do know about what I cook And you're left wondering what a wonderful world it would be if I didn't attempt poetry (My apologies to Sam…
Aloo Gobi This, translated literally, is potato cauliflower, where aloo = potato and Gobi is cauliflower. Now, be careful, because there is gobi and then there is gobi. And, as you know, there is the Gobi, which is a desert. (Not dessert!) This is Fool Gobi, where the Fool is a Flower, thus…
Sourdough! Sourdough became the buzzword of the pandemic in 2020. Everyone who was stuck at home decided to experiment with sourdough. Every one started a sourdough starter and baked sourdough bread. Except I. As is normal in my life, I procrastinated for months before I came under the spell of this wond'rous beast.…
Introduction It's time for okra with yogurt, folks. Yep! A recipe. A real one. With okra! But first! No, I'm not going to insert a video of Danny Kaye as The Inspector General. I did that once before and it's old now. So then what? How should boredom be achieved? Hmm. I know!…
Introduction This is a recipe. A recipe that is natural. A natural cure for constipation. You're here at Sloword.com, so naturally, I have to give you a story to go with the recipe. It's in the nature of things here. Many, many moons ago, I was a young lad. As young lads do,…
You're probably wondering, aren't you, what a bottle gourd is. Oh, you want to know what coriander is too? How about mint? Let me tell you a little bit of what I did today. I woke up late from partying late the night before. Syntia made coffee. You don't know who Syntia is?…