Homemade sourdough foccacia. Image: Su Leslie 2018
Today’s finds in the second-hand bookshops. Image: Su Leslie 2018Posted to Six Word Saturday
Saturday baking and second-hand book shopping
Homemade sourdough foccacia. Image: Su Leslie 2018Today’s finds in the second-hand bookshops. Image: Su Leslie 2018
Zimmerbitch 
Sounds like a relaxing weekend morning 🙂 Love second-hand bookstores, cooking has taken a backward step while housesitting. As in we keep it simple as to not use up too much power. Though when we do get our next bolthole sorted, I will be doing more!
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I saw a tv show about preserving heritage recipes, so I thought I’d buy some old books to learn about classic NZ foods.
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Love it. I’m interested to see what you try! Funny when I read Classic NZ food that Ginger Crunch came to mind 😊
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Ginger Crunch is a Kiwi classic — and still found in most cafes (though some versions are truly horrible). The thing that really strikes me about these old books is how few seasonings they used. I guess if the food was really fresh, and the cook knew what they were doing, the result might be tasty, but I think I’ve now realised why my mother’s cooking always seemed so bland at the time.
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My mother’s cooking was the same. A definite English influence and unfortunately not an Italian, Asian or Spanish one. Ginger Crunch is a favourite of mine!
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Yes, that was it. Distinct lack of the cultural influences we most associate with flavour. I remember when my dad “discovered” garlic. It ended up in everything!!
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Forgot to ask, how old is your sourdough starter. One we looked after in the Cotswolds was near 100 years old!
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Wow!!! Ours is a baby by comparison. It’s only three years old. I love the ice if house-sitting a starter.
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Keep it going only 97 years to go 😜
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Hm. Wonder who will want me to leave them a sourdough starter in my will? 😀
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Bound to be a lineup, choose carefully 🙂
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could there be a better way to spend a day?
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Don’t think so. I couldn’t fit the “great coffee”into the six words 😀
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Ooh
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How I wish that were my day rather than going to work!! Delicious in all senses of the word.
janet
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Thanks Janet. It was lovely to have a day with no other commitments 😀
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Those days are precious, aren’t they?
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Very!!
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The focaccia is calling me! And so are those books. What a wonderful selection.
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Thanks Debbie. Not that I’m food-obsessed or anything.
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I love buying second hand cookery books. Then a couple of years later I might find them, unused, in the cupboard and take them back to the charity shop.
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I know that feeling. I’ve got better at going shopping with a specific purpose and not buying every bargain I find. But the buying and returning process is good really, if it keeps the books in circulation.
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Ah, sourdough! That looks delicious! Trade you muffins for foccacia, over the north fence, eh?!
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Yum!!
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I’ve just had lunch, but even so that bread is super-tempting. Living with Frigidaire sounds … niche!
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Isn’t it!!! I’d forgotten how appliances came with such comprehensive books. This one is very 70s; the dining room on the cover looks rather like my friend Darryl’s mother’s house. She was the trendiest woman in town!
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I still have some booklets from the 70s somewhere – O Level Domestic Science (Grade 1 I’ll have you know). It’s another world!
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I’m not familiar with the O Level grading system — but I’m guessing 1 was the highest grade?
And you are right; a totally different world.
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But of course!
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👍👍
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It is also another world because appliances are NOT amaze to last anymore
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The pile books suggests a voracious appetite for reading. I like to have your sour dough bun for breakfast. Unfortunately, the distance to Canada is far too great. Best wishes! Peter
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I love books, and do read constantly. I would happily send you some bread Peter, but as you say, distance is a bit of an issue.
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Looking good Su.
Leslie
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That looks very tasty. I have been baking sourdough this morning too. I’m still a relative novice and things usually go horribly wrong at some point. Today I was thinking how smoothly it had all gone until I couldn’t get it out of the banneton or rather I could but it looked like it needed urgent skin reduction surgery. I baked the resulting mess anyway and it turned out pretty good – a lesson in not giving up, perhaps!
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I know that feeling!!! I have never had a perfect banneton loaf. These days, I tend to bake mostly in baking pans; partly because I don’t have to worry about them sticking, and partly because with only two of us, we end up freezing some of the bread. It’s easier to slice and fits better in the toaster if it’s been cooked in a pan. Focaccia is similar, just with a different kind of pan (I use a small roasting dish).
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Your food photography is always so tempting. You should be getting paid for doing this!
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Thanks Jude 🙏
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How much to fly you in so you can make this happen at my house? 🙂
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I wonder if Customs would let my sourdough starter in to the country?
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I read all the comments while I munched on my dry cereal (I don’t like milk) thinking that your sourdough bun would be a much better accompaniment to my morning coffee. So I just had to pretend. It was very good – thank you 🙂
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I’m glad you enjoyed it 😀
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Winning combo for a Saturday! heck! any day!
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😀 yes, I could happily spend every day cooking and fossicking for food books.
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Is there an Alison Holst in the book pile?
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Yes!! “Here’s How; Cooking With Alison Holst” 1966. Mostly b&w photos sadly, but an absolute gem.
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Homemade sourdough foccacia and books – can it get any better than that?! I think not. 😄 xxxxxx
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Especially as the books were about food, and now I have a bunch of heritage recipes to try and update 🙂 xxxx
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Yum, looks so fluffy and soft, i need to make this!!
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