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Focaccia alle patate

A rectangular focaccia topped with thinly sliced potatoes and rests on a cooling rack.

#focaccia #bread #brot #sourdough #LievitoMadre #Sauerteig

Getting the hang of this,

weekly bread done. Wheat, rye and old bread

A freshly baked artisanal loaf of bread rests on a cooling rack, showcasing a beautifully browned crust and decorative scoring.

#brot #bread #sourdough #LievitoMadre #Sauerteig #molke #whey @brotbacken@fedigroups.social

#photography #fotografie @photography@fedigroups.social

pictures at an exhibition 2/2

A person stands in a brightly colored, immersive room filled with intricate yellow and black polka dot patterns.

Two people are looking at a piece of art on a wall, with the person on the left having their hair styled in a bun with chopsticks.

A man wearing a hat and glasses is walking across a wooden floor in an art gallery, observing a textured red artwork on the wall.

#photography #fotografie @photography@fedigroups.social

pictures at an exhibition 1/2

A person sits on a bench in an art gallery, viewing a framed painting on the wall.

People walk through an immersive art installation with large, twisting structures covered in yellow and black polka dots.

Several people are observing colorful patterned artworks displayed on a gallery wall.

If it was good enough for Marie Antoinette, it is good enough for 1st of May

A loaf of freshly baked brioche with a golden-brown crust rests on a cooling rack.

A loaf of brioche is cooling on a wire rack with a pair of blue oven mitts in the background.

#brioche #sourdough #LievitoMadre #Sauerteig

Location: Köln, Museum Ludwig
Height: 56
Coordinates: 50,94 - 6,96
Weather: 15°C and Sunny #checkin

It is, well, risen

Longer autolysis, longer cold fermentation, less faff, quite chuffed

A freshly baked loaf of artisanal bread rests on a wire cooling rack, showcasing its crusty, scored surface.

#bread #brot #sourdough #LievitoMadre #Sauerteig #whey #molke

I seem to have a slight edge issue … regardless, the strawberry (3 r’s) tarte will be grand

A baked pie crust rests on a cooling rack.

#backen #baking #tortenboden #tarte

Well, joghurt is fine, whey is better, whey better

A freshly baked loaf of bread is cooling on a wire rack.

#bread #brot #sourdough #LievitoMadre #Sauerteig #whey #molke

Rhenish Stoneware

You thought I was done, but you’d be wrong. I ended the “research” but there’s still, well, stuff to do.

For one, I did not yet go to the Westerwald. This is the “other” continuing stoneware pottery centre.

The Westerwald is where potters from Siegburg and Raeren went at the end of the 16th century. Siegburg was running out of wood and losing customers to the newer Rennaisance designs of Frechen stoneware.

Raeren ended up in the Spanish Netherlands which drove some of the protestant potters to the Westerwald.

Both Raeren and Siegburg were heavily impacted by the 30year war.

So we ended up with 2 surviving centres.

Frechen, which converted over time to the production of stoneware tiles and water/refuse pipes (until the early 2000).

The Westerwald (Höhr-Grenzhausen) which took up mass production and kept it up also until the early 2000).

The trip to the Westerwald is planned for May, including the Keramikmuseum.

I’ve also compiled a list of photographs I want to take in Cologne and Siegburg. There’s also another three museums I haven’t seen yet (two are closed for renovations atm)

#history #archaeology #rhineland #stoneware #steinzeug #retirement