Pizza Dough 1kg 00 flour 3 cups warm water 1 sachet yeast (7g) 2 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar
Touch of Olive oil
Good to know salt is last - Warm water mixed with yeast and sugar mix and wait for 15 minutes time now to add all purpose flour etc and salt. Mix in bowl and later knead on wooden board … tip oil in the bowl … Basic Method - Combine all ingredients in a bowl and kneed for 10 mins. Place in a bowl and cover with cling wrap. Allow to rise for 24 hours at room temperature.
At the Sourdough Library, With Some Very Old Mothers
Anita showing sourdough baking
A Feast of Song from Purcell to Puccini - Christine Douglas of Birriga Tunes fame
from Australian Opera Company - tv broadcast Hansel: Susanne Johnston Gretel: Christine Douglas Gertrude: Elizabeth Campbell Peter: Malcolm Donnelly Sandman: Gail Robertson Dew Fairy: Kathryn McCuster Witch: Margaret Haggart conductor: Johannes Fritzsch stage dirctor: Elijah Moshinsky 1992
Sydney Opera House - Humperdinck HANSEL UND GRET
Bottled rage, sublime violence, threats and tears, love and anger. Never has a woman bared so much of her soul,” the French dramatist and poet Théophile Gautier wrote of Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi in the 1830s.
An Absolutely Fabulous Celebration of History’s Greatest Divas
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Articles of Note
The Gulag Archipelago, which catalogs countless deaths, unimaginable cruelty, and the worst of human nature, is a work of optimism... more »