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Beer bread.

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Baking bread in a pre-heated casserole dish produces a sort of baker’s oven effect. Using beer adds a deep, malty flavor to the bread. Makes one large loaf. Ingredients: 3 - cups finely ground spelt flour 1 1/2 - cups coarsely ground wheat 3/4 - cups coarsely ground rye 1 - tsp. dry yeast 2.5 - cups water 1.5 - cups (3.5 dl) beer More coarsely ground rye flour or corn meal for baking   Preparation: Mix all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Slowly pour in the water, followed by the beer. Continue mixing/kneading until everything has been mixed together. The dough should be fairly loose and it will not be necessary to knead it for long. Cover and leave overnight in the fridge, or for 3 to 5 hours at room temperature. Pre-heat the oven to 480 Fahrenheit. Place a large iron casserole dish with a lid in the oven. Sprinkle the coarsely ground rye flour of (corn meal) on the bottom of the hot casserole dish and pour in the dough. Place the lid on to...

Soda bread.

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Do not have any yeast, just make soda bread. Only takes a few ingredients and just a few minutes to bake too. We used 1 cup ground oatmeal to substitute for the flour. Ingredients: 2 - cups flour.   http://notarealchef.blogspot.com/2014/11/emergency-flour.html 1 - cup buttermilk.    h ttp://notarealchef.blogspot.com/2014/11/fabricated-buttermilk.html 1/3 - cup cooking oil or the like. http://notarealchef.blogspot.com/2014/11/cheap-lard-oil.html 2 - teaspoons baking powder. 1 - teaspoon baking soda . 1 - pinch of salt. Method: Mix all the ingredients together till you get a cohesive mass. Use lard or oil to coat the sides and bottom of the baking container. Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Put the dough in the container. Bake 12-15 minutes or until done. Let cool.

Combining pictures.

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There are two ways to do this either make a sort of tapestry or convert them into a rotating pictures in a .gif file. Take the following pictures:  Can be converted into one picture with:  $ montage *.jpg bread.png Or they can be converted to rotating pictures with: (note: you may need to resize the pictures first to the same dimensions) $ convert *.jpg bread.gif More information at: http://www.imagemagick.org/

No knead bread.

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Ingredients: 3 - cups flour 1/8 - teaspoon yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1/2  - cup 100 to 110 degree Fahrenheit water. Method: Mix all the ingredients together and cover for a few hours. Let the dough rise overnight. Punch the down and let it rise again   Bake the bread at 450 degrees for about thirty minutes. Check on it at 15- twenty minutes.  Fahrenheit in a heat proof container (i.e. not plastic handles). And then you get:

Open source meals.

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You can eat pre-prepared food that might be cheap, but who knows what it is about   Or you can learn to make your own meals from scratch that might even be more nutritious  and more interesting!