Now I’m almost sorry you can’t get hold of the salt-risen bread here, even if it’s really not celiac-friendly. At least without somehow getting a starter and doing a lot of baking experimentation I really don’t have the spoons for.

(I didn’t know it was specifically an Appalachian thing, but that would certainly explain why nobody else has ever heard of the stuff. It’s basically a sourdough but not relying on yeast for leavening, just some bacteria. Kind of similar to what makes the bubbles in Swiss cheese.)

Anyway, I was reminded of that with that butter question.

My Papaw’s aunt who looked after my mom while her parents were working was apparently extra fond of salt-risen bread with the classic farm soured cream (cultured) butter, kept nice and spreadable at room temperature.

That keeps better than the sweet cream butter now standard in the US, and up to a certain point it will just keep developing a stronger vaguely cheesy cultured taste and smell. (Besides just starting out with a stronger buttery taste. I do really like that the standard commercial stuff is soured here.)

So, of course her husband had to keep ribbing her about that “cat shit bread with axle grease”. Which my mom found hilarious as a kid. Didn’t put either one of us off the bread, at least.

Salt-rising bread is denser, with a closer grain, than yeast-leavened bread,[5] and has a distinctive taste and odor.[4] The pungent odor of the fermenting starter has been described as similar to “very ripe cheese”.[2]

Or, possibly, cat poop 🙄

sirfrogsworth:

Does anybody have a good technique for quickly softening butter?

I hate butter just out of the fridge. It’s hard to spread and doesn’t taste the same as slightly warm butter. I keep sticking it in the microwave, trying different 5-second increments, and I always end up with the same two outcomes.

“Ugh, still too firm.”

“And it’s just goo now.”

My next experiment was going to be a lower power setting on the microwave. 

However, I learned that is a bit of a marketing lie. It’s always full power, it just cycles on and off during cooking. I think it would be more effective to have a continuous mode with lower intensity. But, I’m not a microwaveologist, so what do I know? 

In any case, someone teach me how to HACK BUTTER.

In a pinch, I will usually just cut some up into thin pieces and let it sit out a few minutes to soften some.

Also, as other people have said? Salted butter should be fine to leave out in a covered dish. In hot weather, it can start smelling kind of rancid after a few days, but in that case just put out smaller amounts which can be used up more quickly. There’s not much about butter that can go bad in dangerous ways. It should be fine as long as it smells, looks, and tastes OK.

subtlecuddle:

peppapigvevo:

xoxo-gossip-gay:

weallneedsomethingtobelievein:

debonairbexar:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

cydonianmystery:

N U N   R A V E

BLESS THIS MOSH PIT

“Drop the blessed bass sister Mary Bethel!”

I’m not gonna lie, this made my night.

I thought this gonna be young ravers dressed as nuns but nope. they nuns.

I’m the nuns doing the macarena

Here’s the original.

gene-tierney:

so i guess today people woke up and logged in just to see how crazy this censorship can get – now you can’t even see your own posts if they were (obviously incorrectly) marked as explicit. actually, there’s a way to see them.

you just have to go through the tag you use for your edits. posts that were marked explicit will look like this:

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and if you click on the post, you’ll see this:

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but take a look at the address bar

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this is the post number. if you copy it and go to tumblr dot com/post number, you’ll see the post and will be able to edit it.

you can message support asking to review your post (since now it is the only way i believe) & also add a tag to your flagged posts to check if they’ve been unflagged.

WELCOME BACK! For those who logged off, this is what you missed.

maswartz:

1. @staff made a post pretty much saying “Your stuff isn’t getting deleted, just hidden from everyone but you” and “Yeah we know you hate the term “female presenting nipples” but we ain’t gonna stop saying it”

2. If a blog has a pixelated icon that means they got hit by the ban, you cannot view that blog outside the sidebar. You cannot even view their archive. Allegedly if you follow the advice in this post it’ll be fixed but only if it was an accidental flag (aka a real sfw blog)

3. The post Staff made including examples of what was ok to post. It got flagged.

4. Yes, the bots are still here. Yes they are still stealing posts and putting porn links on them. Yes there are still ads with stuff more sexual than they allow in posts. Yes innocent things are still getting flagged.

5. So yes, the site is still here and staff are still morons.

funereal-disease:

anaisnein:

discoursedrome:

transgenderer:

discoursedrome replied to your post:
are anti-civ people just…exlcusively people who do…

could also be “I’ll die but so will 90% of humanity, and future generations won’t have these problems due to selection” I guess. if almost everybody else is dying too it seems only fair

i guess? i feel like whenever i read primivitists they have a individually-centered ideology (there’s some ive seen that are egoists?), but i guess you could have a solely altruist primitivism…hmm

man I feel like that if you have a plan that’s going to ruin the lives of even a third of the population and you’re like “ya it’s rough but it’s tough love” then you need to volunteer to be one of the ones who has their life ruined for credibility’s sake

TIL consigning 30% to 90% of the population to death and/or terrible suffering is pure altruism. like, I get the point op’s going for here, but also consider that maybe primitivism is just extremely bad.

My boyfriend, who takes a cocktail of prescription medications, often gets into these arguments with “burn down the system [and, by extension, any kind of medical infrastructure]” types. My favorite was one in which he got accused of “thinking only of himself”. Yeah, okay, the disabled person with the bare-minimum request to not die is the one thinking only of themself. 

If you’re a solely egoistic primitivist then you’re at least consistent, but I’ve seen quite a few who call themselves socialists and even communists. 

rockjumperbirdingtours:

Photo of the Day – The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is a Critically Endangered species now only found in the Chinese province of Jiangxi. This is certainly one of the world’s rarest and least-known species. The good people in the small village of Caomencun have taken fiercely to protecting the large Camphor trees where this species takes refuge.

This is where Rich Lindie managed to photograph this individual

Source: rockjumperbirdingtours