Daily Bread
We pray give us this day our daily bread,
and we also admit that
God helps those who help themselves. Thus, out of a kind of piety I
decided to turn my hand towards bread-baking today.
It’s a lot more difficult than it looks. Baking is orders of magnitude more difficult than simple cooking—and thus worth orders of magnitude more effort. Be that as it may, I produced a tasty, albeit somewhat dense, loaf from beer-barm, flour and water. This is a subject into which I feel a need to delve. The word lord, after all, derives from hlaforda, which means loaf-guard. How can a man be expected to guard that which he hasn’t?
