Rustic Rye Bread
From The Country Cousin in An Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
History
So there's a bit of controversy around this short. It won the 1936 Oscar for best animated short, supposedly because of the character work where the main character acts drunk.
However that was also the same year that Fleischer Studios released Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor.
The short was deemed notable for being a two reel cartoon. It was double the length of most shorts at the time and historians argue that it was a major step forward towards full length animated films.
The short, along with its two sequels, are in the public domain and can be viewed from the National Archives if you want to watch them.
Food
Okay, back to the recipe. The country cousin slips on some slices of bread after getting drunk on champagne. This bread looks more rustic than pre-sliced bread, and darker too, so I've chosen an old rye bread recipe from 1934.
Ingredients
420 g of cold water from the tap
275 g boiling water
300 g of rye starter
340 g of rye flour
260 g of wheat flour
11 g of salt. You can add more to your taste.
Cookware
Stand or hand mixer
Mixing bowl
Baking pan
Directions
Mix your starter with flour and water and let it ferment for about 5-6 hours at room temperature.
Reserve about 10% of required flour amount, then mix all dry ingredients apart from reserved flour.
Add required boiling water to dry ingredients in three stages mixing everything very fast to get rid of lumps and without letting your mixture to cool down excessively. Once mixed with all the water, wait for your scald to cool down a little.
Mix in 10% of flour you have reserved previously. Cover tightly, and let sit for a few hours till cool completely.
Mix your sourdough and scald, let the mixture ferment for 4 hours.
Add remaining ingredients to you scald and mix well until no dry spots left. If you’re making a single loaf, then shape straight away and let the dough proof for 50 minutes.
Kneed the dough in a stand mixer on low for 15 to 20 mins (or hand kneed if so desired) and then let proof a second time for another 50 mins.
Place dough into a greased loaf pan and bake at 210 degrees for about 45 to 60 mins.
Then take the loaf out of the pan and let it cool completely before serving.
Next up, more crackers.
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idea stolen from my beloved @if-only-angels-could-prevail. it's officially been two weeks since my covid vaccine, i'm putting a cap on my quarantine viewing log. of the 528(!!!) movies i've watched since march 2020, these are my 75 favorite first-time feature-length viewings and my 15 favorite first-time short viewings, in alphabetical order!
feature-length:
Ace in the Hole (dir. Billy Wilder, 1951)
American Utopia (dir. Spike Lee, 2020)
The Band's Visit (dir. Eran Kolirin, 2007)
Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis, 1999)
Blood Simple (dir. Joel Coen, 1984)
But I'm a Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999)
Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
Closely Watched Trains (dir. Jiří Menzel, 1966)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (dir. Anthony Asquith, 1929)
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (dir. Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht, 2020)
Crossing Delancey (dir. Amy Micklin Silver, 1988)
Daisies (dir. Věra Chytilová, 1966)
Design for Living (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
Dick Johnson is Dead (dir. Kirsten Johnson, 2020)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (dir. Terence Davies, 1988)
Divorce Italian Style (dir. Pietro Germi, 1961)
Driveways (dir. Andrew Ahn, 2019)
Eat Drink Man Woman (dir. Ang Lee, 1994)
Education (dir. Steve McQueen, 2020)
The Father (dir. Florian Zeller, 2020)
First Cow (dir. Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
The Freshman (dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, 1925)
The Hero (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1966)
The Hitch-Hiker (dir. Ida Lupino, 1953)
Kuroneko (dir. Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
L'Atalante (dir. Jean Vigo, 1934)
Le Bonheur (dir. Agnès Varda, 1965)
Le Notti Bianche (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1957)
Like Father, Like Son (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013)
Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth, 1983)
Love & Basketball (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2000)
Lovers Rock (dir. Steve McQueen, 2020)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (dir. George Miller, 1981)
Malcolm X (dir. Spike Lee, 1992)
Meek's Cutoff (dir. Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, 1927)
Mikey and Nicky (dir. Elaine May, 1976)
Monsoon Wedding (dir. Mira Nair, 2001)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (dir. Isao Takahata, 1999)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (dir. Eliza Hittman, 2020)
Nights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957)
Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao, 2020)
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (dir. Agnès Varda, 1977)
Only Angels Have Wings (dir. Howard Hawks, 1939)
Pandora's Box (dir. G. W. Pabst, 1929)
Pennies from Heaven (dir. Herbert Ross, 1981)
Pickup on South Street (dir. Samuel Fuller, 1953)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (dir. Jasmila Žbanić, 2020)
Red, White and Blue (dir. Steve McQueen, 2020)
Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1960)
Romeo + Juliet (dir. Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson, 1998)
Scattered Clouds (dir. Mikio Naruse, 1967)
The Sea Wolf (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1941)
Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Sleepless in Seattle (dir. Nora Ephron, 1993)
Sound of Metal (dir. Darius Marder, 2019)
Stop Making Sense (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1984)
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (dir. William Greaves, 1968)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (dir. Joseph Sargent, 1974)
Tea and Sympathy (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1969)
Three Colors: Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (dir. Beeban Kidron, 1995)
Two for the Road (dir. Stanley Donen, 1967)
Uptight (dir. Jules Dassin, 1968)
The Watermelon Woman (dir. Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
What the Constitution Means to Me (dir. Marielle Heller, 2020)
Whisper of the Heart (dir. Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (dir. Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams, 1988)
Within Our Gates (dir. Oscar Micheaux, 1920)
Wolfwalkers (dir. Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, 2020)
A Woman Under the Influence (dir. John Cassavetes, 1974)
shorts:
Asparagus (dir. Suzan Pitt, 1979)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (dir. Marv Newland, 1969)
Black Panthers (dir. Agnès Varda, 1968)
Coming Out (dir. Cressa Maeve Beer, 2020)
Fireworks (dir. Kenneth Anger, 1947)
The House is Black (dir. Forough Farrokhzad, 1963)
The Human Voice (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2020)
Kapaemahu (dir. Joe Wilson, Dean Hamer, and Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, 2020)
The Meaning of Life (dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2005)
The Music Box (dir. James Parrott, 1932)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (dir. Robert Enrico, 1961)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (dir. Dave Flesicher, 1936)
Uncle Yanco (dir. Agnès Varda, 1967)
World of Tomorrow, Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2020)
Zero for Conduct (dir. Jean Vigo, 1933)
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