It's been a quiet year on the doughies blog. And suddenly two posts fired into the digital ether in the space of a few hours (this is the second, here is the first). If you have been evaluating doughies output purely on blogposts this year, you might think we had disappeared (alas trading this year… Continue reading 2020 #Ryevolution Review
Ruminations. Ruminating. Ruminate. To think deeply about something. Or perhaps if you are a ruminant, as below, you might instead bring up food from the rumen (the first stomach) and chew deeply on it again. I am often to be found ruminating. To ruminate is a key part for me in developing ideas, solving problems, co-ordinating plans… Continue reading Ruminations
Its New Years eve. The animals are fed, the croft chores are done. And I'm sat inside contemplating life over a coffee. I find the approach of a new year an excellent time to think back on the year that is behind and forward to the days, weeks and months which lie ahead. So here's a… Continue reading 2018 Review & 2019 Plans
Rustle the top left hand edge of a map of Scotland, and chances are your fingers will briefly touch Uist. As excitedly reported in the rye-volution post, doughies along with some other local crofters were planning a technical and networking journey to learn from crofters about grain growing, harvesting and drying. A journey to the edge of… Continue reading A journey to the edge of the map
A rye revolution - a rye-volution A remembering of lost skills - a rye renaissance. It's coming guys - local lochaber grain - slow and steady like a slow rising sourdough. Three little rye rises to share:- 1. A photo of our 2018 rye trial plot - still learning (low density due to germination/weather) but… Continue reading Rye-volution Renaissance is Coming
There can be no lie, we do like rye. And we think the time is nigh, for some variants to try....(ok sonnet over, here's a few upcoming rye bread variants which we are going to have a go at over the next few months:-) Something pink - a Beetroot & walnut Rye like this. Ideally… Continue reading Rye Variants
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