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Thank you! I am enjoying my time here very much, and you are right, there are some great folks here. Sweet cornbread ROCKS! ;) Thank you Kethaana Sedai, it's lovely to meet you!

Very interesting! I'm going to have to look that up as well. A whole new world of baking in all this!

Thank you! It is lovely to meet you, Elyss Sedai! No problem, I completely understand! This information is great, it gives me a stepping off point for researching what we have here. The Free From Fairy site looks interesting, I just hope all the recipes don't depend on her products. That would...

Thank you, Nandi Sedai!

Excellent! It's my husbands favorite of all my bread recipes. Let me know how it goes!

Let me know how it goes! I love potato bread, especially homemade! You are probably going to have to do some converting if you guys are on metric. If you need help with that, let me know!

Yes! I love potato bread, it is incredibly moist and delicious. I have a good recipe for it by hand and one for a bread machine. By Hand Bread Machine

What type of bread are you looking to make? White? Wheat? Potato? :)

Thank you, Elia Sedai, I've been baking a long time, so if you have any questions please feel free to give me a shout. I'm starting to experiment with starters - until now I've always baked with packaged yeast, but I'm trying to learn to catch my own yeast and culture it. It's hard, though...

It can be! However, you can also do it without any of the painting and firing. Most glass isn't painted and fired, I just learned how to do it when I apprenticed in a shop that did a lot of church and repair work. Now I teach it because it's a nearly lost art, and I use it in historical pieces...

I tried to write this earlier from work, but my tiny phone screen was driving me nuts. Breadmakers! My love! My bane! I am cursed. The very first breadmaker I owned was a cheap one I had during college. It was fantastic! I loved it for my tiny studio apartment and I used it all the time. In...

Thank you, Faeril Sedai, it's lovely to meet you!

I know, right? There is a modern "cathedral" type glass sold that uses modern chemicals to get a pretty decent red color. The biggest downside for me is that it isn't heat stable. I can't express how awful it is to paint up a bunch of beautiful pieces and fire them, then open the kiln and find...

Thank you, Ilverin Sedai! I am quite proud of it, I just wish there were more opportunities to wear it ;)

Sodium carbonate. There are other additives, even pure silica sand won't necessarily produce perfectly colorless glass, so additives are sometimes necessary. I don't know the full list or how to know what it used, but I can tell you a little more about how color is produced. Introducing...

I am huge on baking bread. I've been doing it for years, and have done bread for a few feasts over the years. Right now I'm recovering from shoulder problems and redoing my kitchen. I am really looking forward to getting my hands on some dough ;) Soap! I have always wanted to make soap. I'd...

Thanks Fern, I am really looking forward to it! Thank you, Ignis, and welcome to you as well!

Probably tinted from whatever minerals were present. If iron is present in the sand, the glass will be tinted green. Ideally, you would make glass from pure silica sand and some soda and add material to color your glass purposely. You need a respirator to deal with silica sand, as it produces a...

Wonderful! I must admit I would never have found it because I don't tend to go to threads called "Health and Fitness" :lol I get the whole "out of time and money" thing. I have always wanted to do all-the-things, but alas...

I'm glad you are enjoying it, Roheryn Sedai, I love sharing what I do and what I know. I must admit that I don't know much about horses, but I know they are a lot of work! I have several friends with horses, and even though I don't ride I love to watch equestrian events in the SCA (Society for...