Saturday, August 11, 2007
Recipe of the Week: Pane Rustica
This is the best bread recipe you'll ever bake. It's so easy a 7 year old can make it, and so good your friends and family will think you flew to Italy to get it!
Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street BakeryTime: About 1½ hours plus 14 to 20 hours’ rising
3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
¼ teaspoon instant yeast
1¼ teaspoons salt
Cornmeal or wheat bran as needed
1. In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 5/8 cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
2. Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles. Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
3. Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
4. At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.
Yield: One 1½-pound loaf.
Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street BakeryTime: About 1½ hours plus 14 to 20 hours’ rising
3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
¼ teaspoon instant yeast
1¼ teaspoons salt
Cornmeal or wheat bran as needed
1. In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 5/8 cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
2. Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles. Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
3. Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
4. At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.
Yield: One 1½-pound loaf.
HT: My Dad, for tracking this gem down!
Buon apetito!
Miracle of Miracles!
“There will be no public celebration of the pre-Vatican II rites until I am assured that they can be celebrated well and in accord with Summorum Pontificum’s terms.” Bishop Conlon, Diocese of Steubenville
Miracles are happening all around us in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI’s July 7th Motu Proprio liberating the Ancient Roman Rite of Mass, which was never abrogated. Our dear Bishops, our shepherds, after years of oppression, are, for the first time, emboldened to demand liturgical excellence from their priests—at least those who intend to offer what is being called the “extraordinary” rite of Mass. How very encouraging to be reminded that it has been our bishops who have been diligently preserving an understanding of the Latin language and ancient liturgy all these years, so that they may now put that hard work to good use in approving the competency of all the priests in their dioceses who intend to begin offering the ancient liturgy in this ancient language starting this September 14. It must be a mark of their profound humility, to give just one example, that rather than humiliate the Holy Father by openly correcting the persistent improper translation, in the Novus Ordo Missae, of the Latin “pro multis” from “for all” to “for many” they have waited humbly these almost 40 years for the Holy Father to correct an error that even elementary students of Latin must have known all along. How they must have suffered under the cross of personal criticism whilst engaged in this courageous effort to hide their father’s nakedness. I’m confident that these bishops will be more than happy to divert diocesan funds in order that as many priests from their dioceses as desire can attend the training seminars being offered by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in how to offer the Traditional Latin Mass “well and in accord with Summorum Pontificum’s terms.”
The fact is that their obviously imbalanced enforcement of the two different sets of rubrics, the Novus Ordo Missae, and the Traditional Latin Mass according to the 1962 Missal, sends a very clear and resounding message:
What is perfect must ever remain so, and what was never perfect, and hence ever changing, was never worth the trouble to safeguard in the first place.
Miracles are happening all around us in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI’s July 7th Motu Proprio liberating the Ancient Roman Rite of Mass, which was never abrogated. Our dear Bishops, our shepherds, after years of oppression, are, for the first time, emboldened to demand liturgical excellence from their priests—at least those who intend to offer what is being called the “extraordinary” rite of Mass. How very encouraging to be reminded that it has been our bishops who have been diligently preserving an understanding of the Latin language and ancient liturgy all these years, so that they may now put that hard work to good use in approving the competency of all the priests in their dioceses who intend to begin offering the ancient liturgy in this ancient language starting this September 14. It must be a mark of their profound humility, to give just one example, that rather than humiliate the Holy Father by openly correcting the persistent improper translation, in the Novus Ordo Missae, of the Latin “pro multis” from “for all” to “for many” they have waited humbly these almost 40 years for the Holy Father to correct an error that even elementary students of Latin must have known all along. How they must have suffered under the cross of personal criticism whilst engaged in this courageous effort to hide their father’s nakedness. I’m confident that these bishops will be more than happy to divert diocesan funds in order that as many priests from their dioceses as desire can attend the training seminars being offered by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in how to offer the Traditional Latin Mass “well and in accord with Summorum Pontificum’s terms.”
The fact is that their obviously imbalanced enforcement of the two different sets of rubrics, the Novus Ordo Missae, and the Traditional Latin Mass according to the 1962 Missal, sends a very clear and resounding message:
What is perfect must ever remain so, and what was never perfect, and hence ever changing, was never worth the trouble to safeguard in the first place.
Heaven preserve us!
A Year With The Saints
"The Mass is certainly a function the most excellent, the most holy, the most acceptable to God and useful to us, that can be imagined. And so, while it is going on, the angels assist in crowds, with bare feet, with earnest eyes, with downcast brows, with great silence, with incredible amazement and veneration. With what purity, attention, devotion, and reverence, then, ought the priest to celebrate it? He should approach the sacred altar as Jesus Christ, assist there as an angel, minister there as a Saint, offer there the prayers of the people as a high-priest, interpose there for reconciliation between God and men as a mediator, and pray for himself as a human being."--St. Lawrence Justinian
Friday, August 10, 2007
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