We use Palle’s mom’s recipe as it is so easy to recall. So easy that it’s sometimes hard to remember and begs to be mod’ed. Erm.

It’s: 1L yogurt, 1L buttermilk. That makes 2L of cow stuff. Then the double of chicken stuff, ie. 4 egg yolks. Preferable without salmonella. Then 6 spoonfuls of sugar. And finally at least 1 spoonful of vanilla. You could go with less, like 1 tea-spoonful, vanilla if you’d approach the real mom recipe. The easiness is in the relation 2:4:6, if you notice. Now stir. Then eat with so called kammerjunker (can be seen in the above picture) — preferable on a sunny day.

Or rye bread, if you prefer. [0] A week or two ago I’ve made my first rugbrød using real wet sourdough. The sourdough I got of Jakob together with baking directions - both pictured below.

As a nerveus learner I followed the directions as close as I could. Made half a portion. Below is pictured the sourdough resting and the result.

It was yummy. And quite sour. With luck I can keep this sourdough for a long while. I can’t wait to experiment with different kinds of rugbrød.

A summery of the directions in English is, for half a portion, this: Mix the wet sourdough in 1/2 L cold water. Then mix in 4 tea spoons of salt, 3.5 dL chunky grains of rye (knækkede rugkerne, anyone?) and a good 2 dL wheat flour. The wheat flour is there to make the bread firm and stick together. Then 3.5 dL rye flour. Rest under cling film for a whole day (not in the fridge though).

The next day, first take a sample of the sourdough for the next time. Then mix in the same measure of rye flour, some dark sweet beer (hvidtøl, da) and a spoon full (dark) syrup. Smear the form(s) with grease (butter or margarine, not oil), pour the dough into the form(s), cover with cling film and let it rest for another three hours. Then bake for 3/2 hours at something just less then 200 degrees. For lower heat, bake longer. When done, eject the bread from the forms, wrap them in a tea towel and let them rest till not hot. If nice, then eat.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugbr%C3%B8d,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_bread

Obviously things have happened to this site. Let me just mention the most important here — the rest you can figure out for yourselves.

First of all, there’s a new kid on the blog. Allow me to introduce Steffen (his profile will return 404 until he publishes something), whom many of you already know. I’ve been hoping to have him join this blog for a long time now, but my old blogging software wasn’t rigged for it. I’ve finally gotten over myself and installed a standard platform, which I’ll get into in a second, but first: Welcome to the blog Steffen, I hope you’ll like it here.

Now, this new standard platform I mentioned, is (as you may have guessed) WordPress. At first I was a bit hesitant to move to such a platform, but with the ability to easily write plugins, widgets, modify templates and stuff, there’s really no reason not to. Setting up WP was a breeze and the migration from my old system to the new was a matter of 2 really simple PHP scripts — one for converting the old entries and one for the comments. A million thumbs up to the WP developers for making something so accessible, simple and easy.

Apart from a new blogger and a new platform, other things have changed a bit around here. When migrating to WP, there were some decisions to be made. One of those were whether or not to move stuff like phpCF and DynDNSupdate to the new site and I ended up deciding that DynDNSupdate wasn’t worth moving, since I haven’t coded on it for years (and I don’t intend to ever again) and it didn’t appear to be all that popular anyways. So DynDNSupdate is gone. phpCF survived though, mainly because I still code on it every now and then (and I have some huge improvements planned) and because it actually has a future (where DynDNSupdate only had a past — not even a present).

Now, no migration of this sort is without problems and I’ve tried my best to make sure that no old links are broken and stuff, but should you encounter any problems, let me know.

On a side note, the site isn’t the only thing that has had an overhaul (1 and 2).

Ulven and I have arranged a little composition challenge thingy, where we give each other some requirements for a song and then write and record a song according to those requirements.

Ulven’s challenge to me is: Make a song containing at least three things from your kitchen and you rap … in danish.

My challenge to him is: Make a song with real hand-claps (that is, you clap) in it, no drums/drumsamples and at least one instrument must have audible reverb.

Look out for the results on http://uulven.googlepages.com and - of course - here.

… or The Wolf, if you really want to translate it (you don’t! Unless, maybe if you’re on the moon), started something [da] on Google Pages. Don’t mind the weird pics, I’m not the one at the bottom and the other people are not my friends. What I really wanted to do was to tell you to go check out his music - or at least, the one track he’s put up so far. Good stuff, really! I’m sure there’ll be more in the near/not-too-distant future.

Go Go Go!