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"Eccentric and incurably old-fashioned" seems to be a good description. Yes, I think about the past  lot, how people lived in old times. Yes, to me it is not the past, but the present. Today, I made a loaf of bread. It is a simple, satisfying pleasure. I don't do be because I have to, I do it because I love it. I have made this same recipe for country seed and spelt bread into possibly a hundred loaves my now. It is a recipe that is incredibly simple. My mother never believed how easy it was until I moved to Ireland for a year and she started making it herself. "Wow, it's so easy and it can't go wrong," she told me. Indeed. Even when living overseas, I could not stop myself from making bread. I had a mixing bowl, a few measuring cups and spoons and had to get on it with just like the pioneers did. Not that Brennan's bread is no good, it indeed was very good. It's just a part of me, that I want to get my fingers dirty and make bread. Ba