Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.
I haven’t tried it myself yet, but you can get yeast improvers , a powdered ‘mother yeast’ that claims similar results to sourdough.
I have a starter in the fridge that I only use once every two or three weeks, and have not had any mould problems; perhaps you just have to be only a little less lazy to keep a viable one, and feed on that sort of a schedule?
I agree though, that making sourdough bread can be a nuisance time-management-wise until you find some sort of rhythm that suits you.
I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
(Samuel Beckett)
I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:
There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.
Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.
Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.
These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?
Thank you. He did owe him a (trifling) mina of silver, though; how much copper is that worth, I wonder?
Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.