Domestic Report

Yesterday afternoon my sewing machine stopped working. Like, the shaft refused to go up and down (I'm sure there's a more engineering-like way to say this, but that's what happened). So today I took it in to my repair shop. Apparently, with the amount of use I've been giving the poor thing, a massive amount of lint had built up under the , got impacted under the bobbin, and stopped everything cold. Nice chap at the shop pulled out the lint and the machine worked again. Also: I should change my needle "after every other project" which is a hard metric to define when I'm just endlessly making masks. I said, "so every two weeks?" He nodded. So that's sorted.

Also yesterday, I started a batch of sourdough cinnamon sugar doughnuts. it's a somewhat involved process, in that it requires an overnight proofing. but the only rising agent was the sourdough itself: they rose like gangbusters (these things are the width of DVDs). The texture is distinctly not cake-like: they're crispy outside and fluffy inside. They also (for my money) don't have much flavor other than the cinnamon sugar. So if I try these again, I'm going to mess about with the sugar in the batter itself (and maybe add more cardamom), and I'm going to make them smaller. Overall, I consider the experiment successful, and I'm bundling most of them off to send to my daughter, who was expressing a need for doughnuts.