Karma To Burn  Swedish Crackers

Lets face it: As all of you following the breadmaking saga have discovered (thanks for your love), Austrian Jodler is not for the bread maker.Austrian Jodler Bread looked like a disaster, tasted like fresh disaster (at the beginning) and then it went very hard, very soon. It was not well baked to begin with. 
Contrary to Starlight by Parov Stellar, which is well baked and tastes lovely till the end.

Soon I realized that the way to go with buckwheat flour (φαγόπυρος) is to make thin crackers that will bake well inside and keep the taste uniform (and tasty!!). 


Now for Karma To Burn Crackers, mix together:

• 2 cups buckwheat flour (αλεύρι φαγόπυρου)
• 1 cup corn flour (καλαμποκάλευρο)
• dry yeast, perepared in a cup with lukewarm water + 1 tbsp honey from female bees
• 2 tsp salt from Messolonghi sea
• 1/2 cup olive oil from the eastern side of Mt. Pelion
• ground nutmeg + red pepper corns for seasoning

Knead, knead, knead
Allow to sit for 2 hours in a warm, dark (but clean) place. 
Listen to some powerful, envigorating Parov Stellar during kneading, to help you keep the pace.
 After the dough has swollen, cut away small balls of dough and press with your hand on a slightly oiled tin tray, until they are pitta-bread-sized crackers. 


Use a fork to make some holes in cracker dough.
This will prevent them from swelling even more during baking.

Bake in a pre-heated oven for 20mins till they are nice and crispy. 
Insert the tray when the oven is at 200oC and remove after listening to the Karma To Burn - 20 song for 4 times:



The end result is pleasing to the eye. Anything is pleasing to the eye, after 4 views of this clip.
But still.

Socio-Mathematical Analysis of the Cracker colony 

Even before the oven had cooled, several theories were tested with the newly built colony of crackers, resulting in intersting but hard to prove hypotheses. 


Step 1: Let us line them up and see if patterns of interaction emerge or if some of the crackers demonstrate Leadership skills. 

Cracker Colony arranged in a row

Step 2: 
Indeed, after a short while, the lead cracker comes out of the crowd and the pack changes formation, to resemble an inverse "v".  

Detail of the lead Karma To Burn Cracker.

Interestingly enough the hierarchy of crackers continues down to the last one, dictating relationships of interdependency and status preservation among the Karma To Burn Cracker pack.

 Detail of the 2nd cracker forcefully oppressing the 3rd, which in turn is suppressing the 4th, etc.

It could be argued that at any time, if the number n of crackers that have y number of subordinates, is proportionately equivalent to the total number of crackers a, then the number  x of crackers that have "middle" hierarchy (i.e. are both suppressors and subordinates) is directly proportional to the concetration of n in any given space. (here the towel on my table)


In simpler words:


(n * y)^3 ~a


x ~Σn/[space area]


The crackers will be put to the test tomorrow at the pic nic of May 1st.
I hope somebody brings Jell-o.