Learning to make prosphora with natural yeast (‘sourdough’) starter has been a challenge. After initial failures, we seem to have found a method that works, but always there is room for improvement.
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Learning to make prosphora with natural yeast (‘sourdough’) starter has been a challenge. After initial failures, we seem to have found a method that works, but always there is room for improvement. In 2009, Father Nilus and I celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastea. A gate in the garden emerges into the sunlight. Πᾶσα σὰρξ ὡς χόρτος καὶ πᾶσα δόξα αὐτῆς ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου· ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν· τὸ δὲ ρῆμα Κυρίου μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word […] After a few weeks, the petals fall to the ground and new leaves appear. […] Spring arrives early in Sinai, with the first warm days in the middle of February. […] |
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