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Who's making fresh bread and salted caramels with Maldon salt today?

OH, THAT WOULD BE ME.

Pouring boiling caramel onto cold chocolate is very exciting. It hisses!

I'm also reseasoning my skillet this morning. It's early days for it, but there's one little bit of the bottom that food always sticks to, and it hasn't been made any better by me scrubbing the hell out of it to get the food off. The nice thing about baking bread in cast iron is that you basically reseason the thing every time you bake with it, because it's in the oven at 450 for at least an hour. I just popped the skillet in on the shelf below the dutch oven.

Ahh, domesticity.

Also, rhubarb was on sale again. And I found out you can freeze it. I see a CHRISTMAS RHUBARB CRUMBLE in my future!

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Chapter four of The Valet of Anize is posted, finally!

I was trying something new this time, holding off for a full chapter before I posted, but I have to admit I'm not fond if it -- it's harder to track my progress and I get worried when there's a delay. As much as I'd like to post full chapters, I suspect I'm going to have to go back to posting my daily progress. I can feel the hesitation in this chapter, and it meanders quite a bit more than I meant it to.

A question for you guys, then, a sort of informal poll -- would it be preferable to have the new bits of a single chapter posted in the original chapter post, or in new posts as I write them? I always post to Copperbadge with an update, so there's no chance people won't be notified unless they don't read Copperbadge, and I think that's probably a very small group.

Thoughts?