It's an italian bread called Ciabatta. Do you have an oven? Then follow this recipe I used too:

Ciabatta
recipe for four loaves of bread

900 grams or 2 lbs of wheat flour
15 grams or 0.5oz of fresh yeast
½ liter or 17oz of lukewarm water
5 tablespoons milk
olive oil
a pinch of salt

One day before the preparation:
Decrease 5 grams of yeast, dissolve it in a ¼ liter or 8,5oz of lukewarm water and let stand for fifteen minutes.

Then add 350 grams or 0,75 lbs flour, knead into a dough and let it rest covered with a kitchen towel.

Preparation the next day:
Heat the milk in a saucepan (or microwave) on low heat.

Put the remaining yeast with stirring in the lukewarm milk and let it rest for a short time.

Fill up the liquid with the remaining water and about two to three tablespoons of olive oil.

Now incorporate the kneaded mass from the previous day.

Add a pinch of salt and the remaining flour and mix all the ingredients into a dough.

Flour the work surface lightly.

Knead the dough on it, rub with a little olive oil and wrapped in plastic wrap to rest for at least 90 minutes.

Ideally, the dough is somewhat airy and remains stick to your fingers.

Divide the dough into quarters and shape it in loaves - about 12" long and 4" wide.

Put the ciabattas on a floured baking paper - flour it also from above - and let it rest for about two hours covered with a tea towel.

Lay out the baking sheet with a layer of baking paper, flour it and place the loaves on it.

Fry the ciabattas in 25 to 30 minutes in a preheated oven with top and bottom heat at 220°C or 428°F

Ok ? It tastes best when it's still a little warm. And the whole house smells wonderful when it bakes

Buon appetito

Nice progress and a delicious looking bread!

After a long time without progress some news from my home layout .
Since my two cats had often causes damage to the model railway , after the last "attack" i hat to drawn the consequences .

The actual door to this room went on inwards and was thus in the way of my plans .

I now have a simple door frame mounted on the outside of my two kittens out of the room shut out .


one of the next weekends the frame should get a new coat of paint and the door gets a Mural . Then that should look good.

Of course, the affected green area had to be replanted and now since my ITC SW1500 including caboose has just come back from a friend, who is a real weathing artist , it was of course used as the photo background .

The weathering looks great, what did you use for the grass?

Joerg, great scenery!

@Rscott417

Yes, the weathering is fantastic. I call it art.

He is mainly doing german loco and car models but he loves to weather US locos too.

If you want to look on his side: http://www.aw-speziguzi.de

It`s german only but look to the galleries.

I'm not quite sure with the grass.

It seems to be medium green fibers of Woodland Scenics.

@ modelsof1900

Thank you, Bernhard.

Posted in error in the wrong thread!

On the corner segment it should still be a siding of a producer of accessories for the automotive industry. Three tracks each for a box car are available on its sloping ramps for loading. I had glued the solder ties two weeks before, so that I could solder the grooved rail profiles now. The tracks will be later in the pavement. Then I made the first segment of the ramp. It arises from 2mm cardboard and 200g and 80g paper and I painted it with Revell Aqua colors. The steel angle profile at the ramp end, made ​​from 200g paper, gets a painting with the real-rust stuff.











Of course all of this must later become dirty

quick two pictures of the current status:





Next step will be the slope of the former steep section towards the upper town and the street. Then I can fill up the courtyard flush to the top of the grooved rails with dental plaster.

For the factory building I've already ordered Kibri wall panels for the floor. The upper floors arise from Auhagen plates for trapezoidal sheet, so this construction goes on soon.

Next step :

After I smoothed and primed the walls, "court pouring" will be the next.

First I cut off the area with sticks, where nothing should come out.







I glued the segment edges with foam tape and the visible boundaries of the yard become delimited with a sand hill.





Then I roughly measured the surface and calculates the casting volume. Dental plaster can be touched quite thin, what makes it ideal for something like that. Quickly checked again whether the segment is straight, then the plaster could be mixed.

The casting was still easier than expected and the yard was quickly filled.





et voilà



A check revealed that all the seals were ok. Only at one point I got to fill with more sand because behind the wall ther was some water.

Now comes the worst part:

To be patience until the plaster is hard and the water evaporates.

But until then I'll probably had to look every hour

Before I pour the yard again with plaster, I will have finished the ground floor of the factory building. It will then give a precise transition to the ground.

In the week the ordered wall plates from Kibri had come and in that I had the ground floor preplanned I could start it right.





The first plates were connected quickly and holes were cut for windows and doors. From behind strips of the same material were glued to get a little depth into the wall.





Of course, the edges to the wall have to be smooth and the wall joints must be clean scratched. On the left window I have it already made.

The courtyard entrance door gets steel doors with steel frames. I had drawn a template some times ago. I've printed it out, glued it to thin cardboard and cut out.





Windows and doors will be created with the help of textures. I like to use the ones of this page:

CG-Textures

I edit them with Corel Draw.







But before the texture images can be stuck there, the walls needs to be finished and painted with colors.

As far as the current week report.

Wow, that's shaping up very nicely! Thanks for the step-by-step look at progress!
Ralph

The edges and joints are done very good indeed! The scenery is getting great.

,in other words "What Mike said". :mrgreen: