Switch Off.
An insight into how two individuals disconnect from social media and technology, finding solace in switching off.
Ingredients
500g strong wholemeal bread flour
1⁄2 tsp. salt
1⁄2 tbsp. dried yeast
A pinch of sugar
2 tbsp. olive oil
300ml luke warm water
Method
Mix the yeast with a small amount of warm water and the pinch of sugar in a small dish
In a jug, add the olive oil and warm water
Add your flour to a large mixing bowl, then add the yeast and combine, the mixture will still be quite dry
Slowly add in the warm water, ensuring it is not too hot as this could kill the yeast
Mix everything together by hand, kneading once incorporated into a dough
Place into an oiled bowl and set aside in a warm place to rise. Preheat your oven to 220 degrees
Once doubled in size, knock back the dough and form into shapes, place these onto a tray and put aside to rise once again
Once risen so they are slightly bigger, place into the oven, a er 10 minutes turn the oven down to 190 degrees and allow to cook for around 20-30 minutes, until golden brown.
Up before the hens, my daughter. Just her and the cows in the blue hour. Them tugged of milkweight and loosed to steam like warm loaves in the cold air.
Her in an apron, hair pulled into a bun. I know how she works: the way she takes the dough's wet slack, punches it down into flour. The pale caves her knuckles make, like the hollows le by sleeping deer. The future is yellow. The first finger of light on the land. the smear of bu er on the heel of bread. But not for hours. First the farmers, the bakers. The definite moon turning sheer. -Cheryl Pearson
painting.
No ma er how many times we felt alone in our lives, it didn’t ma er anymore, we had each other. We were new; naked. We were white sheets hung over walls of beginnings, the artists of each others destiny. -Christopher Poindexter
walking.
In my head I am walking but I am not in my head, where is there to walk, not a thought of, is the road itself more than seen. I think it might be, feel as my feet do, and continue, and at last reach, slowly, one end of my intention.
- Robert Creeley
With thanks to Gavin and Sandra for giving an insight into how they switch off.
Photography by Cerys Wrobel Created on behalf of Aesop.