Abnegation

Recipe from The Comfort of Cooking

Selfless Bread

What you need:

3 cups all purpose flour

2-3 tsp kosher salt

1/2 tsp dry yeast (active dry or highly active dry work the best)

1 1/2 cups lukewarm water

How to make it:

In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, and yeast.

Add water and stir using a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a cohesive dough (do not over work the dough).

Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap.

Let the dough sit at room temperature for 8-24 hours (dough will bubble up and rise).

After dough is ready, preheat the oven to 450˚F.

Place the Dutch oven, uncovered, into the preheated oven for 30 minutes.

White the Dutch oven preheats, turn the dough onto a well-floured surfaced surface and with floured hands, form a dough into a ball.

Cover dough loosely with plastic wrap and let rest.

After the 30 minutes are up, carefully remove the Dutch oven.

With floured hands, place the bread dough into preheated Dutch oven.

Replace the cover and bake for 30 minutes covered.

Carefully remove the cover and bake for 7-15 minutes more, uncovered.

Carefully remove bread to a cutting board and slice with a bread knife.

Serve up with some special butters and ENJOY!

Recipes from The Elliott Homestead

Benevolent Butters

Berry Good Butter

What you need:

1/2 cup fresh unsalted butter (softened)

2 TBsp raw honey

2 TBsp strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, or any other berry preserve of choice

Seeds of one vanilla bean

Lemony Rosemary Butter

What you need:

1/2 cup fresh unsalted butter (softened)

1/2 cup tsp lemon zest

1 1/2 tsp fresh rosemary (minced)

1/2 tsp sea salt

Mediterranean Butter

What you need:

1/2 cup fresh unsalted butter (softened)

2 TBsp feta cheese (crumbled)

1 TBsp sundried tomatoes (drained and minced)

1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)

1/2 tsp fresh chives (minced)

small pinch of sea salt

How to make them:

Simply combine all the ingredients together in a bowl and used a spoon to squish and combine.

Put in a bowl or wrap in parchment paper and refrigerate until needed.

Spread on some fresh baked bread and ENJOY!

   

A little about Abnegation....

DEFINITION: [Pronounced: Ab-neg-ay-shun] l. to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce. 2. to relinquish; give up. --active forms of ­stripping things from your life. As opposed to relinquish, give up-- more passive.

HISTORY: Abnegation was formed by those who blamed selfishness for human nature's errors. They believe in selfless actions and attaining peace through the elimination of selfishness. By doing so, they choose to completely forget themselves and only serve others.
TRAITS: Sit quietly and wait. Bow heads, a sign of respect, when greeting each other. Not manipulative, but not forthright.Their morally incorruptible quality makes them the only reasonable faction to be able to govern the city as political leaders.
PHYSICAL TRAITS: Clothing is gray and simple. The only adornment allowed is a watch. Female Abnegation typically wear their hair in a bun/knot. 
ABNEGATION INITIATION: The initiates, who will spend thirty days performing community service before they can become full members, sit side by side on a bench while one of the older members reads the Abnegation manifesto. Then all of the older members wash the initiates feet. They all share a meal, each person serving food to the person on his left.  
NICKNAME: 'Stiffs'. 
RELATIONS: On good terms with Amity; unknown relationship with Candor; on neutral terms with Daunless but opposing views on violence; rivals to power-seeking Erudite. 
CURRENT LEADER: Marcus Eaton. 
FACTION MANIFESTO: 

* copied from The Divergent Life