1. We have turned over our email list management to Constant Contact. The task had become a bit unmanageable. If you want quarterly catalogs and have already been receiving them, you should continue to receive them. If you want catalogs and have not been receiving them, enter your email address on the upper right corner of our home page at http://www.potlucktea.com.
From there the rest will be easy. I apologize if folks have been receiving duplicate emails or duplicate coupon codes.  As we suffer growing pains we often look to outsiders to help us.
 
2. Here is my bread recipe.  Remember cooking is art, but baking is science, so vary from it at your own risk.

12 ounces warm water (not hot -- hot water kills yeast)
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt
3-1/4 dry cups of all purpose unbleached flour.

In the water, dissolve the yeast and salt. Wait a minute or two, then add the flour, all at once is okay.  If you are mixing by hand, mix until the dough is shaggy and all of the flour is blended. If you are using a food processor or mixer, blend until the dough is well formed and comes off the side of the bowl easily.

Set in wide bowl and cover loosely with plastic wrap for between 15 and 18 hours.  That's right -- it needs time to rise. It will likely fill the entire bowl right up to the plastic wrap by the time it is ready.

About an hour before cooking, take the dough with wet hands (or hands covered in more flour) and without kneading, form the dough into a ball about the size of a grapefruit. Dust the top with more flour and put an "X" in the top with a serrated knife.

Preheat the oven to 450 with a Dutch oven or other covered iron pot inside the oven.  When the oven is preheated,  put the dough inside the Dutch oven for 30 minutes at 450. After 30 minutes remove the cover from the Dutch oven and bake 15 more minutes.  That's it. Take the bread out and let it cool on a rack.

Do not try to cut the bread before it cools.  When the bread comes out of the oven, you should still hear it snapping and popping inside. That is fine.
Enjoy. And let me know how it went.

Rick
Pot Luck Tea Company