Paul-Do you mind sharing your recipe for this? My wife has been making sourdough bread and pancakes for a few weeks now, so we have starter. I've been making buttermilk cornbread for many years, though I leave the serious bread baking to the pros like my wife. Now cornbread on the other hand, I can do!
Enjoying the side conversations about wages over the years too. Other than some childhood money-making attempts like selling GRIT newspapers door to door (remember those?), my 1st actual job was working under-age (14) off the books at a drive-in. The owner was an immigrant who had eight kids, all of whom worked for him in some capacity. He paid me $5 cash per shift as a curb-hop, plus whatever I could make in tips. On weekends when the drunks would come in in their hot-rods, I did pretty well (though cleaning up the parking lot at the end of a shift was not fun). At 18 I got a job at the local Stouffer's food processing plant making $6.45 an hour, and lived like a king on it. That company paid 90% of my college tuition after I went back, back when companies still did stuff like that. I worked 2nd shift with all the other party animals who would go out after work until the wee hours, then get up in the afternoon to do it all over again-sometimes I miss those days.