This is a very easy recipe for waffles. My mother has been making this recipe for years. And I have been asking for it for years. She didn't have a recipe, she just threw things together and came out with good waffles every time. Probably some of you have mothers like that or you are a cook like that. But I go by the directions for the most part because I am not a cook like my mother.
At rate, we decided to get the recipe written down for other people in the family (including me). We measured everything and tested and tasted to make sure it was right. So here goes....
5 cups flour 1/2 sugar 4 heaping plastic teaspoons of baking powder (well this is not so exact, probably "rounded" would be a better term). 2 level tsps. salt (sparse) 1/4 cup oil 4 cups milk 3 large eggs (or 4 medium).
In one bowl, beat the eggs until mixed, then add the other liquid ingredients and stir until mixed.
In another very large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients.
Pour wet ingredients into the large bowl of dry ingredients about a third at a time and mix. I use a large wooden spoon to do this. You might to use a mixer.
When all of the ingredients are mixed, let the bowl sit for about five minutes. Stir again. If the batter is too thick, add a little milk. If the batter is two thin, added a little flour. Stir. This is where I begin to sound like my mother: the batter should be the consistency of karo syrup. (help me out here). It shouldn't be watery and it shouldn't be hard to stir. It should be somewhere in the middle.
Just put in the waffle iron and bake til done. We have used this recipe for years. It is easy, it is a lot more nutritious than the boxed waffle mixes (look at all the eggs and milk). It could probably be more nutritious if you added some wheat flour. (If it is all wheat flour it will be heavy).
We had the meal moths for a long time...we used traps, etc. They came in a bag of dogfood. We didn't know they were there or what they were until we looked them up on the internet. Once they were out, they got into everything that wasn't sealed in plastic or tins. We even found them between our paper napkins. We did finally get rid of them. ... View related article.
You are probably going to want to tie the quilt about every three to four inches. So put a tie in on each of the corners and one in the middle of the square. I have made a few tie quilts, but my grandmother made a lot of them. ... View related article.
Of course, there are the candy bars, World's finest chocolates.
WE were having these same discussions at our band booster meeting.
Here are a few ideas, one of them pretty off the wall.
One group of people bought brand name toilet paper from a manufacturer or a wholesale supplier. They went door to door selling it. People laughed when they found out what they were selling, but almost every house bought some. It made a lot of money. The principle is this...find something that people are going to buy anyway...and sell it to them at a fairly reasonable price.
Other people have sold flats of flowers and hanging baskets. This is fairly labor intensive because people have to go to the warehouse and pick them up and deliver them. For these items, the orders and the payment are taken in advance.
Ask people to donate in nice items in certain categories and sell them on Ebay. Try to find out what is hot...and go from there. Things that seem to sell well are Creative craft stuff (but only in certain categories: rubber stamps--especially sets, scrapbooking supplies, quilting fabric with themes such as cats, dogs, bugs, music, etc., (Cut them up accurately into 4, 5, and 6 inch squares and sell in lots of 30 squares. The mailing cost is minimal, but you can make a little money on shipping, too. Charge 2.00 for shipping, the actual cost of shipping is about 1.00 or less), certain newer craft related books sell pretty well...quilt books, knitting books, books on autism or asperger's syndrome, depression glass, milk glass, etc. The thing with eBay is that you have to research your categories both for pricing information and for information on whether those items sell at all. It does cost money to list on eBay...so there is some cost involved, but think of the percentage you will make compared to other fund raising ideas. Especially if the items are donated. Certain brand name clothing sells well...again do your research. Clothes in very good conditioin sell pretty well: Liz Claiborne, Coldwater Creek, Levi Jeans, Lands End, etc. Those are the brands that I buy. Naturalizer shoes have a pretty good follwowing.
Always pack items very well, but don't make the mistake of taking your items to a mailing store like Mailboxes, etc. That will eat up your profits in a hurry.
We have a family of two adults and three teenagers. Any leftovers go in the freezer for lunch for my husband and I. Our lunches are the envy of the lunch crowd. ... View related article.
I shop at Aldi's too...and what you say is true. Plus there are ways to eat healthy even if you don't have an Aldi's or a Save-A-Lot store. One of the items is Quaker old fashioned oats. I cook individual servings in the microwave. And the serving size on the box is much more satisfying than you get in one of the envelopes of instant oatmeal, not to mention healther. Old fashioned oats still have their natural fiber. Instant oatmeal has been stripped of its fiber. My doctor told me to try Citracel. That kind of fiber does not agree with me. I do better eating natural fiber like old fashioned oats or Raisin Bran.
We probably do 75% of our clothing shopping at thrift stores. (I have one son I have to order items for at Landsend or Old Navy because he is so tall and thin...but that will change when his weight catches up with his height).
As for the rest of us...My daughters have long legs relative to their height. It would take me hours of driving and days of shopping to go to the various retail outlets to find many different kinds of jeans that could possibly fit them (there are only about 10-20 different kinds at most stores). But I can go to my local thrift outlet and get several more different brands of jeans at the "same size" for them to try on...many of them new. It may take only a couple of hours and perhaps only two shops to find three or four pairs of jeans for each of them.
I also buy professional clothing at thrift shops for myself.
It does help that there are several very large thrift stores in our area (think the size of a big box store like Best Buy). ... View related article.
You can also stretch a box of Hamburger, Tuna, or Chicken helper the same way....I add a couple of handfuls of similar pasta (I have several on hand)...and often stir in a pound of a frozen veggie, a can of veggies, or fresh. This makes a hearty meal for a family of five, including 3 teenagers. ... View related article.
