If you are not too far away from the kitchen, you can substitute your microwave timer. I do that sometimes. Other times I take my manuel timer with me to another room. Both work. ... View related article.
I am happy to report my blow fly problem has been solved for a long time. I used the "Raid" spray and "fly strip" to get rid of them. Thanks for your good advice and help.
I read a recipe earlier on this site titled: "Sex in a Pan" and I also have seen it titled "Better than Sex" desert. Both of these are like the "5 Layer cake recipe". I have eaten it and it is SINFULLY good. I love it. Hope this was the one you were looking for. oredwine1933 Fort Worth TX ... View related article.
In the 1930's and 40's the country was coming out of the "Depression". We had no extras, frills, fancy names, just staples, like sugar, flour, salt, pinto beans, peanut butter, syrup, corn meal that you bought in town.You only went to town once a month, sometimes longer between. You bought huge quantities. You raised a hog, chickens, and a cow as well as a garden for your vegetables. Vegetables were canned to eat during the year when winter time came and you could not grow vegetables, The cow provided milk which was used for drinking and cooking, chickens provided eggs for eating and baking, and the hog to eat your table scraps and other feed to fatten up, kill hog in the fall to have bacon, ham, and the rest for food for the year. To preserve the hog meat you had to use sugar cure to preserve it.(No refrigeration).Fresh sweet whole milk had to sit at room temperature for several hours and the cream came to the top. You skimmed that cream off the top and churned the cream. That separated the butter fat from the milk to make real home butter. What was left with flecks of butter in it was buttermilk. So the term sweet milk referred to milk just milked from the cow. It had the butterfat and all in it. After churning and getting the butter out, it had turned sour and made buttermilk. So the term sweet milk was just the whole milk before any processing had occurred,then it became sour/ buttermilk. That is the way I learned it. That is why several mentioned their mother or granny used the term sweet milk. From a 75 year old granny. -:_) oredwine1933 Fort Worth Texas ... View related article.
My aunt used to make a pear honey that was delicious. It did NOT have any honey in it. I have misplaced my recipe but I know this. Mother always said, in making jellies, preserves, jams, breakfast food, use 1 cup fruit to 1 cup granulated white sugar. (Adjust sugar to taste) Wash pears, peel, core and cut up small or grind in food processor, use small amount water to start boiling, continue until fruit is thick. Stir constantly to prevent sticking. If possible, use an aluminum pan as it does not stick or scorch as quick as stainless steel. The Farmers Markets around here sell them from time to time. Really good! oredwine1933, Fort Worth TX ... View related article.
Please, I am wanting to know if someone would tell me the details of how to dress up the top of peach cobbler? The kind of topping where the dough stands up longways in the dish/pan. I saw it at a church lunch and wonder is the trick in refrigerating the dough or making the dough stiffer (less moisture)to get it to stand up in a design. I have been looking on the Internet and so far found nothing like what I saw. This holds it's form and does not dissolve away into the cobbler. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ... View related article.
I live in Fort Worth TX and the local Walmart had fresh green beans for $1.69 per pound in the produce department. This was in the past two weeks. Two summers ago a relative and I went to the Farmers Market and bought black eyed peas by the bushel to can. There was a lot of work and time that went into those black eyed peas. Not long after we canned those I saw a posting about a man who was assisting with shelling and canning peas. He stated that his peas were worth $20.00 per jar due to time, investments, and trouble. I agree. Taste is great but the investment is too great. ... View related article.
How do you play at a "Let's Make a Deal" party? I worked for years and did not watch daytime televsion. Looking for ideas for a party just a "party". We are going to have a small party at church when we reveal out secret pals. ... View related article.
