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Project Discussions: What's Going on in Your Kitchen? |
Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3435 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3435 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2017 : 12:26:45 PM
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Wow, Carole, that is all very fascinating!! Good luck on finding that Unicorn and if you find one...you gotta let us know!! Hope springs eternal!! |
Winnie Nielsen #3109 Red Tractor Girl Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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Lavender Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
420 Posts
Brenda
Jackson
MI
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2017 : 8:31:08 PM
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A while back I posted how to make pan bread from my great grandma's recipe. Well I have been adapting it for today.
Mix together by hand like you would do for biscuits. 3 cups flour, (I use organic flour) 5 teaspoons baking powder 1 3/4 cups water (milk could be used) 1 teaspoon salt (I don't use any)
Place an 8 inch pan on burner, heat between low and medium. Add 2 tablespoons oil of your choice (olive, canola, bacon fat etc.)
Pour in batter and spread to edges. Cover and cook 5 to 8 minutes. You can tell if it starts to burn.
Using a spatula a large one if you have one by tipping the pan up almost on its side as you slide the spatula under the bread and flip it up into the pan as you lower the pan back down on the burner, then cook the other side. Cover again. Since I needed two hands to flip the bread, so I couldn't take a picture.
You can see I left it a little to long and burned the first side a little. If you begin to smell it starting to burn, turn it quickly. Cook second side around 5 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Hope some of you will be able to give this a try.
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Farm Girl Hugs, Brenda #6218
Each day we add to our legacy-good or bad. Our Daily Bread |
Edited by - Lavender Rose on Aug 12 2017 8:36:05 PM |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 05:03:27 AM
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Brenda, love your recipe and how-to-do pictures. Will give it a try. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14 FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3435 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3435 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 07:34:22 AM
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Brenda, I love this cool recipe you shared and I bet it is delicious with some butter and jam! It is also neat that it makes in a cast iron pot on the stove top too. Can't you just imagine your Grandma making this bread on her big wood cook stove? |
Winnie Nielsen #3109 Red Tractor Girl Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 07:59:30 AM
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Funny you mentioned wood cook stove Winnie. Yesterday I ordered The Settlement Cookbook 1903. One of the things in the book is how to start a fire in cook stove. I heard about the book on PBS's American Test Kitchen. They made a cookie recipe out of it. The cookbook was to help immigrates especially from Germany to settle in our country - hence the name. I found it on Amazon. Also ordered one for my sister Betty because she loves reading about the old ways in the kitchen. The book also has a little on canning.
This morning I canned pork roast in the rain. Woke up at 6a.m. to it really coming down so I waited for it to slack up and went to the cottage. Four pints are now in the pressure canner. If it wasn't for the going back & forth to the house I would can in the rain more often. It was neat to hear the rain on the metal roof. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14 FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
1846 Posts
Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
1846 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 09:42:23 AM
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I'm going to have try that recipe using einkorn flour. I'm not sure how the liquid content will need to be adjusted though.
Yesterday I got my 40 pounds of cucumbers canned. Sadly some had molded, with it taking me so long to get to them! But I still ended up with 23 quarts of bread and butter pickles and nine quarts of dill spears! Today I need to can strawberry jam... we picked up 12 pounds, as they were on sale. |
~ Shannon, Sister #5349 Farmgirl of the Month January 2016 http://hudson-everydayblessings.blogspot.com/ |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 10:42:09 AM
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Shannon your pickles sound yummy. Bread & Butter are my favorite.
Don't feel too bad about the moldy cucumbers that happens to me quite often. I buy something on a good day and before I get around to canning MS fatigue drops on me. I have learned to write it off as living with a chronic condition. The other choice is to do nothing for fear I won't be able to finish it. I choose to take the chance that all will be well with me and most of the time it is. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14 FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4631 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4631 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 10:45:38 AM
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When I lived in Nevada for a while, my husband (former) and I bought a blue enameled wood cook stove and when we moved, we put it in our house and used it to heat the family room. A friend had one in Nevada, also, and we completely cooked a Thanksgiving dinner on/in it. Loved doing that. My ex still has that stove and I'd love to get it and bring it here to Texas. It had 6 burners, oven, warming ovens across the top of the burners, and a 20-gallon water reservoir. Loved the look of that stove. |
Linda B quiltee Farmgirl #1919 FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 10:51:07 AM
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Linda the stove sounds wonderful. I always wanted a cream and green one to match my vintage ice box. Wouldn't it be a hoot to can on it. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14 FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4631 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4631 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 10:55:53 AM
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I have seen those, Sara. I love those retro colors, too. |
Linda B quiltee Farmgirl #1919 FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 4:15:51 PM
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Brenda is there any butter or lard or ???added in your bread dough?
Today was a cloudy drizzling morning so I made shrimp gumbo for lunch. |
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
5981 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
5981 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 6:33:08 PM
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I tried something different for pot luck at church today, It was pretty and tasted good. I cut up some cucumbers and poured some strawberry vinegrette over it and then I cut up some strawberries in another bowl and poured the vinegrette over them. At church I put them in a bowl and staggered them in it and it was pretty and not bad tasting , something different and refreshing. You could add sesame seeds to it too. Just something new. hugs |
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done. Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly. Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
1846 Posts
Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
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Lavender Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
420 Posts
Brenda
Jackson
MI
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 8:35:23 PM
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No fat of any kind is used in the pan bread recipe. Only the fat added to the pan. It can have sugar added if you want a sweeter tasting bread. I have made it using whole wheat flour also. Not all whole wheat though or it is real heavy. Spelt flour mixed with all purpose works well too. The liquid is easy to adjust if needed. It doesnt keep long though so I would recommend keeping left overs in the refrigerator.
Shannon that strawberry jam would be wonderful on this bread. Yummy!
As for the wood stove, I'm very fortunate to have a wood cook stove. I love cooking on it in cooler weather lol.... not that in love with the heat in the warm weather. I have even managed to bake in the oven. My brother collects wood stoves and changes them out. He had this stove and decided to swap it out for a smaller stove. He said this one was way to big for the space he had. We bought it from him and I love it.
Oh Sara, my stove is green and cream. Never saw that color before. I really like it. |
Farm Girl Hugs, Brenda #6218
Each day we add to our legacy-good or bad. Our Daily Bread |
Edited by - Lavender Rose on Aug 13 2017 8:50:05 PM |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 9:42:42 PM
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We have creative cooks, Darlene your salad sounds yummy. Thank you Brenda for the clarification of your recipe. Your wood cook stove sounds amazing. Shannon, did you grow your berries? My son told us of a new strawberry farm about eight miles away, where they are planted up high and you walk beneath them to pick them. Of course I was in the middle of dental work and did not feel like going this year. But next year I will certainly check it out. |
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
5981 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
5981 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 9:48:18 PM
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Thanks Marilyn, that strawberry farm sounds great! We have one here but they are all low on the ground, being up would be so much easier to pick. Have a good night all.
Love you all. |
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done. Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly. Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4631 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4631 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2017 : 11:09:38 PM
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Not much going on in my kitchen right now. I am spending ore time finishing sewing projects, traveling, and getting ready for my surgery tomorrow. I DO want to start using my electronic pressure cooker for some roasts and such. I love my crock pots in the fall and winter, especially. One of the 3 I have I plan to put in the motor home. |
Linda B quiltee Farmgirl #1919 FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Carole
Champlain
New York
USA
2087 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2017 : 07:15:08 AM
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Brenda, thank you for the recipe and the visuals. Love you cast iron pan!
Shannon, you've been busy in your kitchen.
I just ordered myself a Double Dutch 5 qt pan
It will also serve as a cloche for my artisan bread. I also treated myself to a bread proofer from King Arthur Flour (I love that site) that has lots of potential. It will keep the temperature constant ... That's technology working for me and NOT the other way around! A definite bonus in a winter kitchen.
Gosh, I can even make large batches of yogurt in it!
As you can see, I'm slowly getting ready to tackle once again the art of bread making. I started baking bread in my late teens and stopped when I bought a bread machine. I'm really itching to get back into it especially with all the wonderful whole grain bread recipes out there.
Catch you later! |
Carole Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011 http://www.carolesquiltingetc.com
Insanity: Doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results ~ Albert Einstein |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2017 : 07:40:57 AM
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Carole, nice Dutch oven and super nice the lid does double duty.
Will have to check out the King Arthur Flour site. We don't have that brand in my part of Texas but I see it advertised on America Test Kitchen on PBS. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14 FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Lavender Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
420 Posts
Brenda
Jackson
MI
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2017 : 8:01:33 PM
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Thanks Carole, I love all my cast iron. I was able to pans years ago when the prices were a lot better. I got a 12 quart Dutch oven at A Quality Farm and Fleet store for $12. It has approximately 3 inch legs on the bottom. It would be a small fortune now.
Anyone have a favorite kind of cookware other than cast iron? |
Farm Girl Hugs, Brenda #6218
Each day we add to our legacy-good or bad. Our Daily Bread |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2017 : 03:30:08 AM
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I love cast iron! I bought a set of Princess stainless steel many years ago. It is heavy bottomed, good stuff. Then I have one piece of leCruset, that my son gave me for Christmas. I love it's thin walls, which means it is not as heavy as regular cast iron. They say cast iron has health benefits. |
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
1846 Posts
Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
1846 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2017 : 05:41:56 AM
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Favorite cookware... hmmmmm.... I obviously love my cast-iron, (by the way Carole - gorgeous piece!), but my other two favorites are stainless steeling stoneware. About thirteen plus years ago, hubby bought a stainless steel set. We got rid of all aluminum and teflon at that point. I suspect I was first introduced to stoneware by Pampered Chef by my mother-inn-law, but that stuff is greats well! I actually just got a new slow cooker that is stoneware that I will use for the first time today. I bought t because you can use it on the stove-top as well as in the oven, in addition to the lack of enamel, which there is debate of whether that leaches leading your food.
I am chronically iron deficient, so coking in my cast-iron is a great way to get a little extra iron ;) |
~ Shannon, Sister #5349 Farmgirl of the Month January 2016 http://hudson-everydayblessings.blogspot.com/ |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4631 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4631 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2017 : 06:07:49 AM
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recipe sounds good - will have to try it. I only have one cast iron skillet right now. I need to get a dutch oven. |
Linda B quiltee Farmgirl #1919 FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2017 : 2:00:02 PM
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Rotisserie chicken on sale today so I made taco soup to can in the morning. I don't have a recipe for canning taco soup so I will follow the pressure and time for putting up chicken and the one for veg soup. Whichever has the longest time I will use. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14 FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Lavender Rose
True Blue Farmgirl
420 Posts
Brenda
Jackson
MI
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2017 : 4:54:58 PM
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Sarah I'm fascinated with all the canning you do. So much healthier and you seem to always have something ready to eat.
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Farm Girl Hugs, Brenda #6218
Each day we add to our legacy-good or bad. Our Daily Bread |
Edited by - Lavender Rose on Aug 16 2017 4:57:07 PM |
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