Any Home Bakers Here?

[Sally PB]

Good morning! Got all my butternut squash cooked and frozen yesterday.

I'm brewing another batch of kombucha today.

I am soooo hoping my compost pile is thawed enough to turn.

Dang, I could post this same thing in the cafe thread and the gardening thread.

I should get one of the pints of squash back out of the freezer to make grownies (my 9x13 pan version of breakfast cookies). I've done it before; use it to moisten the oats. Then, instead of cocoa, use cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves and go for a pumpkin pie type of taste instead of chocolate.

 

[Marie2020]

Good morning! Got all my butternut squash cooked and frozen yesterday.

I'm brewing another batch of kombucha today.

I am soooo hoping my compost pile is thawed enough to turn.

Dang, I could post this same thing in the cafe thread and the gardening thread.

I should get one of the pints of squash back out of the freezer to make grownies (my 9x13 pan version of breakfast cookies). I've done it before; use it to moisten the oats. Then, instead of cocoa, use cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves and go for a pumpkin pie type of taste instead of chocolate.

I really have to make a start on my kombucha, reading your post has reminded me.
I've never made this before. Do I use just tea and sugar, can we use honey? I have a large jar already to go should this be kept in a warm dark cupboard.

Please forgive so many questions

I love squash and must do similar with what I have here.

 

[Marie2020]

Bakers, good morning one and all!

Good morning

 

[Sally PB]

I've never made this before. Do I use just tea and sugar, can we use honey? I have a large jar already to go should this be kept in a warm dark cupboard.

Here's are links that has way more information than I can type out.

Here's how to grow your own scoby (SCOBY = symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)
if you don't have access to one:

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-your-own-kombucha-scoby-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-202596

This is about brewing kombucha:

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-kombucha-tea-at-home-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-173858

Use sugar, not honey. You can make kombucha with honey, but you have to grow a scoby that will work, is my understanding. Honey and kombucha have different bacteria that don't "play well together."

There are a lot of sites about kombucha; it's gotten very popular. I love it. I couldn't afford to drink so much of it if I didn't make my own.

If you have specific questions, just ask. You can spend $$$ on all the stuff you need, but if you have some quart canning jars, you can get started for the cost of the tea, sugar, and a purchased bottle to grow your own scoby.

 

[jnicholes]

Good morning everyone!

 

[Grammy60]

Okay, here's my try at breakfast cookies. I added ocean spray cranberries and walnuts.
Not as pretty as others, but they taste good!

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning everyone!

Good morning Jared , how are you today?

 

[Pensmaster]

Okay, here's my try at breakfast cookies. I added ocean spray cranberries and walnuts.
Not as pretty as others, but they taste good!

I was thinking cranberries would be good.

 

[Aria]

I was thinking cranberries would be good.

YES...with the breakfast cookies and my Banana Nut Muffins...you can
add whatever you like or have dried fruit, ginger, pineapple, sunflower seeds etc. Just DO NOT OVERMIX and all is well. Aria

 

[Grammy60]

I was thinking cranberries would be good.

I love cranberries and use them in all sorts of stuff, so I figured why not. Any good combinations I could use next time, would be greatly appreciated.