Any Home Bakers Here?

[pennyJo1960]

My best egg customer stopped today. Brought a package is 8 hamburger buns for the birds 1 had molded so they where throwing it away .. How perfect they have been buying my eggs for almost 6 years .....
Better than baking here today

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I read that y'all down in southern MO were going to get hit with freezing rain while the Columbia/Moberly area was looking at a boat load of snow.

When I went out this morning to take care of the chickens there was about 4inches or so of snow on the ground and a lot of drifting. It hasn't snowed since around 11 here. Fine by me.

My husband has a three D printer. Amazing what the thing can do. He uses it to make and repair a lot of stuff around the house and farm. Today I asked him to make me a heart shaped cookie cutter. I mean, seriously they want an outlandish price for plastic ones on line. He wondered what I needed a heart shaped cookie cutter for and I told him to make his Valentine's gift! He loves sugar cookies so I'm going to bake and decorate a box of sugar cookies for my sweetheart!

Very cool! I wish my Hunny loved cookies as much as I do!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

But I don’t wanna sell the house - just the floor plan. The way it worked is we found a modular home online that we loved. We started researching dealers and found Hannah. Her reviews were 100% positive and absolutely glowing. Without exception every review talked about how she went above and beyond to set up everything from great finance options to adding the buyers’ options, from ordering the home to arranging delivery and set up. We didn’t have to worry about a single thing. So rather than going back to a big fancy modular home dealership up in Billings, we set up an appointment to go meet with her. She lives in stunning two story modular from the same factory that does all of the homes she sells. It’s a tiny town with a population of about 70. She doesn’t have a big lot with row after row of houses. Instead she had made arrangements with a previous buyer who bought one very similar to what we liked and we went through her home. The owner told us all the things they loved about theirs, what options they got, what changes they made, and what they wish they had or hadn’t done in theirs. We did the same in a few others Hannah had helped the owners get into. People just couldn’t recommend her and her business strongly enough. And because she isn’t paying an arm and a leg to have lots of models set up, there’s no huge overhead markup in the homes she sells. So we took the plunge.

She was here every step of the way. She was here when our beat up old single wide was pulled off our lot. She was here the day they poured the foundation. She was here when delivery was scheduled. She lives over an hour away but she’d stop by and check to see how we were doing. We were living in a small camper and one day her son had a basketball game in a neighboring town. Hannah brought over dinner for us.

Well, now we’re in the beautiful and affordable home she helped us get and it’s our turn to show off our home to prospective buyers. It’s fun!! They get to ask a million questions. They get to see how how our options and changes worked out. They get to see how their design ideas would work in the house. Sometimes we all sit at the table with the floor plan printout and compare what the base mode looks like to what we actually have. And when they leave, there’s a crisp $100 bill on our counter top. The first time we thought it had fallen out of her purse so we called her before she could get too far away. Nope. She said for the disruption in the routines of the owners, she pays $100 per tour.

No brownies or baking needed here!

That's quite a business model!

 

[Sally PB]

It might have been too much starter for the long fermentation-- For a large loaf, I use90G of starter.

That is too much!

Cut the starter to 180G next time and see what you get. You could likely go lower depending on what you get with this amount.

90G is 1\3 of a cup so 180 is about 2\3 of a cup

Oh guru... enlighten me. Less starter for a bigger loaf and/or a long fermentation...? How does that work?

 

[Blooie]

Oh guru... enlighten me. Less starter for a bigger loaf and/or a long fermentation...? How does that work?

Ooh, oh….Teacher, let me answer, let me! if I get it wrong you can correct me!!

It has to do with the ratio of the availability of food (the flour) to the eaters (the starter). Too much starter and the flour is devoured before the bread can rise. Not enough carbon dioxide is able to form to make the bread rise because there’s just too much starter eating the flour. Instead of a nice sourdough yeast taste, you get a super sour, lactic acid taste.

How’d I do, Teacher?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ooh, oh….Teacher, let me answer, let me! if I get it wrong you can correct me!!

It has to do with the ratio of the availability of food (the flour) to the eaters (the starter). Too much starter and the flour is devoured before the bread can rise. Not enough carbon dioxide is able to form to make the bread rise because there’s just too much starter eating the flour. Instead of a nice sourdough yeast taste, you get a super sour, lactic acid taste.

How’d I do, Teacher?

I changed my reaction from Love to Informative. I almost went with Wow! Thanks, Blooie, that really made sense!

(Ugh, New phone, it changed Blooie to Bloomer and I had to change it back. Still have not figured out how to turn off Spell-Hell-per, anybody know? This is an Android, Samsung 21 Super something.) I'll go look in Settings again.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Samsung Galaxy Andriod 21

 

[MotherofOrpies]

For our anniversary, I made a lemon yogurt cake, since I’m still not good at standing for longer stretches, I made it quite simple, it was delicious anyways
The sourdough cake sounds amazing, but the last 5 or 6 years, I can no longer consume cocoa products without lash back , a simple cocoa stops my digestion in a very unpleasant way ( also to others ) so I can’t eat stuff like that anymore, and I do used to love eating chocolate

 

[wyoDreamer]

@MotherofOrpies That looks absolutely fabulous!!
Will you share the recipe? A friend of mine was born in Germany and made a dessert like that for book club once and it was so good! We/They moved away before I got her recipe.

 

[Aria]

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For our anniversary, I made a lemon yogurt cake, since I’m still not good at standing for longer stretches, I made it quite simple, it was delicious anyways
The sourdough cake sounds amazing, but the last 5 or 6 years, I can no longer consume cocoa products without lash back , a simple cocoa stops my digestion in a very unpleasant way ( also to others ) so I can’t eat stuff like that anymore, and I do used to love eating chocolate

Happy Anniversary and what a YUMMY CAKE.
Of course you are going to share the recipe. Aria