Any Home Bakers Here?

[N F C]

One of my friends made a beautiful gingerbread house one year at a workshop. She boxed it up and stored it in the attic to bring out next year, just like her instructor told her.
When she brought it out at Thanksgiving the next year and found out the mice obviously LOVED living in a gingerbread castle ...

A cute craft that one of the local teachers does with their class is making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. Nice and small and easy to do.

Those mice must have figured they had found the home of their dreams, lol.

 

[sunflour]

One of my friends made a beautiful gingerbread house one year at a workshop. She boxed it up and stored it in the attic to bring out next year, just like her instructor told her.
When she brought it out at Thanksgiving the next year and found out the mice obviously LOVED living in a gingerbread castle ...

A cute craft that one of the local teachers does with their class is making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. Nice and small and easy to do.

Roaches will eat even paint and paper…They devoured some of my fake fall gourds once. Bet all creatures got a bite out of that one...

 

[sunflour]

Pic off the net of one small part of the competiion, don't know what year. But they have 2-3 large rooms filled with gingerbread house entries.
They also have one of the Grove Park Inn by the staff chefs on display…really impressive.

 

[sunflour]

Got the ingredients today to make my hen's some fresh flock blocks:

http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/2013/11/flock-block-knock-off-homemade-chicken.html

Has anyone made any? Gonna try this this weekend. The last 2 flock blocks I bought got black mold on them after only a week or so and had to remove those heavy blocks and throw out in the woods.

 

[simply blessed]

I have so been wanting to try that! Please, let us know how it goes!

 

[sunflour]

I have so been wanting to try that! Please, let us know how it goes!

will do.

 

[sunflour]

made the flock block….it didn't stick together. Came out in clumps….and crumbled all over my kitchen! Scooped it up and pressed it into an aluminum pie plate and will have to see if the hens like it…know they will. Smells so good I could eat it…but put some dried mealy worms in it, and that's the only ingredient I couldn't bear to try.

This is the recipe I used:

http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/2013/11/flock-block-knock-off-homemade-chicken.html


I am sure I kept the dry to wet ingredient ratio's the same…guess I need more sticky stuff. Maybe peanut butter? Any Ideas? I really wanted something that would stay together to hang in the run….

The only thing different, I think, is the molasses…all I could find was unsulfured and it was a lot thinner than what I had bought in the past. Cannot get Blackstrap at a grocery!!!

 

[N F C]

sunflour, that's too bad the block didn't stick together. I was comparing the recipe from Fresh Eggs Daily to the Chicken Chick's recipe. They're very close in ingredients but the Chicken Chick used diced apples and applesauce in hers and the other recipe didn't have a lot of moist stuff to hold together all the dry ingredients...do you suppose that could have something to do with it?

I haven't tried one of these yet but I bet your birds will love what you made.

 

[sunflour]

sunflour, that's too bad the block didn't stick together. I was comparing the recipe from Fresh Eggs Daily to the Chicken Chick's recipe. They're very close in ingredients but the Chicken Chick used diced apples and applesauce in hers and the other recipe didn't have a lot of moist stuff to hold together all the dry ingredients...do you suppose that could have something to do with it?

I haven't tried one of these yet but I bet your birds will love what you made.

I actually thought it may be too dry when I placed it in the oven. One recipe mentioned the raw mix should stick together, mine did not. Thought about adding some peanut butter or more coconut oil + molasses. But I think my problem was the molasses. This brand was thinner than any I have bought before…more like syrup. And I tasted it and it was sweet…most thick molasses is not sweet tasting to me. Gonna find a better brand before I bake my gingerbread house.


But will let the hens have the treat anyway, just won't be able to hang it up….but it does smell wonderful….

 

[N F C]

Yesterday I made Christmas ornaments with cinnamon sticks...they sure smell good. Something about this time of year and warm spices always put me in a holiday frame of mind.