Any Home Bakers Here?

[rjohns39]

I'm fine now... but wow it's hard admitting defeat. I'm just not as efficient as I used to be.

 

[ronott1]

I'm fine now... but wow it's hard admitting defeat. I'm just not as efficient as I used to be.

That happened to me when I was raking during the Paradise fire. I found out later that particle masks, raking and very hazardous are is not a good idea, especially when you are going on 60 years old!

 

[DigMyChicks]

Very nice DMC!

The ones in the last picture...are those made with Bugles? What is the white part?

Thanks Debby! Bugles dipped in almond bark with an mm stuck in the end. They are addicting!

Nice Candy!

Thanks Ron!

Did buckeyes but nothing compared to yours beautiful spread there



Alright need to say years ago folks invited me and a friend to dinner she did a spaghetti the sauce had coke in it now unsure how much or anything else but it was horrible could barely choke it down

Thank you, what are Buckeyes?

l baked Ginger Orange bread today. It has candied ginger and orange in it. It is my substitute for fruit cake!

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Looks yummy!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Not sure who posted it first we had a very non PC name for them as a child but also added paraffin wax to the melted chocolate and with the chocolate we added like 2 dozen andes mints so they had that that flavor... We melted our chocolate the old way on the stove

Classic Buckeye
Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cups Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/2 Cup Butter, Softened
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
• 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
• 3 Cups Confectioner's Sugar, Or More As Needed
• 2 Cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips
• 2 Tablespoons Vegetable Shortening

Instructions

1. Add peanut butter, softened butter, vanilla, and salt to a large mixing bowl. Using a hand-held electric mixer, cream together ingredients well blended.
2. Gradually mix in confectioners sugar, beating until well combined.
3. Shape into 1 inch balls and place on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Place in the freezer for 60 minutes.
4. In a microwave safe bowl melt the chocolate chips and vegetable shortening on high for 45 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir vigorously. If needed, microwave at 15-second intervals, stirring after each interval, until mixture is melted.
5. Remove peanut butter balls from freezer. Insert a toothpick in the top center of a peanut butter ball and dip 3/4 of the ball, into melted chocolate, leaving the top without chocolate. allow excess chocolate to drip. Place back on the baking tray.
6. Remove the toothpick and smooth out the hole with a small offset spatula or your fingertip.
7. Allow chocolate to set before serving. Buckeye's can be served at room temperature or cold. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The lady who taught me to cook Italian, would have smacked my fingers with ruler if I even suggested such a thing as coke in the sauce. Come to think of it, had she ever known I used Tomato Sauce and Paste that I didn't make from my own tomatoes, she would have smacked my fingers with a ruler...

That said, when I prepare a country ham, I go through a lot of ginger ale. Three days before cooking it (4 before serving it), I soak it in ginger ale, changing out the ginger ale every day, then I bring it to a boil in ginger ale and simmer it until it's ready (tender and cooked through). Then I cool it, the next day I'll prep it with the glaze and bake it to a finish.

What does the ginger ale do? I am very curious ... and heck am 58 do not think I could process 10 now let alone more could pluck a hen in 3 minutes young as we bought 150 a year to raise and butcher each year

 

[rjohns39]

It helps pull the salt out and adds a bit of ginger flavor as a replacement. It's an adaptation of Martha Washington's recipe, but she used water. It's something my grandmother taught me, but she made her own ginger ale. I don't have enough crocks or space to store them to do that.

 

[DigMyChicks]

Not sure who posted it first we had a very non PC name for them as a child but also added paraffin wax to the melted chocolate and with the chocolate we added like 2 dozen andes mints so they had that that flavor... We melted our chocolate the old way on the stove

Classic Buckeye
Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cups Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/2 Cup Butter, Softened
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
• 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
• 3 Cups Confectioner's Sugar, Or More As Needed
• 2 Cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips
• 2 Tablespoons Vegetable Shortening

Instructions

1. Add peanut butter, softened butter, vanilla, and salt to a large mixing bowl. Using a hand-held electric mixer, cream together ingredients well blended.
2. Gradually mix in confectioners sugar, beating until well combined.
3. Shape into 1 inch balls and place on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Place in the freezer for 60 minutes.
4. In a microwave safe bowl melt the chocolate chips and vegetable shortening on high for 45 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir vigorously. If needed, microwave at 15-second intervals, stirring after each interval, until mixture is melted.
5. Remove peanut butter balls from freezer. Insert a toothpick in the top center of a peanut butter ball and dip 3/4 of the ball, into melted chocolate, leaving the top without chocolate. allow excess chocolate to drip. Place back on the baking tray.
6. Remove the toothpick and smooth out the hole with a small offset spatula or your fingertip.
7. Allow chocolate to set before serving. Buckeye's can be served at room temperature or cold. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.

So it’s a bon bon. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[Aria]

I don't do meds... but today, 3 back and body bayer were in order. I had to take breaks, which is unusual for me, of course I was processing in cold rainy weather. I just feel like I got my butt kicked today. But the processing is done. Tomorrow we can weigh, bag and freeze the birds. Hopefully in the warmer months I can do better. I can still part a chicken in 3 minutes and clean two gizzards per minute. I think today I was flirting with a cold. Kept getting hot and dizzy while working the birds.

That happens when you RUSH and DO MORE in one day. SLOW
DOWN....there is always another day. I know the feeling. We do the same. Rest today. Aria

 

[JanetMarie]

Cinnamon pecan crescent tarts, ginger snaps, coconut macaroons (chocolate and vanilla), and peanut butter cookies. Tweaked the peanut butter cookie recipe by using einkhorn flour instead of AP white flour, used whole cane (rapadura) sugar instead of white cane sugar, and cut the amount of sugar in the recipe by 1/2 (much yummier).

 

[N F C]

Nice looking cookie assortment @JanetMarie

Merry Christmas