Any Home Bakers Here?

[ValerieJ]

What is the Better way to ship Cookies & Bread to Florida? Should
I use the Post office boxes or just a cardboard box? Need to ship
a box. Thanks Aria

Use the one rate boxes. I ship out 8-10 boxes of cookies every year and have paid $35-40 when I didn't use them to get a box across the country.

 

[ValerieJ]

Oh, @N F C and @ValerieJ ~ Thank you both so much for your encouragement and support! I made a batch of SGBR, 1 1/2 c rice to 6 c water, 1/2 tsp salt. In MW cooker at 70% power for 35 minutes. Some of the water had boiled out into the glass pie dish I always put under the cooker, and it was still a little chewy to my taste. So I poured that water back in and put it back in for 10 minutes more at 70%. Then I let it stand, covered, for another 5-10 minutes and am happy with the results. Thank you both!

Perfect! I'm glad it worked for you! I always have to cook brown rice for a long time too.

 

[ValerieJ]

Only as it is native and relatively rare in my location. I have mowed down a couple that seeded themselves. Yes the tropical milkweeds are better suited to making large stands for the monarchs, but do not tolerate drought conditions well. I prefer not watering.

Ha ha...I just deleted that question after I read further and realized you were all supporting the Monarchs. That's such an awesome thing to do!!!

 

[ValerieJ]

Thank you Debby
These are the cookies I did for the Funeral Home for the smorgasbord that got cancelled. I still get paid. My sister did some of the decorated ones. She’s better then me...the second time she has done them. She’s the painter.
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Those are good looking cookies!

 

[N F C]

What is the Better way to ship Cookies & Bread to Florida? Should
I use the Post office boxes or just a cardboard box? Need to ship
a box. Thanks Aria

I vote for the flat rate PO boxes too Aria. When son was in college I used to send him care packages and those boxes saved me a lot of money.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Baking dog dinner doing it differently this time.
1C AP Flour
13 silkie eggs
1C before cooking white rice.
1/4C Dog food to line the base of each form.

Bake at 350F approximately 20 mins until thermometer reads 200F.

Dough AP flour and margarine to do it Quiche style

Makes 8 servings for large dogs.

 

[ValerieJ]

Baking dog dinner doing it differently this time.
1C AP Flour
13 silkie eggs
1C before cooking white rice.
1/4C Dog food to line the base of each form.

Bake at 350F approximately 20 mins until thermometer reads 200F.

Dough AP flour and margarine to do it Quiche style

Makes 8 servings for large dogs.
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Lucky dog!

 

[wyoDreamer]

@AllenK RGV I love that pan!!
I bet your dogs love you so much when you put that in their dish. Do you freeze the Dog Quiches until needed? Or do you use them up fast enough that they don't go bad.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Curious Idea Allen like the change might work better on Snow she is never been a big eater she is the Mareema, Mosse eats what does not move fast enough but loves his kitty's

 

[AllenK RGV]

@AllenK RGV I love that pan!!
I bet your dogs love you so much when you put that in their dish. Do you freeze the Dog Quiches until needed? Or do you use them up fast enough that they don't go bad.

I just refrigerate until the next feeding, and garnish with stale crusts in their bowls. Right now I still have them working on a loaf of bread I forgot to salt. None of our dogs are fat and are almost exclusively fed kibble. The lab also supplements her diet with undiscovered by human eggs, compost, and any bag I forgot and left out before going to bed. Then there are some cat litter raiders(lab and pittie).