Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

Oooh what color pattern is that....  very pretty.

deb

Believe that's chocolate cuckoo...

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Tankyou

 

[Ravynscroft]

Tankyou 

Welcome!

 

[vehve]

I like the personality of our Maran. Best bird in our flock.

 

[Amberjem]

U r a crazy chicken lady

is that a bad thing?

 

[Amberjem]

mine lay very dark eggs, and some have spots...

but they do NOT lay well.

was reading something bout how the better the egg color darker the less they lay or something........

 

[Amberjem]

sorry my system crashed and then my son got home......are those wellies? and what is that one with the crest on it's head?

 

[Amberjem]

I like the personality of our Maran. Best bird in our flock.

which ones your maran?

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

I dont know if anyone else takes these kind of shortcuts during the gardening seasons But we are very busy chopping wood and gardening with more activities in and around church ( yes church) as well as running the roads to the VA. So short cuts are a requirement around here. I posted this and felt the need to repeat it here if that does not break any rules. If it does break rules it is not my intention to do so, So here I go...
I plan to make beer in a couple of weeks. Liquid bread. I bottle it and store it in the refrigerator and use it for my bread. I get into the late Spring, Summer and early fall time that is about half a year and use it it for no knead beer batter bread. Also is good in soups suchas Welsch Rabbit. The alcohol burns off in the 375-400 degree oven and There is no need for water or yeast to be added to bowl. Just pop a top to a bottle and pour onto the mixture. The flour mixture is already done up and jarred by that time also. I use the no oxygen packets in the large jars when storing. It is mix and pour into loaf pan.

I get to a point when I am gardening and running the roads I dont have time to waste and find that it is so easy to make my bread on the run during about half the year and during about half that year I usually dont have the wood burning heater fired up so I dont have that to rise my bread dough. Not putting my dough outside in the sun to rise either. Cattle farm next door. Chicken farm here. Flys and Japanse beetles a problem even at this altitude.
It is a great short cut and wondered if others prep that way also. The homemade beer is also good to pour over a cut or burn. It helps restore lost electrolytes from perspiring in the fields gardening and cuttiing down trees and chopping wood too. Oh it is not for drinking, it is for culinary and medicinal purposes...we do have a short growing season up here for things fragile like a vegetable garden.

One of the by products of making beer is the abundance of billowy flowy fluffy yeast that grows and grows. I feed it to my chickens in their feed. A nice mush for them and they seem very happy.

 

[vehve]

No knead beer batter bread sounds interesting. I might try something similar with just commercial beer at some point. The beer making process isn't for me, I don't have the space for it. If I were to make something at home, cider or apple wine would be what I would make, I find that it's easier to get to a taste I like. I think we tried making beer with my dad sometime when I was younger, but it wasn't a success, we did much better with the apple based products. My grandmother had this huge apple tree in her front yard, the crown of it was maybe 25 feet high and 25 feet wide. It grew these tiny 1½ inch apples that were really sour. They tasted horrible when you ate them, but if you put a huge tarp underneath the tree and shook it, you could easily get hundreds of pounds of apples, and there was a pressing station near by, the sour juice made an excellent base for wine and cider. We discovered ten bottles of the stuff up in a closet about 8 years after we had made it once, it was really good after it had been stored for a long time.