Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

...the blood of evil enemies??

 

[Outpost JWB]

I've got one heck of a large collection of old soda bottles and beer cans from rummaging through old dumps in the woods when I was a teen. I've found really neat milk bottles also, but sold them.

I have a nice little bottle collection. All of which I have purchased or been given. When I looked up the value online, it's not worth it to sell. Just hold onto them until maybe the value will go up, or just keep them for decorations.

Edited to add....some are canning jars. Pretty cool to think some of the jars I have are from 1800s! Been using this iPad to byc, just gotta figure out the whole picture thing to post pics. Lol!

 

[Beer can]

I have a nice little bottle collection. All of which I have purchased or been given. When I looked up the value online, it's not worth it to sell. Just hold onto them until maybe the value will go up, or just keep them for decorations.

Edited to add....some are canning jars. Pretty cool to think some of the jars I have are from 1800s! Been using this iPad to byc, just gotta figure out the whole picture thing to post pics. Lol!

The milk bottles people collect big time, and I didn't have a interest in, only reason I sold them. I've found little bottles and medicine bottles also. The soda bottles and beer cans I like, not worth much.
I have a large really old Fawn soda bottle still sealed from cleaning out my great uncles house after he died, and a 22oz Coors Light beer baseball bat from the late 80s still sealed, the only two in the house, the rest in the garage. I bought many old beer cans, .25cents each at a antique place. I even had a 'Billy Beer' can, made for President Jimmy Carter's brother, lol wife did not allow that one in the house, got it just because it's a piece of history. Found steel Budweiser and Ballantine cans in a old bluestone quarry under a stone, opened with a can opener. Lost most of these when our garage burned, salvaged one old Coca Cola bottle, It's melted and deformed and looks shattered but you can still read Coca Cola on it, the start of my new collection. Luckily my dad had most of the bottles I collected in my teens in his garage, just gave them to me recently, still in boxes, haven't made shelves yet. Biggest losses in that fire, it burned to the ground, was my bottle and can collection, and every set of deer horns I had since I started hunting, put them in there two weeks before the fire. I had a Gennesse soda bottle, big regional beer brewer, never have seen another. I emailed Gennesse and sent pics asked them the history of it, they never heard of it, had their address printed on the back of the bottle. The antique place I bought cans from never heard of it either but said they probably made it during prohibition. That one might have been worth some money, though I would have never sold it.

 

[Alaskan]

Wow beer can! That rocks! And also burns! (Yep, pun intended )

I had a great skull collection.. Left it at my parents during my "wandering years". They put them out in their back yard and a squirrel ate them all!!!

I had the skull of the horse I road as a kid, a dog skull that I stuck for a year under a fire ant mound to get cleaned...

Whatever.., there were a bunch... I am still bummed

 

[vehve]

Al, made from sugar beets here, but molasses is probably similar. Definitely a lot darker than maple syrup.

 

[Beer can]

@vehve Homebrew supply has different grades (colors) of beet syrup. Mainly used to strengthen Belgian ales, and add color without adding the dry coffee like flavor that roasted barley adds to stouts.
Like the liver recipe, don't know if I'd like the raisins it. I may give it a try.
Gramma always made rice 'pudding' when I was a kid. Well done rice served hot with milk sugar cinnamon and raisins.

 

[Beer can]

Alaskan I have a big cow skull hanging from our chicken coop. And a horse shoe hanging above the door. That's why the predators leave our coop alone, lol!

 

[vehve]

Beer, that's the huge dilemma here too. Some people like it with raisins, and other people are just wrong

Oh, and actually, I just started looking into the ingredients in the dark syrup sold here, apparently they actually do use molasses in it. But it's not as dark as pure molasses, so maybe a 2:1 mix of molasses and something like maple syrup or light cane syrup would work well. Although, the amount of syrup in that whole dish is so small, that using purely molasses is probably fine too.

By the way, if you want to make a bread that tastes like a Finnish Christmas loaf, make a basic wheat dough, and add about half a cup of molasses and a tablespoon of ground caraway to a dough made with about 2 lbs of flour. Really tasty.

My regular dough is 1 kg (2.2 lbs) wheat flour, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp dry yeast, 7 dl (just shy of 3 cups) of (lukewarm) water, ½dl (quarter cup) canola oil, plus whatever seasonings I'm in the mood for. Mix everything but the oil together, and work it into a nice dough, add oil towards the end. Let sit in a covered bowl in a draft free, warmish place over night. Then I like to work the dough together again to break all the bubbles and distribute them evenly, and then I put the dough on a sheet of baking paper and lift it back in the covered bowl, and let it rise for a few more hours. Then I take a 7 quart cast iron pot, and heat it in the oven (225C/435F), lift the sheet with the dough into the pot and put the lid on, bake for 30 min, take lid of and slightly lower the temperature, and bake for another 15-20 minutes. After that I lift the bread out of the pot and knock on the bottom, if it makes a hollow sound the bread is ready.

That bread lasts us over a week usually, I just slice it and freeze once it's cooled and thaw in the toaster as needed. Other things I like to season with include caramelized onion, or rosemary, or other herbs, garlic works too, once I made a bread with some leftover tomato sauce for pizza, and basically the imagination is your limit.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Bread pudding sounds good right about now. Need to get some good rum for that

I have horseshoes decorating the coop as well. I bought them (used) at the flea market from a lady who races horses. 25cents each!

 

[Alaskan]

raisens should never be put in food