Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

[Sequel]

Oh, I will sleep later on.
i started sour dough a few times. never figured out how to use it in a recipe, though,
I like pancakes. had them once.

I have some waffle batter fermenting on the kitchen counter overnight. Someone posted it in the baking thread here on BYC. I also got an easy recipe for sourdough bread that I bake every week. I rarely eat pancakes or waffles because I am diabetic but once in a while….

 

[jvls1942]

I have some waffle batter fermenting on the kitchen counter overnight. Someone posted it in the baking thread here on BYC. I also got an easy recipe for sourdough bread that I bake every week. I rarely eat pancakes or waffles because I am diabetic but once in a while….

is there a ratio of sourdough/flour for the recipes ?

 

[Callender Girl]

Looks like I'm late to the party! I've been up since 3 a.m. but got distracted by an email that I should have responded to yesterday.

The overnight waffle batter sounds intriguing!

Speaking of yesterday, I had an appointment to have my left hand looked at, since I've had some issues recently. However, I was too sick to go to the doctor. Isn't that something?

I woke up with a throbbing headache that literally made me sick to my stomach. I get these every so often, and they usually go away by early afternoon. Unfortunately, my doctor's appointment was in the morning -- I sure didn't feel like dressing properly and driving to the clinic, 12 miles away. Or, sitting in the waiting are when all I wanted to do was lie down and sleep until I felt better.

Also, unfortunately, critters don't care how I feel, so chores still had to be done.

Snow this week revealed that I have a variety of "party animals" that enjoy hanging out in my yard and on my deck. I immediately stopped when I recognized one five-toed footprint, the distinctive track of an opossum. Yesterday afternoon, I spotted the critter (maybe the one I relocated got homesick and returned?) ambling along the north fence line. As long as it sticks to the north and I don't have to calm down my excitable geese, I will hope it moves along and I don't have to chase it.

Hope everyone is getting their last-minute Christmas stuff done! I can't believe it's less than a week away; Thanksgiving was just too darned late this year.

 

[Sequel]

is there a ratio of sourdough/flour for the recipes ?

is there a ratio of sourdough/flour for the recipes ?

Here is the recipe. Those waffles were terrific!

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/classic-sourdough-waffles-or-pancakes-recipe

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Hope you are feeling better Barb.

Hope the bottling of the brew is going again Jim.

I have some waffle batter fermenting on the kitchen counter overnight. Someone posted it in the baking thread here on BYC. I also got an easy recipe for sourdough bread that I bake every week. I rarely eat pancakes or waffles because I am diabetic but once in a while….

That sounds delicious. I rarely eat them too for the same reason.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Thought this was cute,

 

[Sequel]

You know one of the things that sent me to this thread was that a woman I used to work with gave me her mother’s pressure canner. This woman kind of went over the edge during the y2k time.
When airplanes didn’t fall from the sky on New Year’s Eve I guess she just gave up with the survival stuff.

So the canner is a Presto 21-B made in Eau Claire Wisconsin. It is very heavy and they still sell parts for it!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

You know one of the things that sent me to this thread was that a woman I used to work with gave me her mother’s pressure canner. This woman kind of went over the edge during the y2k time.
When airplanes didn’t fall from the sky on New Year’s Eve I guess she just gave up with the survival stuff.

So the canner is a Presto 21-B made in Eau Claire Wisconsin. It is very heavy and they still sell parts for it!

A lot of canning used to happen in Wisconsin. As a kid everyone had many a basement shelf full of everything imaginable. I used to can, but was always afraid to use a pressure canner due to my mother warning us kids it could blow up at any moment. That rattling canner scared the heck out of me, and was fascinating all at the same time.

 

[Sequel]

A lot of canning used to happen in Wisconsin. As a kid everyone had many a basement shelf full of everything imaginable. I used to can, but was always afraid to use a pressure canner due to my mother warning us kids it could blow up at any moment. That rattling canner scared the heck out of me, and was fascinating all at the same time.

I was kind of afraid of it to until DH (who had a steam license) looked at it and told me it had a fuse plug so it couldn’t blow up. Then I watched some you tube videos and thought geez I drove a car with gasoline in it I can do this!

Oh and I believe the only canners made in the USA are still manufactured in Wisconsin.

 

[Callender Girl]

Maybe I need a licensed professional to assure me that canners are safe! Of course, I am also half convinced every year that when I turn on the furnace for the first time, the house is going to blow up.

My dad always planted enough garden for a huge family, although it was just the folks and us two kids. He never wanted any of it to go to waste, so my mom dutifully FROZE all our garden fruits and veggies. In fact, we had two full-size freezers in the basement that were packed throughout their lifetimes and beyond.

BYW, the opossum is starting to grow on me. Having secured the goose pen so it can't eat there, I caught Four Mile (named for the distance I transported it previously) licking up frozen remains of the ducks' dinner. I was on the verge of tossing it some scratch grain. Heaven help me!