Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[ladyrsanti]

I'd love the recipe too!


I don't think you're mean for not covering your horses, they cannot regulate their own body heat properly with the blanket.

It's in Rose Levy's Bread Bible. I'd copy it but it's something like three pages long and reads like a novel. Here's a link to someone who already did copy it to the net.

http://www.girlversusdough.com/2010/01/04/round-twelve-levys-bagels/

They said they used malted milk powder which is not the same as malt powder. I'd look at a health food store for it (or online, King Arthur Flour sells it by the pound) and then, as a last resort use the malted milk. But if that's too much trouble, they'll work without it - just adds flavor. I also found that I was better off shortening the baking time some. The first attempts came out too hard on the outside. Now they are perfectly chewy. As fussy as the recipe is, I've never had bagels this yummy.

 

[tdhenson86]

Just pulled these out of the oven. Homemade bagels, Levy's recipe. It took me four tries to get the recipe the way I wanted it, which is no small feat considering it takes two days to make them. But finally figured out the malt powder, the oven temp and time vs. the recipe's recommendations. They're better than bakery bagels, hands down.

Those look SOOOO GOOD!!!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Whoops! just re-read my last post

6 WEEKS old, not months! That's why i had to have the light in the brooder........... but i'm not liking it. It sounds good in theory, but the reality is added moisture and the healthy fear of a coop fire. I am looking forward to when they don't need it, everyone said 8 weeks, but these ones aren't growing as fast as my spring babies? I wish i hadn't had to do such a late hatch, but i wanted cocoa's last baby.

She is doing well, she has her mother's personality, even more than her sister!

 

[NovaAman]

Scifisarah, we still on for the morning pick up? AND how much did you want for shim?

 

[Stacykins]

Stacykins - how different does goat milk taste from cow's?

Hmm, how to describe it. Delicious? Hah, sorry, not the best descriptor. Rich, because goats milk is naturally homogenized. A little cream may rise, but not much at all even after a few days. The milk I drink is raw. Good taste is very strongly determined by how the milk is handled. Whether a sanitized bucket is used, the teats are cleaned beforehand, the milk is strained then rapidly cooled, and storage in a sanitized glass container versus plastic. Hands down, I like it much better than cows milk.

I personally have a bit of lactose intolerance, but raw goat milk causes me no problems. It still has a lot of the enzymes and whatnot that are destroyed when milk is heated, it is easier to digest. Sure, it still has lactose, but I can drink a big glass and be fine. If I do that with store bought cows milk (or eat something with too much cows milk without taking a lactase tab), I will not be a happy camper.

If you want to know what goats milk tastes like, I would strongly suggest against buying the crap in the store. That stuff "Meyenburg" I think is what it is called, it tastes nasty. It tastes like the musky stank of a goat buck, if that makes sense. I guess you'd have to get a whiff of a buck to make that connection, hah. I am told that if bucks are not kept separate from milking does, then their musk can taint the milk. It is hard to scrub buck stank off your hands, so it would get in the milk if it is on a doe.

Some folks like the taste of cow milk over goat milk, or they just prefer working with cows more than goats. It could also be a matter of having allergies to goats and/or goat milk.

Very good points! Though cow milk allergies are much more common, given that is what is almost exclusively drank in the U.S. People who consume goat or sheep milk are a minority.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Lady those bagles look delish!!!!

Any offers?

I got lots and lots of roos that you can have

Hmm, how to describe it. Delicious? Hah, sorry, not the best descriptor. Rich, because goats milk is naturally homogenized. A little cream may rise, but not much at all even after a few days. The milk I drink is raw. Good taste is very strongly determined by how the milk is handled. Whether a sanitized bucket is used, the teats are cleaned beforehand, the milk is strained then rapidly cooled, and storage in a sanitized glass container versus plastic. Hands down, I like it much better than cows milk.


If you want to know what goats milk tastes like, I would strongly suggest against buying the crap in the store. That stuff "Meyenburg" I think is what it is called, it tastes nasty. It tastes like the musky stank of a goat buck, if that makes sense. I guess you'd have to get a whiff of a buck to make that connection, hah. I am told that if bucks are not kept separate from milking does, then their musk can taint the milk. It is hard to scrub buck stank off your hands, so it would get in the milk if it is on a doe.

Good to know!
AND

 

[RaZ]

Hands down, I like it much better than cows milk.

I would strongly suggest against buying the crap in the store. That stuff "Meyenburg" I think is what it is called, it tastes nasty.

I agree 100%. If you can find "Swiss Goat" brand, try that. It has a very nice flavour, IMO. I buy it when I can but it is pricey.

I got lots and lots of roos that you can have

I still have a roo. He is very close to the hens in the garage coop...in his own little spot...in the freezer.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

I still have a roo. He is very close to the hens in the garage coop...in his own little spot...in the freezer.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

I am going to ask again because we have some new members...
Would anyone like a SHOWGIRL ROOSTER?
I have a black one and
I have a white one...

 

[tdhenson86]

I am going to ask again because we have some new members...
Would anyone like a SHOWGIRL ROOSTER?
I have a black one and
I have a white one...

I have made a pledge and sworn an oath that I would never get a showgirl, but that black one is so ugly that it is cute!!! Where are you in Michigan? I must not get him. I must not get him. I must not get him... lol...