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[Teach97]

no hotel here...they bulldozed it to make a truck parking lot...

Might holler at some friends but several of them are w/o water as well...

 

[Sooner]

Wayne are you ready for that kind of weather? Figure you are since you just had snow the other day.

Teach I wonder if I could get away with calling in SMELLY??

 

[Sooner]

Ok you bread bakers, why did the top separate like that? Is there anything I can do to stop that so it looks better or is there something I am doing wrong?? This recipe only takes 2 hours start to finish.

 

[Poco Pollo]

No school for our district tomorrow. I don't know if DH will try to go in to work. Even with 4WD it will be challenging.

Maribeth - I thought freezing would kill yeast. I'm going to try freezing mine the next time I buy a large quantity. Before our girls moved out we baked about twice a month. Now it's about twice a year.

Joe - DH looked at the weather projections for next Saturday up in Inola. He said it will be too cold to attend an auction, so I'm not going to make it to Chupps

I'm starting to rethink my Delaware raising plans as well. The more I read about New Hampshire Reds, the more I think I should sell my Delawares and have NH Reds in their place. If I'm going on looks, the Delawares win. But since my plan focuses on rapid feathering and maturity, the NH Reds win. In a perfect chicken world I'd have both. If anybody knows how to get there (to the perfect chicken world, I mean), please post directions.

 

[poultryand bees]

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My GP Bear is loving this stuff. All my other critters are hunkered down but The Bear was out in that bitter cold wind this morning just frolicking and romping about. He thought those Guineas up in that tree were just the funniest things. He just loves it.

Me, not so much. I had to come in to work today in order to staff the place because everyone else called in. Management said we had to be open all the way till 9 tonight. No way am I driving those country roads on a night like this so I brought my pillows and a couple of cushions from the couch and will lock myself in after we close.

That I don't mind so much. Just the idea of sleeping in the middle of 100,000+ books gives me a thrill. It is my wife who is ticked off at me for coming in in the first place.

So, just as well I brought couch cushions. I probably would have been sleeping on them tonight, anyway.

Did you have any patrons at the library today?
I can understand your wife's frustration - the roads are dangerous

 

[al6517]

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Get a close up for me and perhaps I can help.

AL

 

[al6517]

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Get a close up for me and perhaps I can help.

AL

Carah : If when your dough is ready for the second rise ( proof ) and it's already formed and in the pan, if it's not covered and doesn't stay moist like with say ( saran wrap or moist towel ), it will seperate when the intial oven heat gives it that intial spring back, that would cause the top to pop like that.

AL

 

[poultryand bees]

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For future reference, if you keep your yeast in the freezer, it will stay good for several years. When I used to make bread often, I would buy yeast at Sams - two 1 lb bags to the package - share one with someone else and keep one in the freezer for myself. Just bring it to room temperature when you use it.

I have been playing around using starters and sponges for my breads lately, it still is a work in progress, I like the flavor of aged starters and ( Biga's ) as we say in Italian.

AL

I used to have a great starter for potato bread and would make 12 loaves at a time and take them to the office. It has been many years since I did that and some folks still ask when I am going to bring it in again.

It was a starter that you fed with instant mashed potato flakes and sugar. I wish I could get a start of it again.

 

[Sooner]

Try this:

 

[averytds]

Fresh Baked Bread!

I get the same 1 lb yeast packs from SAMs. I bake in fits and spurts. I've yet to have any go bad.



Joe - It was a Buff. Figures he would go just when I had some of his better offspring ready to breed back.

Darkling