Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

Morning
Rotater is turned off this morning and humidity added. Still haven't candled, I am just hoping and praying I get something or I will have unmature pullets and cockerels at county... If I get time to candle I will, but if I don't and nothing hatches by Thursday they will be thrown out. I am regretting not not setting them until now

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Yah no. She has the portable round lefse iron that you can find at fleet farm. I’ve seen the griddle top wood stoves. She rolls and fil griddles and flips with two long lefse sticks.

 

[BantyChooks]

See, Ralphie... -1F and 1' of snow in this image. Birds still came piling out of the coop.

 

[ejb3810]

Cluckies, the old Campine hen does lay infrequently during the summer. I hate to admit it, but I keep her around because I am sort of fond of her. She is not flighty but has an independent personality and can fly like a pheasant.

Ralphie, it was my thinking that Lefse was a food of the higher Scandinavian race and that Swede's were not a consumer of it ?!

 

[MNChickMom]

What does she make it on? The stuff I remember as a kd being so good was made on an old wood stove. I doubt many of you even remember the old wood cook stoves.

Wrong to doubt some of us.....In my younger years (12-13 years old) I actually had to prepare meals on a wood cook stove. My grandmother inherited her parents home, while her house was being remodeled she fell and broke her shoulder. So I had to move in for a couple of weeks. Got on and off the bus at Grandmas while a different neighbor/or one of her kids watched her during the day. The kitchen still had the old black cook stove, add wood to the left, small baking oven on the right. Turning the baked dishes in the "hot box" every couple of minutes so it wouldn't burn. And the coffee.....who has 20 minutes to build a fire then another 20 minutes to wait for the water to warm up with the coffee grounds in the bottom. My grandma still jokes to this day, "It's ok to chew your coffee".

P.S. We ate a lot of hamburgers, or sausage that could be easily cooked on the top! And both Grandma and I are still alive today.

Thank you Ralphie bringing up this memory. Today, I can look back at it and smile; at the time the smiles were few and far between.

 

[duluthralphie]

Wrong to doubt some of us.....In my younger years (12-13 years old) I actually had to prepare meals on a wood cook stove. My grandmother inherited her parents home, while her house was being remodeled she fell and broke her shoulder. So I had to move in for a couple of weeks. Got on and off the bus at Grandmas while a different neighbor/or one of her kids watched her during the day. The kitchen still had the old black cook stove, add wood to the left, small baking oven on the right. Turning the baked dishes in the "hot box" every couple of minutes so it wouldn't burn. And the coffee.....who has 20 minutes to build a fire then another 20 minutes to wait for the water to warm up with the coffee grounds in the bottom. My grandma still jokes to this day, "It's ok to chew your coffee".

P.S. We ate a lot of hamburgers, or sausage that could be easily cooked on the top! And both Grandma and I are still alive today.

Thank you Ralphie bringing up this memory. Today, I can look back at it and smile; at the time the smiles were few and far between.

Isn't that the truth...

I am amazed one as young as yourself, I remember thinking when I saw you last week you can't be over 28)..... ever had the chance to use a cook stove.

We have a flat top wood stove at the cabin. I cook on it whenever the weather is cooler and I am there...(read years ago now).. I like waiting for the coffee and just doing nothing for a while in the morning.

I myself did not grow up with a wood stove, our wood stove was outside we had a "bottle gas stove". The wood cook stove left the house when I was 5. That was in 1957......or the year before they knocked down our one room school.....

 

[Cebarmlds]

I've been thinking about buying the stuff to make fudge! Maybe this weekend. Becky I'm guessing you make delicious fudge! Mmmm.

I mailed off lefse that my MIL made to her great neice. DH's cousin. She made a little comment on a social media post and I thought I'd surprise her with a little Norwegian goodness.

It's the recipe I use and the ingredients. Chocolate is expensive. When I was a teen I would make the old fashioned recipe with cocoa but that is so touchy I don't have time to mess with it, nor do I want to :/



I love lefse but have never tried making it, and don't like the fakey kind with instant potatoes.

 

[MNChickMom]

Isn't that the truth...

I am amazed one as young as yourself, I remember thinking when I saw you last week you can't be over 28)..... ever had the chance to use a cook stove.

We have a flat top wood stove at the cabin. I cook on it whenever the weather is cooler and I am there...(read years ago now).. I like waiting for the coffee and just doing nothing for a while in the morning.

I myself did not grow up with a wood stove, our wood stove was outside we had a "bottle gas stove". The wood cook stove left the house when I was 5. That was in 1957......or the year before they knocked down our one room school.....

Thank you for the compliment but add 10 years. Grandma's cook stove left in 1992....about 6 to 8 weeks after Great Grandpa passed away; she had her design plans drawn up and ready to execute the remodel shortly after Great Grandpa passed.

Many of these old traditions are ones to treasure....somehow my husband endured rope making as a part of the "welcome to the family ritual". Every year at Christmas the uncles and "newly courting" boyfriends of the female cousins would go into Grandma's garage and make rope/drink beer. Some of the "city slicker" boyfriends didn't fare so well and disappeared rather quickly, while others will be celebrating 20 years of marriage.

 

[BantyChooks]

Thank you for the compliment but add 10 years. Grandma's cook stove left in 1992....about 6 to 8 weeks after Great Grandpa passed away; she had her design plans drawn up and ready to execute the remodel shortly after Great Grandpa passed.

Many of these old traditions are ones to treasure....somehow my husband endured rope making as a part of the "welcome to the family ritual". Every year at Christmas the uncles and "newly courting" boyfriends of the female cousins would go into Grandma's garage and make rope/drink beer. Some of the "city slicker" boyfriends didn't fare so well and disappeared rather quickly, while others will be celebrating 20 years of marriage.

Rope making is fun.

 

[duluthralphie]

Speaking of rope making, My Campaign manager lost his Dad last year. His mother and Sister "liquidated" Dad's tools and cool stuff.

They had one of those hand crank rope making machines you put in twine and get a rope out the other end....... They go for about $250 if you can find one.....The put it on a garage sale for $20..someone offered them 10 and they took it.... Said campaign manager is not happy about this. He wanted it.

He did manage to save the 160# anvil they had listed at $30.... Why can I never find these garage sales?