What did you do in the garden today?

[Sequel]

I had never found a recipe for crisp/crunchy ginger snaps, until I found it in the Cooks Illustrated Nov/Dec 2011 magazine. It contains both fresh and ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cayenne (pinch), and black pepper!! The usual brown sugar and molasses too. The prep and bake also contribute to the crisp crunch. They stay crisp for a couple of weeks...a bonus since the recipe makes close to 80 cookies. The kids don’t like them, they prefer the soft and large molasses spice cookies, also good, but I like the crunch of these!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have this really cool cookie book really old let me look

 

[pennyJo1960]

This old Betty Crocker book cookie book said use a gingerbread mix
let me look at others

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have a cookbook from Dakota county Wisconsin ladies 1961
Heat oven to 375 10 to 12 minutes
Ginger snaps
2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening (lard, spry or crisco)
2 eggs
1 cuo molasses
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoon soda , dissolved in small amount hot water
1 tablespoon ginger
little salt
5 cups flour to make stiff dough

Roll in small balls and on a cookie sheet and bake . These are very good and Snappy
Mrs. F. A Ruhr, Rosemount

 

[Sequel]

I have a cookbook from Dakota county Wisconsin ladies 1961
Heat oven to 375 10 to 12 minutes
Ginger snaps
2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening (lard, spry or crisco)
2 eggs
1 cuo molasses
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoon soda , dissolved in small amount hot water
1 tablespoon ginger
little salt
5 cups flour to make stiff dough

Roll in small balls and on a cookie sheet and bake . These are very good and Snappy
Mrs. F. A Ruhr, Rosemount

Thanks Penny! Yum!

 

[karenerwin]

We got sleet followed by snow. We got at least 1.5 inches. I did go out and take care of the chickens and added some leaves and twigs to stump # 2 which is still burning the underground roots! Otherwise, I put up 7 more quarts of pumpkin for the chickens. 1 quart the lid came off in the pressure canner but did not make a huge mess! I'll give them that quart tomorrow. I don't have any more quart jars left so then I filled 2 gallon bags with pumpkin slices and put those in the freezer.
I still have 14 pumpkins left!

 

[Sequel]

Thanks guys, great to hear about the compost. Mine is made of pallets also, I have 2 bins. Next summer I'd like to add 1 more bin & put doors on it. We probably have 1 more leaf collection that I will horde, lol. DH thinks I'm crazy, but then he doesn't pay for the compost I buy for the garden!

@Wee Farmer Sarah your tubers look good!! Enjoy the snow/cold, I don't think were were getting it.

@penny1960 I did that not too long ago & had bare feet! I had to go all the way down to the shop & dig thru the spiderwebs for a key, still couldn't get in the house so I opened the dog pen & begged the skinny neighbor to crawl thru the dog door. I have now hidden a key.
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Wow your bins look really nice compared to mine! I’ll try to remember to get a pic of them.

 

[Sueby]

@karenerwin that is a LOT of pumpkins! Because of you I threw my chickens my 1 little pumpkin I had. I cooked half & they ate that pretty well, threw them the uncooked half & they had no interest.

@Sequel I would love to see pics of your bins!

I LOVE ginger snaps - my favorite cookie. YUM

@Wee Farmer Sarah I meant to thank you for your service the other day but forgot. So thank you. And to anyone else who served - thank you too!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning all. Good golly, t'is the season for pumpkins and spicey cookies. I have a recipe from an old version of the "The Joy of Cooking." I have two editions but I refer to the tenth printing in 1978 as "my cooking bible." When @Acre4Me mentioned the ginger cookies it reminded me of the delicate ginger thins from this cookbook.
Preheat oven to 325F
Cream together:
3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 beaten egg
1/4 cup molasses
Sift together:
1- 1/2 cups sifter AP flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon and ginger

Combine the above ingredients and stir until smooth. Put dots of 1/8 teaspoon 1 inch apart on a greased cookie sheet (making them large will result in a tougher cookie). Bake 5 to 6 minutes. Cool on a rack.

I hope you like them. Thank you @Sueby. I had a nice day yesterday. I went to the nearby Olive Garden and they were so nice. They didn't wait for you to mention it, they asked everyone at the Hostess station if any members in their party were Veterans. The meal was great. Even though the meal was free the waiter boxed up the leftover salad and gave me a bunch of those little chocolate Andes. Of course I tipped him.
So my dahlia tubers are looking a little shriveled all ready. Is that normal @Sueby?
I bought two more shower curtains for my chicken run. I'm hoping to get them put up later this morning. It's supposed to be rainy this morning then snow showers this afternoon. Then we get a big temperature dive into the teens. Thankfully it's only for a couple of days then back to normal temps. Have a great day everyone.

 

[Sueby]

I'm glad you had a good meal, I love that places do that for our vets. I signed up today to volunteer for wreaths across america, I lost a very good friend last year who is buried in a military cemetery & it's so beautiful to see all the wreaths on the perfectly spaced white headstones. When I went to visit him last Jan & saw how awesome the cemetery looked I was amazed.

Yes, my dahlias are looking a little shriveled too, drying nicely. I will probably pack them up tonight.