Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Cindlady]

Hi ALLl!

FT... sorry about your bird

Not much more went trough the head

Grrr no sales on the feather book marks today. He said some people thought they looked too fradgial.

I have used a feather for a book mark that lasted over 15 years!

Oh well, tired.... night!

 

[momgille]

Hi guys- quick pop in for a question.
I went by my sister this morning to make sauerkraut and she sent me home with a plastic grocery bag filled with sour cherries from Door County. Besides making a pie or jelly, does anyone have any recipes for preserving them some way? I saw one for a chutney that I thought looked good, but wanted to see if anyone on here preserved cherries?

I used my dehydrator on the cherries and then tossed them in home made granola it was delish... but the reduction of volume is amazing filled the dehydrator up and got maybe a little over 2 cups of cherries. Other issue is they didn't last because they were eaten by the handfuls before I could make more granola. Also used a 5 quart pail of cherries to make 3 gallons of wine...It is still brewing and wont know how it turns out for another 3 months.

 

[delisha]

Quote: That light colored one is a lavender and it came from a marked Hershey egg. I can see lavender on the head. It will probably be a lavender splash looking chick. The egg that was not marked was no good and had a blood ring early in incubation.
The Black chick is from my Blue and Black Orp. It is going to be a pullet..I can feel it. I can't hatch black pullets or splash pullets for some reason. That black sure looks like a pullet to me.
All the eggs that hatched from Terri O have dots on the head and are small compared to Orpington chicks. My early hatched egg that I thought was going to be possibly a 6 toed is an EE. Those cheeks of his are so puffy and cute. I hope it is a pullet, it is so friendly and happy to hop into my hand at feeding time.

Quote: Hello Mom gille..nice picture and welcome to the group!
You might be on here and changed your profile picture and I did not notice, or you are new!!

 

[irishrovr]

I used my dehydrator on the cherries and then tossed them in home made granola it was delish... but the reduction of volume is amazing filled the dehydrator up and got maybe a little over 2 cups of cherries. Other issue is they didn't last because they were eaten by the handfuls before I could make more granola. Also used a 5 quart pail of cherries to make 3 gallons of wine...It is still brewing and wont know how it turns out for another 3 months.

Welcome, momgille! I have been thinking about getting a dehydrator for some time now. What kind do you have?

 

[Twizzlebee]

Well, today I faceplanted on my concrete garage floor, trying to show my sister how to use our ab roller. Got a good chuckle and bloody chin out of that one.

We also got 3 new geese yesterday, their pilgrim mixes I believe.



Oh and after we got this guy a couple weeks ago, I decided that I am addicted to cochins and must have more xD I'm determined to get just a few...hundred...

 

[FrenchToast]

http://northernwi.craigslist.org/zip/3979458581.html Free ice house/chicken coop !!! ET doesn't need any more projects and have no way of getting it but someone might !!!

 

[vickiw]

Morning everyone!!!
FT-no, I do NOT need some duckies, still working around hubby for the new "retirement/rescue" coop. BTW- we had similar luck yesterday. We went to Jennings for their Stovewood House celebration and pig roast (not much on pork myself but hubby loves it) and waited in line for close to half an hour only to be told when we got near the front they sold out! Not going to lay $2 FOR a hotdog when we were 3 miles from home so we headed back and hubby picked up a bucket of yummy broasted from Hill' s Still.

TWIZZLEBEE- OUCH!

CC-quit bragging about being able to grow peaches

IRISHROVR - best dehydrator on the market is the Excalibur. Very pricy but worth every penny. I have 2. One really old and one almost brand new. Wouldn't trade them for anything. Tried the round ones, even the more costly ones and wound up giving them away. Best thing about mine is they are not just for food drying. I can use mine for craft projects, proofing dough, all kinds of things you can't do with the "Wal-Mart" ones. IMHO

FOR THE ENQUIRING MINDS WHO ASKED ABOUT MY COOKBOOKS - I have two books you might be interested in.
My cookbook is called "the wise encyclopedia of cookery - an encyclopedic handbook for the homemaker covering foods and beverages - their purchase, preparation and service" copyright 1949. It's only 6 by 9" but close to 1300 pages. I have other old cookbooks but this a definite all-in-one reference. Especially handy for finding out what the neck some of the old cooking terms and measurements mean.
My other book is called (deep breath here) "Mackenzie' s ten thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts constituting a complete and practical library relating to agriculture, horticulture, cements, bleaching and dyeing, brewery, cookery, carving, bees, chemical receipts, ------" (it goes on to list over 50 more topics and still ends with an "etc." . ) "being an entirely new edition carefully revised and 're-written and containing the improvements and discoveries up to the date of publication, October, 1865" it's difficult to accurately describe what all this book encompasses, so let me just say that if it required a formula or a receipt (recipe) in the 1800's, it is in here. Chapter titles include agriculture, horticulture, farriery, medicine, culinary arts, distillation (essential oils, waters, etc.), paints, varnishes, glass,pottery, perfumery, tanning, just to mention some. All of these of course have numerous subsections. This was THE reference book of its day and every rural home that could afford it had one. I think Jim would especially enjoy the brewing and distillation" section. Some of the "plain cookery" is a hoot! Such things as gravy cakes and sailors sauce but others are the forgotten cooking of our great grandmothers. Overall this book contains just about everything we have forgotten how to make for ourselves, minus all the modern additives, etc

Now I need more coffee!

 

[Terri O]

That last book sounds great Vicky! I have one that is on a newsprint type paper and it is "Forgotten Arts" or something like that. I will have to look and see the actual name. In the back it has a checklist for stuff that you need to accomplish before you can be considered "self sufficient." Kind of like a bucket list. I have completed most of them!

Welcome MomG! Where near Madison are you? I am in Lake Mills.

Moved a ton of birds again today. New quail moved outside and guineas into their big inside pen. Now there are only 4 llittle chicks under that lamp in the brooder. Soon they will move out too...they were from one of my wild hens and she just couldnt keep track of all the babies. I hate hearing them PEEPING looking for their Moms! Such an insistent noise...

Gotta head to work and then to look at some hay...I hope he is cheap!
TerrIO

 

[JustJohn]

Morning everyone!!!
FT-no, I do NOT need some duckies, still working around hubby for the new "retirement/rescue" coop. BTW- we had similar luck yesterday. We went to Jennings for their Stovewood House celebration and pig roast (not much on pork myself but hubby loves it) and waited in line for close to half an hour only to be told when we got near the front they sold out! Not going to lay $2 FOR a hotdog when we were 3 miles from home so we headed back and hubby picked up a bucket of yummy breasted from Hill' s Still.

TWIZZLEBEE- OUCH!

CC-quit bragging about being able to grow peaches

IRISHROVR - best dehydrator on the market is the Excalibur. Very pricy but worth every penny. I have 2. One really old and one almost brand new. Wouldn't trade them for anything. Tried the round ones, even the more costly ones and wound up giving them away. Best thing about mine is they are not just for food drying. I can use mine for craft projects, proofing dough, all kinds of things you can't do with the "Wal-Mart" ones. IMHO

FOR THE ENQUIRING MINDS WHO ASKED ABOUT MY COOKBOOKS - I have two books you might be interested in.
My cookbook is called "the wise encyclopedia of cookery - an encyclopedic handbook for the homemaker covering foods and beverages - their purchase, preparation and service" copyright 1949. It's only 6 by 9" but close to 1300 pages. I have other old cookbooks but this a definite all-in-one reference. Especially handy for finding out what the neck some of the old cooking terms and measurements mean.
My other book is called (deep breath here) "Mackenzie' s ten thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts constituting a complete and practical library relating to agriculture, horticulture, cements, bleaching and dyeing, brewery, cookery, carving, bees, chemical receipts, " (it goes on to list over 50 more topics and still ends with an "etc." . ) "being an entirely new edition carefully revised and 're-written and containing the improvements and discoveries up to the date of publication, October, 1865" it's difficult to accurately describe what all this book encompasses, so let me just say that if it required a formula or a receipt (recipe) in the 1800's, it is in here. Chapter titles include agriculture, horticulture, farriery, medicine, culinary arts, distillation (essential oils, waters, etc.), paints, varnishes, glass,pottery, perfumery, tanning, just to mention some. All of these of course have numerous subsections. This was THE reference book of its day and every rural home that could afford it had one. I think Jim would especially enjoy the brewing and distillation" section. Some of the "plain cookery" is a hoot! Such things as gravy cakes and sailors sauce but others are the forgotten cooking of our great grandmothers. Overall this book contains just about everything we have forgotten how to make for ourselves, minus all the modern additives, etc

Now I need more coffee!

what are isbn #s for those?

We like our searchlight cookbook from the 30s that my grandmother passed along, with notations she made about tweeking recipes in the margins.

 

[vickiw]

what are isbn #s for those?

We like our searchlight cookbook from the 30s that my grandmother passed along, with notations she made about tweeking recipes in the margins.

Sorry JJ. These are originals. Cookbook is the 1949 edition and my copy of the Mackenzie' s 10,000 Receipts is the 1865 edition (mine is beginning to get pretty fragile) so they were were printed long before any ISBN' s. I would suggest a Google search. Maybe somebody digitized them.

FOUND IT- archive.org has the Mackenzie as a full text stream.