Rain, Garden and Old Recipes

We did manage to get 3/4's of the garden planted last Saturday late afternoon and evening. We are hoping to get the rest in this coming weekend.

We have gotten quite a bit of rain the last 3 days. We really needed it. We are getting into the dry season for our area so this has been very welcome.

We were given 3 chickens; 2 are roosters. The family was doing 4-H and live in town the roosters were not welcome by neighbors lol. The little hen has a crooked beak but seems to be doing well.

Recipes:                       

From the book; Colonial Cookbook

Oyster Stew

¼ cup butter

1 quart (4 Cups) oysters, drained

2 cups warmed milk

2 cups light warmed cream

Salt and pepper to taste

1 teaspoon paprika

Melt butter and sauté oysters in it until edges curl. Add remaining ingredients and heat to almost boiling. Can serve with small crackers. Serves 4.

Oxtail Soup

(cow tail)

Wash 2 pounds of oxtail cut into short sections. In large pot brown oxtails in fat (butter or olive oil works). Cover with water. Add a bay leaf and simmer until meat falls off the bones. Strain broth to take out bones. Add meat back in. Add 4 cups diced vegetables (carrots, potatoes, onions etc.) Cook slowly until vegetables are tender. Season to taste. Serves 4.

Pumpkin Soup

1 tablespoon butter

1 small onion, chopped fine

1 pound fresh pumpkin, steamed drained and pureed

2 cups chicken broth

½ teaspoon thyme

1 bay leaf

1 cup cream

Chopped parsley or chives

Melt butter in soup kettle. Saute onion until golden. Stir in pumpkin, broth, thyme, and bay leaf. Cook over low heat 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and cool. Stir in cream and heat thoroughly. Remove bay leaf. Garnish with the chopped parsley or chives. Serves 4 to 6.

Soda Crackers

4 cups flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

¾ cup sour milk (3/4 cup less 1 tablespoon milk, then add 1 tablespoon vinegar and let sit 5 minutes.

1 cup butter

Sift or stir dry ingredients together well. Cut in milk and butter, mixing well into stiff dough. Roll and turn over repeatedly until the dough is very stiff. Roll very thin, cut into squares, prick with fork and bake 400 degrees until edges are lightly browned. Makes 50 to 60 crackers.

New Grand Girl & 2 Recipes

We have another new baby girl grand baby as of last week Aspen is her name. 7.10 lbs.

Then I try to count up and see how many grands this is lol. It's either 20 or 21 and 1 great grand.  EE GADS where did the time go?

The garden is all tilled and waiting.  We should be able to plant this Sat. we were hoping for last Sat.; but so much was going on that we didn't get to.  

A whole week of no freezing at night; great.

I have to bake 2 cakes today for a get together tomorrow night, so I best get to it. Better to get it done today in case I have to babysit Kaylee tomorrow.

Here is Kay making last weekend, as she said; snow angels lol. Rocks and dirt.

 

Recipes from the book: A 17^th Century Kitchen

Onion Soup

3 large onions

3 celery sticks

2 carrots

4 tablespoons butter

Salt, pepper, nutmeg

3 cups chicken broth

3 cups milk

2 tablespoons four

Chop onion, celery an carrots. Melt butte in a large pan. Add vegetables and cook until onions are soft, but not brown.  Take vegetables from the pan and puree as best you can. In same pan you cooked vegetables in melt the butter. Ad d flour to make a roux. Slowly add chicken broth to flour mix.  Stir until the roux is well blended. Add milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg and vegetable puree. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Pork and Apple Pie

1 &1/2 pounds ground or sliced pork

5 medium apples

½ cup brown sugar

1 cup chicken broth

2 pie crusts unbaked

2 medium onions

½ teaspoon allspice

2 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground cloves

2 tablespoons butter

Finely chop onions. In a large frying pan melt butter, add onions and cook until soft but not brown.  Add pork, salt, pepper to onions in the frying pan.  Add chicken broth simmer until meat is cooked.  Pare core and slice apples.  Combine apples with brown sugar, cinnamon and cloves.  Roll our pastry dough.

Line the bottom of a 9 inch pie pan with the pastry.  Place a layer of pork with apples on top, continue to layer. Bake in 400 degree oven for 30 minutes until crust is browned. Makes enough for 2 pies.

Sun Shine & Knox Recipes

We have been having a very nice week. It is very strange that after 3 days of now rain that the ground could get soooo hard.


This Friday Dave will be tilling the garden area then we will plant root crops in the afternoon and on Saturday.


We get Kaylee tonight and will have her until Friday night, that will keep things hopping even more.

Recipes:

These are form the Knox Gelatine 1942 pamphlet.  


Ham Mousse
1 envelope knox gelatine
1/4 cup cold water
1/2 cup hot water
2 cups chopped cold boiled ham
1/2 cup cream or evaporated milk, whipped
1 teaspoon mustard
1/4 teaspoon paprika

Soften gelatine in cold water. Add hot water and stir until dissolved. Cool and add to chopped ham, add mustard and paprika and whipped cream. Add a dash of alt if you wish. Turn into mold that has been rinsed in cold water and chill. When firm and unmold. Serves 6


Salmon or Tuna Mold
1 envelope knox gelatine
1/4 cup cold water
Put gelatine in the 1/4 c. cold water to soften
yolks of 2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1&1/2 tablespoons melted butter
3/4 cup milk
2&1/2 tablespoons mild vinegar or lemon juice
2 cups canned salmon, tuna or crab meat
1 teaspoon mustard
1/4 teaspoon paprika

Mix eggs yolk slightly beat with salt, mustard, and paprika. Add butter, milk and vinegar. Cook over boiling water stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Add softened gelatine (in 1/4 c. cold water) to hot mixture and stir until dissolved. Add fish that has been separated in flakes. Turn into mold that has been rinsed with cold water, chill and when firm unmold. Serves 6

Lemon Chiffon Pie
 1 envelope knox gelatine
1/4 cup cold water
Put gelatine in the 1/4 c. cold water to soften
3 eggs - separate yolks and whites
1 cup light corn syrup or 2/3 cup sugar
 1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 cold graham cracker crumb crust (below) or baked pie shell

Whip egg whites with 1/4 cup of the corn syrup or almost 1/4 cup sugar. Beat egg yolks and 3/4 cup of corn syrup or 1/2 cup of sugar, lemon juice and salt. Cook in double boiler until custard consistency, stirring constantly. Add softened gelatine and stir until dissolved. Add grated lemon rind. Cool, and when mixture begins to thicken, fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into baked pie shell or crumb crust.


Cold Graham Cracker Crust
1&1/2 cups crushed graham crackers
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter
Mix crushed crackers butter and sugar. Pat mixture firmly into pie pan. Place pie pan in refrigerator or cold place. Allow to get cold for a couple of hours. Then fill with pie filling.

5 Gen. Picture, Recipes

Well here is another April under our belts :).


That didn't seem to take long now did it?


Rained like a son of gun this morning but we have a bit of sun peeking out now and then. 


Dave sprayed the weeds on Saturday I sure hope that gave them enough time to get to dying lol.


Our first great grand baby was born last week on the 26th of April, Jaydah.


We did manage to get a 5 gen. Picture. 


Baby 2 days old, grandma 39 yrs, great grandma 58 yrs, great great grandma 82 yrs.

Here are this weeks recipes.

1958 recipes

Here’s one called:

Apple Nut Pudding

1 well beaten egg

Add: ¾ cup sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved.

Sift together

½ cup flour

½ teasp salt

1 teasp.

Add to egg & sugar, then add:

½ cup chopped nuts

1 cup finely chopped apples

1 teasp almond extract

Mix well. Bake in 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes in a greased and floured pan 8x8.  When done cut in squares and serve with whipped cream. By Leota D Baird

Quick Oatmeal Fudge

In pot add together:

2 cups sugar

½ cup milk

3 tablesp cocoa

¼ cup margarine

Boil together then remove form heat, add:

3 tablesp quick cooking oatmeal 

1 teasp vanilla

½ cup chopped nuts or coconut

Stir until almost cold. Drop by spoonfuls on a cookie sheet, chill. (Unsighed)

Pineapple Ginger Punch

½ cup sugar

2 cups water

1 cup pineapple juice

1 cup grapefruit juice

¼ cup lemon juice

4 cups ginger ale

Boil sugar and water together for 5 minutes: cool. Add fruit juices and chill thoroughly. Just before serving add the ginger ale. Any sweet juice can be substituted for the pineapple juice. One-half cup lemon juice may be substituted got grapefruit juice. 40 servings. By Roxie Parkin

Grand kids Chores and Old Recipes

We had sort of a busy weekend, two for the grand children were here so that made things a bit busier with their help lol. They loved helping with hauling away branches but Kaylee used them to play n the creek.

Then they went to see what the calf was up to and she wanted to play.

Tire rotation time.

Recipes from a 1958 Relief Society Cook book Lewiston and Clarkston.

French Dressing

3 tablesp grated onion or 1 clove garlic

1 teaspoon salt

1 teasp paprika

½ cup oil or salad oil

1/3 cup catsup

¼ cup vinegar

Juice of ½ lemon

Place in covered jar and shake well. Remove garlic glove after an hour) Pour over favorite tossed salad.

By Zola Stellmon

Molded Cheese Salad

2 packages jello

4 cups boiling water

1 cup cream

1 cup nuts

2 cups crushed pineapple

1 cup grated cheese

Mix water and jello and chill until slightly set. Whip jello, add cream, nuts, pineapple and cheese and put in a mold chill.

By Delores Jensen

Salmon Salad

1 can salmon

½ doz. Cracked rolled and crushed

6 boiled eggs

1 tablesp finely chopped sweet pickles (Now sweet pickle relish)

1 onion chopped fine

1 Tablesp table mustard

Chop whites of eggs. Mash eggs yolks then add with mustard, add other ingredients, you can add a touch of vinegar if you wish.

By pearl Willis

Lemon Curd Sandwich Spread

6 eggs

6 lemons

Grated rind of 3 lemons

1 pound butter       

2 pounds sugar (2 cups)

On stove melt butter and sugar together, add grated rind and juice from the lemons. Add beaten eggs, slowly stir until thickens.

By Leota D Baird

Recipes and Etc.

 I have a new page above on the Indian Fire cooking hole. I may move it to its own Blog sometime so I can add more camping and cooking ideas.

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Here we are in another week. April seems to be slipping by quite quickly.

Rain is on the way in here for today and most of the week according to the weather people. It will be in the 40's today.

Dave got some of the gravel back up onto the driveway and got it drug on Saturday afternoon. He made himself a drag box and stuck a huge piece of tree in it for weight. He had spent the morning in town opening the Church building for adult co-ed volleyball and then taking everything down and putting it away to do a few errands in town afterwards.

I believe next weekend he is going to break out the chain saw and cut up that huge tree limb from a Mountain Maple that took out a section of our garden fence.No other way to get it out from across it.

I found the calf wandering around the farm truck last week. It was still early morning and I was still in my bath robe. I look out the living room window and there she is on the wrong side of the fence.

I had to bribe her back to where she belongs with a bucket of grain. We am still trying to figure out where she jumped out of her pasture. I thought OH NO we sure don't need this to start.

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Here are a couple more recipes from our area in 1958.

Mexican Wedding Cake (More like cookies)

2 cups sifted flour

1/8 teasp salt

3/4 cup butter or margarine

4 Tablesp powdered sugar

2 teasp vanilla

1 teasp cold water

1 cup finely chopped nuts

Sift flour, measure and sift again with salt. Crea, butter until fluffy the add the 4 Tablesp of sugar, vanilla and water. Mix thoroughly. Stir in flour and nuts. Shape in rolls 1 & 1/2 inches in diameter.

Wrap in waxed paper and chill. Slice in 1/4 inch slices and bake in 400 degree oven for 6 minutes or until slightly brown. Roll in powdered sugar while hot. By Eudella Williams

Applesauce Cake

2 cup flour

1 cup sugar

2 level teasp baking soda

1 heaping teasp cinnamon

1/2 teasp nutmeg

1/2 teasp ground cloves

1 level Tablesp cornstarch

3 level Tablesp cocoa

1&1/2 cup applesauce

1&1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup nuts

Cream shortening and sugar, add rest of ingredients. Mix well place in oblong greased pan. Bake in slow oven 325 degrees about 2 hours. Check as you need. By Leona Larson

Old Recipes & weather


We have run the gambit I tell you.  Last week after the 36 plus inches melted off we had 2 really nice days before we were hit again with snow.  


If I can get a few days of dry weather I am going to dig a 2 hole Indian fire and take pictures as we go along and then using it to post here with instructions.


This last Friday we had several inches of new snow and Dave was sledding with Kaylee in the back yard.

The snow has pretty much melted off the last 3 days and it is in the 50's today but we have rain storms headed in tonight and for the new few days. 


The new snow man fell over yesterday afternoon and there is only like 18 inches of him left.


I got to hang the clothes up yesterday to dry, that was so nice. Dave helped take the loads off the line before it got dark.


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Recipes


Here are some recipes from an 1958 local cookbook from the ladies in the area.


Rice Muffins
1 cup cold cooked rice
2 eggs, well beaten
3 Tablesp baking powder
4 tablesp melted shortening or butter
2 tablesp sugar
1 & 1/2 cup flour
1 cup milk
Sift flour, measure and sift with baking powder and salt. Combine rice, milk, eggs, shortening and sugar. Add dry ingredients and beat until smooth. Fill well greased muffin tins to 2/3 full. Bake in hot oven (425 deg) about 30 min. By Roxie Parkin


No Knead Rolls
1/2 cup vege. oil
3 eggs beaten
1/3 cup sugar
4 & 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons yeast
1 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon salt
 In large bowl but yeast in warm water and let sit 5 minutes. Stir in other ingredients let rise 1 hour. Shape and put in pans or cookie sheets. Bake at 400 degrees 15 minutes. By Pauline Jacobs


Gingerbread
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 & 1/2 cup sifted flour
1 & 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teasp ginger
1/2 teasp ground cloves
1/2 teasp salt
1 cup molasses
1 cup hit water
Cream the shortening and sugar. Add egg and beat until fluffy. Sift all dry ingredients add to liquid and stir until smooth. Bake in a square pan at 350 deg. 30 to 40 minutes. By Virginia Hollingsworth

I will try to remember to add a few of these each week and other recipes and hints from the 17th century on up.