Posted on 10/14/2019 10:45:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Being isolated means that I’m more aware of my surroundings on those few occasions when I do get out and about. This town is calmness personified. You should visit!! MUCH better, nicer, more scenic than Henderson! On the doorstep to Zion National Park and within a day’s drive of several other parks. :o]
There IS a surge in bread-baking, because yeast and flour are rare commodities, here. Which is odd, considering this must be the State With The Most Automatic Bread-Makers per capita.
Which is why I’m having such a hard time finding flour.
Making bread that isn’t terrible isn’t something that happens easily!
I still have the recipe for bread that I got in high school, using powdered milk, but I need a larger mixer for it because arthritis in my shoulders, elbows and wrists prevents me from kneading it the required length of time. The mixer would need dough hooks, and I would love to have one. Not gonna happen, I’m afraid. So even cinnamon rolls have to be bought.
We have a heavy-duty mixer with dough hooks ... used most recently by Tom the Son, iirc. We have a grain grinder, too.
Lots of folks around here have the “wheat mills” but I could never afford them, even when Igor was bringing in good money. According to him, (who grew up in Utah) it “wasn’t necessary.” The turns our lives took for 15 years proved that buckets of wheat would have been very hard to move and store.
However, I did have a very nice Oster that came with the dough hooks, the blender, and even an ice cream maker and I loved it. And used it. But when hard times came, it had to be sold. I’ve never been able to afford another with a motor powerful enough for the bread-making jobs. So I have a small hand mixer.
And there are some things I really want but can’t get. So I just dream and remember the aroma of bread dough when I lifted to towel to check the progress. And then the baking, filling the neighborhood with good smells!
Maybe you could Google up some no-knead recipes, more biscuitlike. I used to make communion bread, back in Norman, OK, and it was yeast-free but nicely bready.
Yesterday, I gave away the rocking chair that was in my bedroom, because we never rocked - only Frank, destructively - but now we need another chair because I need to sit down to put my socks on, at least most days ;-). I’m thinking of moving the Best Cat Chair - the one I found in the back hall of the church with a “Free!” sign on it - but Jake is napping on it, right here next to me, and won’t move.
Jake was really upset by the window installers. He was still acting edgy this morning, and his coat is gunky. Hopefully he’ll be back to normal in a day or so.
I have quite a few recipes for no-knead breads, and I like them, but I also like the yeast smell. That’s why I’ve chosen to make sourdough. It’s close!
Poor Jake! He’s getting to be an old man, now so things that wouldn’t have upset him a few years ago are probably traumatizing for him, now.
Thank you.
Morning Covenantor
LoL ,looks like a planning meeting to me.
A ring a ring a roses....
With a dead mackerel on the side...
;o]
:ducking and running:
LOL!
Good morning!
How fares it on the sceptered isle?
The other day after watching a British video about them Battle of Britain I was musing about dropping a R-R Merlin into a Bedford truck of suitable size... a sort of rolling Q ship...just a thought mind you...still
Morning ‘Face.
Just watched a very civilised press conference with the PM and senior Ministers.
Food production has been ramped up by 50%.
Truck driving hours have been relaxed.
Any rationing that is needed will be the responsibility of the retailers themselves, gov is keeping its hand out.
Nothing mandatory yet, just very strongly delivered “advice”.
Apparently £1Bn of extra food was stashed in the last two weeks, the same as an extra Christmas.
Crikey, Moosie! All I know about this is what I read on FR. However, I did run across a FB post this morning by someone who had two maps of the US of A compared. One was of the areas where COVID-19 was rampant, and another for the sanctuary cities.
Guess what? Yep — sanctuary cities had the largest number of COVID-19 cases. Go look...I shared it!
:D
The R-R Merlin in a land vehicle has been done on a number of occasions.
The best results are with the low powered 950hp model if in a car.
A R-R Griffin has been put in a truck (18 wheel tractor unit)...If the Good LORD was going to do a burn-out that is how HE would do it.
Some German Pilot put the ME109 Inv V engine in a Car, Twas most impressive in a straight line. Cornering proved problematic.
Other than that our parliament appears to be taking advice from DJT about how to manage the current inconvenience.
Nothing but on box from where I sit...sorry.
Try again?
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