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Skriven 2015-03-25 10:32:06 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Stephen Haffly
Ärende: Re: Compost was:changes
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-=> Stephen Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 SH> On (23 Mar 15) Dave Drum wrote to Ruth Haffly...

 DD> I have a composter that looks very much like this one:
 DD> http://tinyurl.com/DIRT-MAKER with the addition of a wind powered
 DD> turning mechanism. I use the resulting product to fill a hole where a
 DD> stump was ground to below grade. And I will soon have another similar
 DD> hole on the opposite side of the house.

 DD> It gets leaves, sticks, grass clippings, kitchen waste, etc. and turns
 DD> out black dirt in just a few weeks. I like the windmill feature (which
 DD> was added by the guy I got it from) as it makes it a "fill and forget"
 DD> thing until I am ready to take out the product and add more materiel.

 SH> The one we got is a Suncast TCB6800 tumbler. The axis is different and
 SH> it has armks inside to mix the compost while it is tumbled. It too is
 SH> supposed to be fast at making compost. I don't think I will be able to
 SH> automate the turning though, not without some serious modifications
 SH> first.

The one I have I got from Freecycle when the original owner moved into an
assisted living facility. He was quite ingenious with his wind powered drive to
turn the drum. It uses a pulley that looks like it may have served on a furnace
blower at one time and a small pulley driven by a bevel gear arrangement. Even
on a fairly breezy day the drum turns less than a full rotation. 

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Dutch Windmill Cookies
 Categories: Cookies, Snacks, Desserts, Nuts, Dairy
      Yield: 30 Servings
 
    1/4 c  Sour Cream
    1/2 ts Baking soda
  1 3/4 c  All-purpose flour
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/4 ts Ground cinnamon
    1/4 ts Ground nutmeg
    1/8 ts Ground cloves
      1 c  Firm packed brown sugar
    1/2 c  Butter; softened
           Sliced almonds
 
  These spice-flavoured cut-out cookies are creatively
  assembled to resemble the blades on a windmill in Holland.
  
  Heat oven to 350++F/175++C. Stir sour cream and baking soda
  together in small bowl. Combine flour, salt, cinnamon,
  nutmeg and cloves in medium bowl. Set both mixtures aside.
  
  Combine brown sugar and butter in large bowl. Beat at med
  speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Reduce speed to
  low; add sour cream mixture. Beat until well mixed. Add
  flour mixture; continue beating until well mixed.
  
  Divide dough in half. Roll out dough on lightly floured
  surface, one-half at a time (keeping remaining dough
  refrigerated), to 1/4" thick 9" square. Cut square into
  into 6 (1 1/2") strips. Cut each strip into 11 triangles.
  
  For each cookie, place 4 triangles (overlapping tips in
  middle) onto ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle sliced
  almonds in center of each cookie; press down lightly.
  Repeat with remaining triangles. Bake for 7 to 11 minutes
  or until set. Let cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes. Remove
  from cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
  
  Yield: 2 1/2 dozen cookies
  
  From: http://www.landolakes.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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