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Skriven 2015-10-12 12:51:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: rye  was: bread
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-10-15  20:35 <=-

 RH>> It looks and smells like what I used to make; we've not sliced it yet
 RH>> to see if it tastes like it. It turned out quite well tho I kneaded in
 RH>> about a cup more flour than the recipe called for.
 NB>> Probably due to humidity, with all that rain you've been having... :)

 RH> Could be, we had more today. Third rainy Saturday in a row!

Sigh...  At least you aren't in drought conditions... nor totally
flooded out...  ;)

 RH>> I subbed in dry milk (for the liquid milk, just used another cup of
 RH>> water, and added caraway seeds & some gluten. Instead of doing it the
 RH>> way the recipe read, I mixed about half of the flour and the other drys
 RH>> (including the yeast), heated liquids to about 125 & added them, mixed
 RH>> well, adding more flour as needed. A lot less fuss; it's the way I do
 RH>> my whole wheat bread and had done the rye bread that way years ago.
 NB>> So basically, you did the changes you'd probably already have done to
 NB>> the original recipe over the years...  Does it taste like what you've
 NB>> been looking for, too...?

 RH> I think the taste is basically the same, from what I remember of the
 RH> old recipe. Others I tried tasted like they had too much cocoa--this
 RH> had none, and used molasses for sweetening vs honey or brown sugar. The
 RH> use of molasses is one thing that I'd remembered from the old recipe
 RH> but had trouble finding until UDD pulled it out.

Makes sense that it would have been a Pillsbury recipe, too...  :)
 
 RH>> Anyway, yesterday was our first day without rain (12 days of it),
 RH>> warm & sunny, today was the same. Very enjoyable but they're saying
 RH>> showers Friday night into Saturday again.
 NB>> We're getting the showers today... I'm sure the sunny days have been
 NB>> very enjoyable for you after so much rain...

 RH> I'm hoping to see more of them. (G)

I'm sure you are...  :)  Today is sunny, and supposed to be warming up
to almost 80... I've got the bedroom window open to try to warm things
up a bit indoors... it's been down to almost 60 indoors... The rest of
the week isn't likely to be at all as nice, according to the forecast...
 
 NB>> Probably not much more traveling if at all any more this year for me,

 RH> We have one very short (time wise) but long (distance wise) coming up,
 RH> not sure of our end of the year plans--depends on timing and finances.

The one you're about to do.... and then, maybe FL for the holidays with
Steve's parents...?
 
 NB>> Since we closed camp for the winter, I ended up bringing home some
 NB>> extras from RJ's fridge that he hadn't finished up in time... eggs, 
 NB>> a seasoned pork tenderloin, a couple of frozen from the pond Boyd
 NB>> Pond fish, a package of Johnsonville hot Italian sausage links,
 NB>> half a small tube of pate of foie gras, a loaf of cinnamon bread,
 NB>> maybe a third of a pound of bacon...

 RH> Quite a haul, there. How are you going to cook the pork tenderloin?

Probably just bake it... some of it might end up as leftovers... serve
it with some sort of veggies, maybe some baby red potatoes too... 

 NB>> He had tossed the fresh asparagus and peppers before I realized
 NB>> he had them, or I'd've gladly taken the asparagus home, too...  :)

 RH> Sigh! You still did quite well.

Almost too well...  (G)

 NB>> He had planned to eat down all the stuff in his fridge before
 NB>> going, but didn't quite manage to, and there wasn't time for him to
 NB>> cook it his "proper" way, on a woodfire, while I was up for the

 RH> I know, same story here. We usually don't get the fridge cleaned out
 RH> as well as I'd like it to be, before going on a trip. The last one did
 RH> quite well; the upcoming one, since we'll only be gone a few days, is
 RH> much less of a concern.

And this time, since both fridges up there were being turned off for the
winter, it was use up, take with, or toss...  His timetable got
disrupted, too, this time, since he made a day trip down to Rochester
environs to do some banking, and didn't quite make it all the way back,
but had to stay in Watertown while his jeep was getting the cooling
system replaced... it died dramatically on the way...  Good news, now he
also knows a good mechanic in Watertown... (G)

 NB>> weekend...  ;)   So far we've had the sausage, and I've had a bit
 NB>> of the bread and the eggs... we hardboiled half of them up at the
 NB>> Pond, for snacking on as needed, and I ended up bringing 4 of those
 NB>> home along with the half dozen raw ones...  :)   I think we're well
 NB>> stocked for the moment... ;)

 RH> OTOH, I went shopping for both Life Group cooking and stuff for us
 RH> yesterday. We were quite well stocked on some things, others, like
 RH> yogurt, we were out of. Now there are 11 cups in the fridge, had been
 RH> a dozen but I had one as part of breakfast. Bread in the fridge
 RH> included whole wheat, rye (both home made), English muffins, cinnamon
 RH> rolls (from the farmer's market, part of breakfast tomorrow), and whole
 RH> wheat sandwich thins. Eggs--both steamed (not hard boiled) and raw.... 

You'll come home to a decently stocked fridge... no need to have to shop
immediately when you get home... ;)

ttyl        neb

... "And so I thought to myself..."  but who else can you think to?

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