When you start looking at these old recipes you start to find some that "everyone" makes. These are good examples. The Foolproof Chocolate Fudge recipe is on an old Broden Sweetened Condensed Milk label. This is the one that my mom used when she didn't want to go through the long, involved "make a ball" process from Aunt Sug's fudge recipe. I have that one someplace and will post it sometime.
This one is interesting because my wife remembers her mom making funnel cake. They were all together on one photocopied sheet. So you get 2 zucchini bread recipes along with the funnel cake.
While cleaning out some stuff I found my mother-in-law's recipe box. I've scanned in those that she actually used. I've always been fascinated by vintage recipes. I used to follow a "rescued recipes" blog so I figured I'd post these, scanned in, "as-is." I may post pictures and comments if I feel like trying them out. Jane was a lunch lady and then a teacher's aide. She usually cooked from memory so most of these are for desserts or baked goods. I just don't need to add that much to my mid section.
Every year we make adjustments and manage to make minor improvements to the process. After last year I made some adjustments to the pipe burner to improve the efficiency of the flame. This is one of the burners for on of our smaller pots.
I added new holes between the existing holes (we copied one of the existing burners) and increased the size of some of the holes to make them graduated. What I got was a very nice blue flame with no yellow.
It made a huge difference in getting the stew to temperature. It also made a hot spot in the middle of the burner that scorched the stew in that area. This is due to the shape of the carolina cooker pot being more pointed on the bottom that a more traditional/antique pot with a flatter bottom. I'll be welding some of the center holes shut and drilling new holes toward the outer edges of the burner.
The new jet burners worked great. We'll be building more. The keggle was another success. The convex bottom causes the boil to churn the pot and pretty much just shreds the chicken.
The big change this year was to how we process the stock. Everyone on the team has a bad back or shoulder or something. So we didn't want to crouch over to strain the stock into the 2 gallon buckets we use to chill/store it so we dumped it into my 15 gallon brew pot (Center). This allowed the fat to rise to the top and we drained from the valve, resulting in a lower fat stock.
Sometimes I can be a dumb-ass.
Last year I switched from a traditional folding wallet to a slim wallet. It's great. I don't have enough room to hoard my receipts so I use the app on my phone to do my expenses.(which really is a lot more efficient) And, I don't fell like I'm sitting on rock all the time. My big fear is that it's so easy to lose. So, after spending a quite a while looking for it the other day after I slipped out of my pocket, I decided that maybe I'll get a Tile Slim so that I can set a proximity alert and be able to find it if when I lose it again.
Go through the process of configuring it. Slide it in the wallet. Make a run to get pizza. Top of the drive a get an alert that I've left my wallet at home. Nope, it's in my pocket. Huh?.... odd...... Play with it at the pizza place and it seems to be working. Grab the pie and leave. Another alert about leaving my wallet at the restaurant.
Get home. Use the app to find my wallet, that's in my hand and nothing happens. Pull out the Tile push the button to find my phone and still nothing. Try the process again and it works....huh?.....
Head-banging, Gibbs slap myself, light bulb moment. The new wallet is RFID blocking. I can't put the Tile Slim inside and expect it to work. At least I have confirmation that the RFID blocking works. SMHat least The Stupid didn't hurt.....this time.
I've been building my radio communications supplies. I received my GMRS license a while back and have focused on that as my open air communications.
I added 2 GM-15 Pro's to my stock. I've been pretty happy with the previous Baofeng radios. They're cheap enough that I can easily stock spares. The importance of the "2 is one, 1 is none" was reinforced as one of the UV series decide to stop transmitting during this week's commo check. It works fine as a receiver, but no TX.
The GM-15 seems to be a pretty good radio for the price point. I'm getting decent ranges and so far they've held up.
I picked up a Gravely Commercial 10a last Friday. The old thing smokes like Snoop Dog but it gets the job done. The person I bought it from used it for clearing brush. That's my plan too. Did a great job during the first run-up at home.
I need to find the serial number to look up the manufacture date. They started manufacturing the C-10 in 1951. Considering it's age, it runs about as well as I do.
It'll need a little TLC but it does the job.
