Dear Mothers,
Ya know homemade noodles are so easy to make. And they are just flour and eggs salt and pepper. So if you have just these few ingredients and some meat and vegetables, you can make a meal. I used to make the noodles and add spaghetti sauce and hamburger to it. I have also made my own lasagna noodles. Once you learn to make these noodles, you will have a ball with them and they taste so much better than store bought.
Dear Mothers,
Boy am I prayin' about bein' on the radio! There are some obstacles that I am prayin' about. I am just casting my cares upon Jesus. Oh, mercy, I want so much to be able to go into the home of mothers with a live message. I want Mothers at home to hear me say, "You can make it. It's OK. All is well!"
Ya know I see so many people using store bought chicken broth on these cooking shows ... seems sorta silly to me. My friend Jill used to jar up quarts and quarts of all kinds of broth to use in recipes. Jill, if you are reading this, would you please tell about all that broth you used to make and can? Anyway, this is how ya make chicken broth.
Dear Mothers,
Johnny stopped by for a minute yesterday. He and David made it back from NYC almost in one piece. John told me, "Well, Dan broke my rib." I know Chrissy was waiting for John to tell me that. Those wild and crazy brothers wrestle all the time. After Dan did that, John took Dan's head and rubbed it on the carpet until he got a big rug burn on his forehead. I bet Dan looks perty. I asked Christine (John's wfe) what she thought. She just looks at John in silence and shakes her head. I think it's just one rib. PTL. I told John to put a wrap around his chest but I don't know if he will or not. But now I know why Chrissy was calling the brothers barbarians.
Yesterday I wrote a second part to my writing about Farmers Cheese. Well, my email machine got stuck when I was sending it out. So I had to unplug it and I lost my writing. So I am going to write about Farmers Cheese again.
Good Morning Kitchen Saints,
I am up early makin' coffee and planning my day. Papa bought me whole quart of cream for my coffee and to make yogurt with. I still have about 2 cups of yogurt left from my last batch. I may just make bread with it.
You need a big gallon jar to make this mix. Or just make it in a big bowl or a sack* and then distribute it into other containers. But this mix will last a big family the whole winter, well past Christmas.
Ok, put in your bowl:
7 and a half cups of instant milk.
Add:
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of cocoa
one fourth teaspoon of salt.
Now mix this up really good and you got it, Darlin'. Use a third cup of mix for a mug of hot water.
I am going to give you a recipe for a Baking Mix. I used to use this mix a lot around Christmas, as it is so quick and easy to use. You can use it for pancakes or muffins or quick breads. I used mine mainly for pancakes and biscuits.
Here is the mix. First off, you may have to go to the Buck Store and buy a big plastic dish pan to mix all of this in. Or use a big turkey roaster. Or, possibly, use a big paper grocery sack? I mean, put 2 paper sacks together to make it strong. Then roll down the top of the sack to make a bowl. Roll about half way down.
Here is the Recipe.
Dear Wise Christmas Sisters,
Yesterday, Papa and me went to the Dollar Store, and I got so many cute things. I put way more in my shopping basket than what I need. Then, just before I got to the check out, I put a bunch of stuff back. I will say about candy and crackers, "Oh, I don't need them I can make them." And I will look over my cart and think of what I can make at home and not buy.
My ketchup recipe is so fun to make, and I can't wait to do it myself. We are waiting for our tomatoes to turn red.
You take, like, 8 pounds of tomatoes and a few onions and peppers, clean them up, cut the seeds out of the peppers. But just core the tomatoes and you can keep the skins on. Then have 3 cups of white vinegar ready. You need a blender for this. Just put some vinegar in your blender and start blending tomatoes, etc. and pouring it into a big roaster. Pour some in the roaster and leave some in the blender to keep blending until all of the vegetables are ground up.
