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On this Independence Day, I baked the KAF recipe for Wheat-Oat Flax Buns, with my changes, this morning. We are planning to grill hamburgers tonight.
Re: First Clear Flour. I may regret not having Mike pick up a bag for me, although storing 50 pounds right now might have been an issue, as we continue to wait on our contractor so that we can get the remodeling done--and then have a second good refrigerator. (The one we brought with us is in the apartment and working great, but the one that came with the house is on its way out, and we are hoping it will have enough life in it, by the time our contractor is ready to start, that we can qualify for the $50 rebate from the power company for removing a working inefficient refrigerator.)
My husband came back from his woodlands with a heaping quart basket of black raspberries. I was able to add in enough from those on our terrace to make two one-pint jars of jam this afternoon. Usually I make four one-cup containers, but my husband really likes this jam, so he said to go ahead and make two large jars this time.
Although the chipmunks are now getting into the black raspberries on the terrace, there are still a lot of black raspberries in his woods. I'm wondering about making a "pie filling" with some and using it in sweet rolls. If it works, then I could can some pint jars of black raspberry pie filling to use later in the year. I'll look for some recipes.
Bev--Now that you mention it, my grandmother may have just used cider vinegar and salt. Salt certainly brings out the sweetness of tomatoes. I'll mull this over. I picked up a lovely large heirloom tomato, a long thin cucumber, and a white onion at the farmers' market today, so I'm on the verge of experiment!
Len--I ran the Microsoft Defender scan, which said no problem, even as the problem persisted! MS was no help, and I stumbled upon the task bar fix on my own. (I was able to use Chrome with no problem.) Maybe I need to go back to Norton Anti-Virus, but it does not seem compatible with the Edge Defender--based on the computer mess I had back in February, in which I had to allow MS to strip off all my programs in order to get the computer out of a continuously spinning loop after MS downloaded some updates. In fact, that happened twice. (It's very irritating to have to put the sound driver back on the computer, among other things.) Supposedly the update assistant I added after the second time will cause that not to happen again, but I get nervous now every time MS puts on updates.
It hasn't always happened at Genius Kitchen, but it has happened there twice.
Thursday evening, I baked Double Ginger Biscotti with Pistachios. It’s my adaptation of a recipe from the June 1997 Bon Appetit. The second time I baked it (see April 8, 2017), I added 1/3 cup crystalized ginger (hence the “double” in my title). This time, I added ½ cup of crystalized ginger, as I wanted more ginger taste.
On Thursday morning, I baked Wheat Germ Corn Muffins, a recipe from the back of a package of Bob’s Red Mill wheat germ. I also found it on their site:
It is like most cornbread recipes, but it uses just half a cup of cornmeal and adds ½ Cup wheat germ. I substituted buttermilk for regular milk, so I added ¼ tsp. baking soda (did not reduce the 1 tsp. baking powder), reduced the salt from ½ to ¼ tsp.. Instead of melted butter, I used 3 Tbs. canola oil. I made them as 6 large muffins rather than 12 standard. I had a warm one with butter—delicious!
My husband thinks that our non-fruiting black raspberries show a genetic issue because they are a clone of the ones that grow behind our shed. Those also flowered but did not set fruit. We've noticed as well that, for some reason, there do not seem to be that many bees around.
