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Will has been doing most of the cooking for the last couple of months. I have baked my No Knead Cheese Burger buns and froze some. Before I left for Hilton Head, I baked 2 loaves of Harvest Grains bread for the freezer and my second batch of English Muffins from Baking Steel on my baking steel. Mine have been a little dense so I watched Andris' virtual class on You Tube and have found that I need to use a lighter touch with my dough. Next batch should be fine. I might even make the dough this afternoon to cook on Tuesday morning.

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Reporting back from the trenches:
Back in May, I read that the reason there was so much of the higher end beef available is that the restaurants who normally buy most of it weren't buying because they were either closed or cut way back. Sort of like the fact that the toilet paper companies had so much commercial toilet paper which wasn't being use.

August usually slows down after school starts but this year was different since a lot of people didn't go back so we were really busy - it continued on after Labor Day and even October has been nuts - supposedly, the resort has had it's best October ever - our hours are usually cut back but not this year.

As to masks, we still require them in the store - more and more people are wearing them after learning that they can help - we still have folks who believer it will disappear the day after the election. I have a co-worker who is intimidated to speak to a non-wearer - not me! Sometimes, they'll say all I want is a cup of coffee; I don't have a mask - I'll tell them we have them for sale and I'm sorry but they need one. They'll complain going out the door and then come back with one on. But if you are in the next town on the mainland or in our village, most people don't wear them. I still haven't been in the supermarket, Sam's or Target - I do curbside from all of them.

I've heard there's a canned pumpkin shortage - we've planted sugar pumpkins (late) so hopefully will have some by late November, December.

My brother and SIL (from Mass) came September 11th after driving down, dropping my niece off at college (where they seem to be doing a really good job), visiting her dad in Vero where his girlfriend said our mom did not die of COVID (we should show her the death certificate) and then came here for 2 nights - they stayed at our Inn where they gave them a room on the first floor, we buried my Mom in the Columbarium Saturday morning with my sister there via FaceTime. We will have her celebration of life service whenever the time comes that we are allowed to meet in the church.
They had been cautious the whole time and were tested 4 days after they got home and they were and are negative.

I did leave town 2 weeks ago to visit a friend in Hilton Head (her son is the one with the CDC and said we were fine to be together). Hilton Head has a LAW that says you are required to wear a mask in public places - restaurants, hotel lobbies, stores and outdoor venues that are crowded. They have wonderful signs to remind people and the staff are all great about it. We ate outside, very distance - I took photos of all their signs and when I got back my local friends all said they wished we could do that.

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Glad you figured things out BA, I enjoyed being part of this discussion before work and estate stuff took over my life.

I have had self-rising flour on occasion (I could count the number of bags on 3 fingers) The first might have been White Lily and I know I tried a bag of KAF (I was still in Massachusetts), but didn't think it was worth keeping on hand - I don't make a lot of biscuits. I remember in Ireland, there tending to be more self-raising flour on the shelves in the Market - had to read labels carefully - I got my "regular" flour at the health food store.

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I got some of the cheese powder, and didn't even notice the name change (of course, my old jar was several years old and we used it up anyway). The new one was great in my No Knead Cheese Burger Buns (KAF0 It's our go to recipe. It made me realize how stale my old one was.

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Popping back in myself after the last couple of months. I appreciate your sending an email, Mike - this is great for a pie-phobic like me, but I probably won't be making pies for Thanksgiving this year unless there is an outdoor gathering - it's just down to Will and me.

Great to hear from you, Cindy Leigh!

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I actually knew it

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On Friday, I backed a loaf of my version of Harvest Grains bread - I must not have been paying enough attention to my ingredients (I was sort of rushing) and it came out a little denser - it was still very good and Will's already eaten about half of it.

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We have a couple of hummingbirds here on the Georgia coast. We had hung up Nate's hummingbird feeder and put in a few plants to attract them. They were already here, but we also brought over the hummingbird/butterfly window box from my moms - it seems very happy sitting in our "garden."

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That looks fun Mike. My best friend sells Juice+ tower gardens and keeps trying to get me to buy one. When I told her about our plot at the community garden, she tried to tell me the tower was better because we’d have to deal with pests in the soil - we did that for spring planting - a couple of Northern gardeners, our Mexican Chef and our local Cook - and we learned A LOT. For fall planting, building new raised beds put over black ground cover, clean dirt, compost and peat. All our seeds are here - as many disease resistant and hardy ones as we could find. We’re going to plant following the square foot method. We can harvest into November, even things like snap peas, haricots vert and cucumbers. We figure we have a better shot at getting things right.

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Thank you Mike. Now I have 3 posts that all say the same thing - Ha!

BA I didn’t see the amounts at first either - by my 3rd copying I found that information. There is a little grayish box on the right hand side that lists the ingredients - when you see it, you’ll know, but they didn’t make it easy

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I just posted a reply and must not have hit send. I went to the website of my favorite flour over there Doves Farm. I’ll repost the links to their self-raising flour, a recipe for baking powder, and a recipe they have for making your own self-raising flour. Plain flour has less protein than KAF AP, strong flour has a higher protein and that’s what I primarily used
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/products/organic-self-raising-white-flour-x-1kg
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/how-to-make-your-own-baking-powder
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/how-to-make-self-raising-flour

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I wonder if that is the case - let me see - I just went to the website for my favorite flour when we lived in Ireland the three links below are their self rising flour and it’s ingredients, how they recommend making baking powder and their recipe for making self-raising flour. Plain flour has less protein than KAF all purpose - I usually used strong flour which is higher in protein

https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/products/organic-self-raising-white-flour-x-1kg
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/how-to-make-your-own-baking-powder
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/how-to-make-self-raising-flour

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Oh yum, that looks good.

I made a sticky toffee pudding because Sam’s had a 2 pound box of Medjool dates for under $8. We’ll dig into it shortly

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So I have now tried to post three times and not one shows up. The last one popped up bu then I edited it and it went away. It shows at the top that I posted

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I just posted twice and it hasnt shown up. I’m confused but this one did I’ll try again. I posted links to the website for my favorite flour in Ireland. Doves Farm is an organic British company. Their plain flour has less protein than KAF AP. I usually used strong flour as it closer to KAF AP. I found the ingredient list for their self-raising, a recipe for homemade baking powder and one for making your own self-raising flour. The comparisons might help in your quest for your scones.
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/products/organic-self-raising-white-flour-x-1kg
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/how-to-make-your-own-baking-powder
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/how-to-make-self-raising-flour

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