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I will create a 'cinnamon roll' topic and we can continue this discussion there. This topic has been closed.
It's not a cookbook I'm familiar with and one I don't think has been mentioned here in the past.
It only hit 100 today, but it never got below 75 last night and probably won't again tonight.
We're having some sweet corn and then sandwiches.
Searching for 'settlement cookbook' comes up with multiple books, I don't know if they're different editions of the same book or if the title has been used more than once. Lizzie Black Kander wrote one in 1901, for example.
IMHO, the biggest challenge with grinding your own flour is coming up with a good, affordable and consistent source of wheat berries. In addition to a good mill, a commercial bakery going that route might need to purchase some other equipment to clean the wheat and lab equipment to determine the quality of their flour.
For home bakers, milling your own flour is not a way to save money!
It hit 100 here today, so we had salad, some melon and then tomato and salami sandwiches. Supposed to hit 102 tomorrow. One of our ACs is out, the one for the 2nd floor bedrooms, our bedroom is on first floor. Somehow that always happens on the hottest week of the year. Repair crew coming tomorrow, but I won't be surprised if is time to replace this one. It's about 20 years old.
Even though I live on the fringe of the wheat belt (Nebraska is 11th in wheat production, Kansas is #1) and there are several mills in Nebraska (Ardent Mills has 2 of them), if I buy flour it usually makes a multi-state journey of 500 miles or more from the mill to the wholesaler, possibly to a retailer and then to me. It seems silly for me to have to buy semolina flour, most of which is grown and milled in North Dakota, and have it shipped from Ohio.
Yeah, tomatoes can hide in all that greenery. I didn't see the 4th of July tomatoes I picked when I was looking at the plants on Saturday, but they were there yesterday. I should look again today, there may be more I missed.
I've also spotted at least a half-dozen melons at least ping pong ball sized that I missed when we were looking at the garden Saturday evening. My goal on the melons was to start two sets of plants several weeks apart in the hopes that they didn't all ripen in the same 2 weeks in August. Not sure I succeeded at that.
Our Costco has King Arthur AP flour in 12 pound bags, I think the last one I bought was either $6.99 or $7.99.
I bought a 5 pound bag of the BRM white pastry flour locally, it seems to perform similar to the pastry flour I was getting from King Arthur and was quite a bit cheaper.
I just looked at the BRM site and there's nothing on it about the online store closing--yet.
Cinnamon rolls freeze very well. I've been making them using a tangzhong dough recently, it makes about 18 of them and I freeze them in bags of 2.
Snails (or schnecken in German) seems to be a common name for products that are rolled up into a spiral.
New York Bakers discontinued their retail store because shipping was getting too difficult for them.
I suspect finding help was part of their problem and is part of the problem at BRM, too.
I've not ordered much directly from BRM, but as to 'wide availability' there are quite a few products that they still make that I can't find locally. And they've discontinued a LOT of products.
I think the last time I ordered semolina it was a 25 pound bag from BRM, but I got it through somewhere like webstaurant.com, because their cost with shipping was less than from BRM by about $10.
One advantage of ordering from Amazon is that they have their own distribution network and some of their third party shippers have written that Amazon gets a better deal from UPS, USPS and FEDEX than they could get independently. But I will agree that problems with ordering from Amazon seem to be on the upswing. But it is also getting harder to find things locally, as stores are cutting products a lot, even WalMart. I was looking for some brackets to hang some curtains, nobody locally carried the type of bracket I wanted and their estimate on when they could get them was 2 weeks or longer.
But I do cringe these days when an Amazon order says it is being handled by USPS.
I've only ordered from walmart.com a few times, the last time it was a total disaster. The product never arrived, apparently it got damaged in transit and they sent me a notice about that but it took two months to get a refund. I did get a big tub of wheat berries from them once, but I went looking for it again the other day and it wasn't there.
Deb Wink has talked about the challenges she has taking a batch of sourdough starter to one of the classes she teaches.
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