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  • in reply to: Cinderella Pumpkins for Baking #9604
    Mike Nolan
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      I think it's the first topic that really needed to be split, so I had to figure out what the tools were to do that. Not too bad, but not something I'd want to do every day.

      in reply to: Cinderella Pumpkins for Baking #9600
      Mike Nolan
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        Admin note: I split the discussion about mice off from the one about cooking Cinderella pumpkins.

        in reply to: Split: Mice (from Cinderella Pumpkin thread) #9582
        Mike Nolan
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          Admin note: I split the stuff about catching mice off from the Cinderella pumpkin thread.

          I prefer the older style Victor traps, with the metal trigger, over than the plastic ones, but both seem to work fairly well here. I alternate which I use, because mice seem to learn how to avoid one, so I switch for a few weeks.

          I tried the glue ones, a strong mouse just bounces around until he frees himself.

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          in reply to: The Vanilla Shortage #9581
          Mike Nolan
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            I'll check on the vanilla the next time I'm at our new Costco, which opened on Saturday and is only a few blocks from us. So far I've not been impressed with their website as a shopping experience, though. (Sams site is much better, IMHO.)

            They may not carry the same brand of vanilla at every store, and it might be their house brand, Kirkland.

            I know they only carry King Arthur flour in the northeastern US (though KAF uses mills in Kansas, among others), I'm not sure they even carry an 'unbleached' flour here.

            in reply to: Split: Mice (from Cinderella Pumpkin thread) #9573
            Mike Nolan
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              There is no scientific evidence I can find that essential oils keep mice away. Many of the websites that recommend it, surprise, surprise, sell essential oils!

              in reply to: Split: Mice (from Cinderella Pumpkin thread) #9571
              Mike Nolan
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                The problem with mouse and rat poisons is that you do not know where the dead bodies will be, perhaps inside your walls?

                in reply to: Split: Mice (from Cinderella Pumpkin thread) #9569
                Mike Nolan
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                  When we had our annual mouse invasion last fall, I baited several traps with some warm tempered chocolate, it did a great job catching mice.

                  in reply to: Mummy Hand Pies #9568
                  Mike Nolan
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                    We tend to buy the smaller sizes of bananas, but usually I make banana bread when we have anywhere from 2 to 4 bananas that got too ripe for eating, so I don't always have the same amount of banana in each batch, and the amount of banana I use doesn't seem to affect the texture much.

                    in reply to: Split: Mice (from Cinderella Pumpkin thread) #9554
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I'd happily send you some of my mice too, I've got multiple traps set up in the garage to catch them as they try to get out of the cold. These are sneaky mice, they've figured out how to lick the peanut butter off the trigger without setting it off, I wind up rebaiting all 4 traps nearly every day, whether I've caught a mouse overnight or not.

                      in reply to: Mummy Hand Pies #9553
                      Mike Nolan
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                        I just posted my banana nut bread/muffin recipe, which is pretty similar to many other recipes, except that I almost always add raisins and often add cinnamon.

                        in reply to: Mummy Hand Pies #9545
                        Mike Nolan
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                          Here's one of the 6 banana nut bread spiders I made using a mini-bundt pan,
                          Banana Nut Bread Spider

                          in reply to: Cinderella Pumpkins for Baking #9544
                          Mike Nolan
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                            So serve him the juice at breakfast. πŸ™‚

                            in reply to: usa pans #9539
                            Mike Nolan
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                              I have wondered about that as well, all those grooves seem like places for things to stick. They
                              might increase the rate of heat transfer between the pan and your dough, I suppose.
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                              Mike Nolan

                              in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 29, 2017? #9533
                              Mike Nolan
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                                I peeled, cored, cut up and pre-cooked about 11 pounds of Winesap apples today, the 2nd half of the ones I picked at the orchard two weeks ago. Made about 12 pounds of pie filling. (We finally had a killer frost Saturday morning, so the orchards are probably closed for the season, they usually close around November 1st anyway.)

                                I'll make 2 apple pies tomorrow for the Halloween buffet lunch at my wife's office on Tuesday, the rest will go in the freezer. (Depending on the size of the pie pan and how 'deep dish' it is, it takes between 36 and 48 ounces of pie filling per pie.)

                                I think I've got enough pie filling to last me until next fall, even if I make an apple pie every month.

                                in reply to: Aluminum foil #9532
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  I buy 18 inch x 500 foot rolls of aluminum foil at Sams Club. I also buy 18 inch wide plastic wrap in the big box at Sams. I bought a 1000 count case of full sheet pan size parchment paper at the restaurant supply store several years ago, since the half-sheet size ones are too small for my 3/4 size sheet pans. I've used less than half the box, so it'll last me quite a few more years.

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