[Mike Nolan]

I like barley in soup, but my wife doesn't, so I don't cook with it much, though I do use a little barley flour in some breads. (Right now I can make any kind of bread I want, as I'm the only one eating it.)

[Mike Nolan]

There's a tire dealership near me that posts witticisms on their sign, one they post frequently reads:

Family owned
shut up
no you shut up

Having grown up with 4 brothers and a sister, that sounds like a family to me!

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[Mike Nolan]

We used to use a large wooden box with a hardware cloth bottom. Us kids would walk across the walnuts, sliding our feed to scrape off the green goo. This was not something you did with shoes you wanted to wear anywhere else, though.

[Mike Nolan]

I wonder if the walnuts they're referring to are English walnuts? Black walnuts are very hard and difficult to crack.

[Mike Nolan]

The peanut-contaminated flour recall has spread to Kelloggs, which has recalled 17 items, including some Keebler and Famous Amos products.

See Kelloggs recall

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[Mike Nolan]

Recently I've been making the Clonmel Kitchens Doubly Crusty Bread, subbing butter for the oil and shaping/slashing/baking it like a Vienna Bread. We actually did a taste test on this recipe vs the Vienna Bread recipe in BBA, and the Clonmel Kitchens recipe won out. I don't know if PaddyL has posted that recipe here yet, I know she's been on the site a few times but hasn't posted or uploaded much yet.

I divide it into 3 loaves, each around a foot long after shaping. This makes a nice small profile slice, great for a sandwich; if I want bigger slices I make 2 bigger loaves. I usually freeze 2 out of 3 of them, because I don't eat as much bread as I used to, either.

With my wife on her 20 carbs a day diet, she's not eating bread at all these days, so I haven't made the honey wheat recipe in over a month.

[Mike Nolan]

Glad to see you made it through the gauntlet. It may be frustrating but it is an evil necessity these days to keep the spammers out, most of them coming from countries most of us probably couldn't find on a map. (I'm must be on at least a half dozen WordPress-driven sites these days, I think mine is kind of in the middle for Draconian-ness.)

There's a different card from me en route, Cass, might not get there until Thursday, though.

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[Mike Nolan]

As scones recipes go, this one is not very sweet. Other recipes may have as much as 1/3 cup of sugar to 2 cups of flour. (But Southern cornbread recipes have little or no sugar in them, so it may be a geographical thing.)

[Mike Nolan]

Something like this may work for you:

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200442219

My mother spent hours every winter sitting at the kitchen table with a sad iron and a tack hammer cracking walnuts.

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[Mike Nolan]

Barley has gluten proteins in it, but I don't know how much gluten it has relative to wheat. The USDA database says barley flour is 9% protein, while bread flour is 12%, so it may be similar to lower protein soft what flour.

As to sources, Bobs Red Mill and Arrowhead Mills both have it, and so do various online bulk sellers. Check the natural foods/health foods aisle at the grocery store. If you have a Mexican grocery nearby, look for Harina de Machica.

Because it is a low-volume product, it is usually more expensive than wheat flour. A typical price for a 5 pound bag online appears to be around $12, plus shipping. Honeyville sells a 50 pound bag for about $44, plus shippping.

[Mike Nolan]

The rosetta and the michetta stamps look similar, the difference is the rosetta stamp probably doesn't make as deep an impression, since it doesn't have gaps in it. Other than that, I think they'd be pretty interchangeable, and either would be fine with me.

We definitely want the cast aluminum one as opposed to the plastic one, though.

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[Mike Nolan]

I hope you're reading this, Cass, so you know how much we all appreciate you. Happy birthday!

[Mike Nolan]

I'm in, for sure!

As I recall, it was the recipe in Italian towards the top of that thread that I tried and liked, though I could never get a hollow center.

I could order a dozen items off that Italian website!

[Mike Nolan]

Sorry, but my wife promised the caterer she got her scones recipe from years ago that she would not redistribute it. (I have a French Onion soup recipe I got from my French teacher with the same conditions, because that's the conditions under which she got it from a chef in France, she's only allowed to give it to her students.)

But search for buttermilk scones on the net, there may be similar recipes out there.

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[Mike Nolan]

I'm sure you know that Lemon Curd is a dangerous substance, you need to get rid of it as quickly as you can, I recommend getting rid of it with a spoon and a batch of scones! 🙂

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