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I bought a scale at a thrift store so I can attempt using weight based recipes, but I'll probably write down the volume for my own use. This is a big batteryless analog scale so its probably not very accurate. It will give me a starting point and most recipes have to be individually customized for the cook and the locale.
I was so happy when I found a part rye bread recipe that was old enough to be in cups and not grams/ounces two years ago. I wanted to experiment with rye but not enough to buy a scale. This was Brody's pumpkin rye recipe. Rye bread is complicated and uses different techniques than whole wheat.
I'm still not in a place to do much baking and the weather is just perfect to bake.

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I think the chocolatines look great. I wish I was close enough to eat them. My trouble with making chocolate sticks is that they are such a convenient size to snack on. I made a batch for pan au chocolat and ate more than half.

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My dream house would have a pantry with a hatch into the kitchen to keep extra pots and pans and cookie sheets, the sort of equipment that you don't want to get rid of but only use very occasionally like a turkey pan. I don't want a kitchen as a potemkin village where its made to look at but not use. I can see having two kitchens so mundane matters like cooking supper won't get in the way of very interesting projects.

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I've had the honeynut at the farmer's market. They look like a minature butternut squash about the size of a softball. Very sweet and tasty.

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For apple pie, it depends on whether one particular friend who is allergic to many spices will be around. If he is going to be eating it, then I just use cinnamon and sugar. If its left up to me I have cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, ginger and cloves.
I know one person who dislikes cloves and I might leave them out for his sake if he is expected.

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Looks nice. I read the Fleischmann's yeast version of the recipe. Did you let it rise on a floured towel and then just flop it on a baking sheet? I always distrusted the no-knead high hydration doughs, since I couldn't see how they avoided having parts of the dough being too dry and other parts being too wet. How did you avoid this?

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The apple galette looks wonderful. I wish I was there to eat it too. A glass of milk and a little cheddar cheese would go so well with the apple galette. Did you sprinkle it with sugar?

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I now have my maple syrup! It was waiting for me when I got back to my father's house in Kentucky. I had a whole week to organize things in Virginia and to see the Dentist and visit friends. Most of the time I spend only a day or sometimes two at my own home and barely have enough time to sort the mail and pay bills. This time my great achievement was to prune the bush back so it didn't block the front door.

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I am sorry for your tomatoes but that is a very cute picture. How did you manage to shoot it. I never tried to feed tomatoes to my rabbit when I had one. There is a lot of reports of squirrels eating tomatoes around here and chipmunks too, but we had enough rain. Perhaps they like tomatoes when its hot?

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My father is ripening tomatoes on an outside window sill, but some had to be thrown away due to squirrels climbing up to eat them. Do any of you have squirrel/chipmunk attacks on your tomatoes?
Mike I am impressed with 25 tomato plants in cages. How do you manage so many cages? Dad tends to stack them messily at the side of the yard. It must be great to have enough to can and juice as well as put in sandwiches.

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Do you have a recipe for maple fudge? Thats one of my favorite flavors. Also could maple syrup be used in cheese cakes, or would it be better just to pour it on top of a favorite cheesecake and not worry about the extra liquid in the cooking.

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Chocomouse;
I just contacted your husband about getting more maple syrup. 3 quarts seem to last about 2 years but I wasn't able to cook or bake much this last year. I like the maple syrup best poured on pancakes or in icing. Maple popcorn was also good. I felt guilty about using it in baked beans but that was tasty.

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Have a very happy Birthday. Thanks for keeping this group running.

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Very cute. Its cheaper than a professional model. I wonder if I would add enough laminated dough recipes to my repertore if I had one. Currently I don't make any laminated dough recipes but now rolling out dough by hand is a long labor intensive process.

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I can understand CO2 shortages for soft drink makers, but doesn't beer produce its own Carbon Dioxide from the action of the yeast?

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