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Odds and ends…
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:31
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I just I thought I’d post some pictures of some of the things I’ve been up to the last couple of days…The time change has me waking up earlier. Early for me, anyway. 
When I save up 4 gallons of goat milk, it’s time to make cheese!
…and wash the empty jars:
Cutting the curd:
Draining the curd… I LOVE making cheese, now that I know what I’m doing. It was hard to learn.
It’s all in the press now:
I made a 3-loaf batch of long, slow – rise whole wheat bread:
I had been saving up leftover fats from cooking for quite a while. I also had several small jars of salve I had made that was not up to par, and so I combined all of that together to make soap. Here the fats are melting:
The water and lye ~ ALWAYS add the lye TO the water, not the other way. If you add water TO the lye, it can explode!
Here I’m mixing the soap with a hand-held blender:
And now it’s at “trace.”
Here is the soap after I cut it into bars today. It will be interesting to see what it’s like after it cures for a while.
I tried sprouting some broccoli seeds…
but the seeds must be old, because they didn’t do too well.
I ate a yummy banana:
While I was looking at pictures of newlyweds on our fridge.
A trip to the hoop house resulted in things for a nice salad:
And I started a batch of sauerkraut in a Pickl-It jar:
I really don’t have any new recipes to share with you right now. If you have any questions about any of these things, just leave me a message!
2012-11-07 07:00:48
Source: http://simplyhomemaking60.blogspot.com/2012/11/odds-and-ends.html
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