You are here: Home / summer It doesn’t *feel* like 137. But then again, I don’t really know what 137˚ feels like. I just checked NWS heat index calculator using this temperature and relative humidity. 137˚F. So it’s not a glitch in my monitor.
Today’s low temperature was 72˚F. It occurred at 12:35pm just 65 minutes after today’s high of 98˚ Weirdest thing I seen in a great while. We didn’t get much rain, but right before it hit it got windy enough to flash the electricity a few times. Never went out but was enough to make me
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These sound good! I’ve already planned out Marica Cooks Wednesday, but maybe next week. With a nice little cold pasta salad I think it would be a good Summer Supper. From The Crisco Kitchen’s New Recipes for Good Eating (1949) “Serve hot with chili or tomato sauce.” FRIED DEVIL DOGS Makes 6 to 8 servings
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Forecast to warm up this week. Perfect weather for some slow cooker recipes. “Olive fans will love this Mexican-inspired dip made with lots of cheese, beef, refried beans and salsa. It’s the tasty green olives that make it stand out. Try it as a filling for taco shells, too.” Beth Dunahey, Lima, OH, Taste of
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Friend of the blog, jobethbrady gives us an update on this drink: I experimented with ratios. 1:1 was too sweet. I ended up preferring 1:4, ginger ale to beer. I used Miller high life because that’s what we had on hand. The ginger ale adds a bit of refreshing coolness. You can add an ice
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I mentioned to Bernadette, who blogs at New Classic Recipe, that we have a cookbook of nothing but cold food. Found it! Serve It Cold. June Crosby and Ruth Conrad Bateman. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, N.J. 1968. So with that, and these cold recipes from Mr. Big Food’s Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourish
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This is a bread machine recipe. I would be hard pressed to rank order our small kitchen appliances, but I’m sure the bread maker would come in the top 10. So convenient. The beer, brown sugar, raisins and spices give this bread a very distinctive and quite delicious flavor. I used a Yuengling Black &
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This is another very interesting summer drink, popular in India, all over Asia, and in England. Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy, The Good Cook Book (1947) For what this house affords usCome, praise the brewer most—Why caught into a bottleThe barley’s gentle ghostUntil our parching throttlesIn silence we employLike geese that drink a mouthfulThen
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Before 1850, hotels west of Chicago served no coffee but furnished pot, hot water and stove for guests who brought their own coffee beans along with their luggage. Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy, The Gold Cook Book (1947) ICED COFFEE Make double-strength black coffee infusion, allowing 1 ½ to 1 ¾ tablespoons finely ground
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February 26, 2015 Reporting in. @10:02am 93˚F, 65% RH, 112˚HI Nothing much more to say except sifting though my photo albums it’s interesting to see how the Farm has changed over the years. Stuff grows pretty well in this climate.
January 11, 2021 According to the thermometer in the shade on the wall of the Bunkhouse, it’s 90˚F. The hygrometer reports that the relative humidity is 65%. Doing the calculation, we discover that the Heat Index (if you put store in this metric) is 102˚. It’s 10:22am. Mr. Big Food is out there cutting the
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More Summer Jell-O Salads “Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise.”—Cookery, the Tried and True, by “Grannie Lu” CARROT SALAD V 1 package lemon jello, dissolved in boiling water, “or use Foundation recipe of Knox gelatin”1 can crushed pineapple4 medium carrots, scraped, grated, “raw carrots”“A little” salt Mix together pineapple and carrots, add jello or gelatin mixture,
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We’ll take a short break from the jell-o & ginger ale recipes and look at some classics. Oh! If anyone makes some of these, how about sending me a photo of it? I can post it and Mr. Big Food would love to include it in the recipe. Thanks! More Summer Jell-O Salads! CARROT PINEAPPLE
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More Summer Jell-O Salads! From The Carr House, Woltboro, New Hampshire, Adventures in Good Cooking (Famous Recipes) and the Art of Carving in the Home: A Duncan Hines Book (1939) “Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise in which whipped cream has been added.” THE CARR HOUSE GINGER ALE ASPIC SALAD 1 Tbsp Knox gelatin, soaked in
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More Summer Jell-O Salad recipes! GINGER ALE JUMBLE Serves 6 1 ½ tsp unflavored gelatin2 Tbsp orange juice1 Tbsp lemon juice2 Tbsp sugar½ C pale dry ginger ale¼ C drained crushed canned pineapple½ C diced canned pears¼ C halved strawberries1/3 C chopped nuts1/3 C mayonnaise or salad dressing½ C heavy cream, whipped Soak gelatin in
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Here we go! “Serve with salad dressing.”—Mrs. George Crittenden, Gourmet of the Delta (1958) QUICK GINGER ALE SALAD 3-oz package lemon jello¾ C boiling water1½ C ginger ale¼ C nuts, chopped½ C celery, diced1 C pineapple, crushed, drained, or 5 slices, drained, cut up¾ C grapefruit sections, seeded, cut into smaller pieces if desired Dissolve
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This is a good one, folks. Looks as if I even put the pewter serving platter in the fridge to keep things cold. Enjoy! Originally posted June 2016, updated May 2019; Serve with Cold Gazed Ham and French Potato Salad Created as a dodge for New York’s Sunday morning liquor laws, this zesty, pick-me-upper has
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“Now come recipes which I take pleasure in giving as I think we can show great patriotism, as did our mothers, in making good, wholesome things to drink from the fruits found in our part of the world.”—New Orleans Creole Recipes by Mary Moore Bremer (1982) “Canned blackberries may be used.” NEW ORLEANS CREOLE BLACKBERRY
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I checked the Big A in the sky and tartaric acid is available. One of the product descriptions says it’s: “Makes a nice summer drink, served either cold or over crushed ice.”—Mrs. John D. McCraine, Woodville, MS, The Mississippi Cookbook, compiled and edited by the Home Economics Division of the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service (1972)
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Originally published July 2020. Yesterday I was seriously involved with drudge work homemaking. At about 3pm I was in the kitchen and wondered what we were having for supper so I looked at the menu. OOPS! It’s Marica Cooks Monday! I had planned a cold salad supper so no big deal. Mr. Big Food made
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