Carrot Nut Bread

This recipe also came from the Kansan Silver spoon cookbook of 1967.

Carrot Nut Bread
Mrs. Donald Garrison

3/4 cup salad oil
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup carrots, grated
1/2 cup nutmeats, chopped ( I used walnuts)
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix salad oil, sugar and eggs. Add carrots , nutmeats and vanilla. Add dry ingredients that have been sifted together. Mix well and pour into greased loaf pan. Bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours at 325 degrees.

Mine baked in 1 hour.

Baking powder biscuits

Let`s try this again I accentially pushed the enter button.This recipe came from the Kansan Silver spoon cookbook of 1967. These are not fluffy biscuits, but good.

Grandma`s Baking powder Biscuits
Mrs. Tom Selby

2 cups flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, unbeaten
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 Tablespoons sugar ( optional)
2/3 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 cup shortening
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add shortening and blend well. Pour milk in slowly and add egg. Stir until stiff. Turn dough onto floured board and knead 5 times. Roll out to 1/2 inch thick.Cut out biscuits Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 450 degrees. Makes 12 to 14 biscuits.

Grandma`s Baking powder biscuits

ducks,one of my roos

These are 2 of the cayuga ducks that are now in the bator, their is a total of 10 ,all vary in color, there maybe 1 or two from pen number 2, which has 1 cayuga hen and 1 crested and 1 swedish hen and a cayuga mix drake.These eggs should hatch a week after it turns spring.The Chicken eggs should hatch on the first day of spring, what a way to bring spring in baby chicks.I think the muscoveys should be laying soon as well, they are not penned up, so it`s like a egg hunt for them lol, if the hen is not started setting on them.The other picture is one of my roosters, he is out of a frizzled rooster and a red cochin hen, their is a couple of frizzle eggs in the bator as well.

duck eggs

I am still getting cayuga eggs, they are lighter now, almost white now. The ducks in the other pen are not laying yet, neither are the muscovies.

some people.......

All this week the school that the girls go to school at is having a basketball tournment. Last night, we went and one of the opposing team`s players tried to pick a fight with a couple of the player`s on the team.I think this is so wrong for these girls to behave in this way.Needless to say, We won the game.
I am so glad we won the game yahoooo!!!!!!!! The girls cheer tonight at the games....hoe down throwdown....

Applesauce rolls

This recipe came from the year of 1967 (Kansan ,again)
It`s called applesauce rolls,but it`s good using applebutter as well, homemade applebutter I might add.


Applesauce Rolls
Mrs. Elmer Dollard

2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 heaping Tablespoons shortening
3/4 cup milk
1 cup applesauce, thick, strained ( pint of applebutter)
2/3 cup brown sugar
cinnamon
margarine
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Using a fork, mix in shrotening. Slowly add milk to make a soft dough. Spoon dough onto a floured board. Roll or pat into 4-inch thick retangle. Spread on applesauce. Sprinkle with brown sugar . Dot with margarine and sprinkle with cinnamon. Roll like a jelly roll. Turn in ends and cut in half with sharp knife. Cut each half in six slices.
Place each slice in a greased muffin tin and sprinkle each with more sugar and cinnamon. Top each with a dot of margarine. Bake 20 minutes at 425 degrees.