Teresa helps Mama with Supper

Teresa has been learning young to be a helper….

What we’ve been up to

Since our visitors left on Tuesday, we’ve been planning school for this fall (yes, still planning, even though we’ll be starting in just over a week!), picking cherries, making cherry jam, peach jam, peach wine, and pear butter.  And last of all, we’ve been getting sick.  Yes, again.  For the third time this summer!  So [...]

Cherry harvest

Pitting the cherries:

Cherry muffins:

Yummy!

More on high-altitude cooking

I made more bread yesterday, four loaves this time.  I followed basically the same routine as last time, only I didn’t warm up the water at all this time, and just mixed the yeast in with the flour instead of getting it started in warm water.  This worked out pretty well, and slowed things down [...]

High Altitude Bread

I made my first batch of wheat bread here yesterday. I had first looked online to see what the effects of high altitude would be on yeast-bread baking, and mostly what I found was that it would rise faster than usual. Doesn’t sound like a bad thing, although bread that rises too fast [...]

Elevation Observations

The elevation here is around 5400 feet above sea level, which in theory should mean we will see some difference in how things cook and bake.  I haven’t done a lot of baking yet – just corn bread and an apple spice cake – but haven’t yet seen any difference there.  Probably it makes more [...]

Making Peanut Butter

We’ve been making our own peanut butter lately. Delightfully easy, and very good! I just dump three cups of peanuts in my food processor,
then run the processor for about two to three minutes,
and when it all clumps together, it’s done!