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Dec '06
With the holidays just a few short days away I thought I would share a couple of my favorite recipes!
Creamy Broccoli Soup
1/4 cup Onion, minced
1 Tablespoon Butter
2 cups Milk
1 – 8oz. Cream Cheese (room temperature)
3/4 lb. Velveeta (or similar) Processed Cheese, cubed
1 – 10 oz. Chopped Frozen Broccoli (thawed)
1/4 Teaspoon Nutmeg
Dash of Pepper
In pan saute butter and onion just until tender. Reduce heat and add milk and cream cheese. Stir until melted. Add remaining ingredients and heat until hot.
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Ginger Cream Cookies
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Water
1/2 cup Molasses
1/3 cup Shortening
1 Egg
2 cups Flour
1 Teaspoon Ground Ginger
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoon Cloves
1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
Mix sugar, water, molasses, shortening and egg. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate one hour.
Heat oven to 400. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls 2″ apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until almost no indentation remains when touched, about 8 min. Remove from cookie sheet and cool. 4 dozen. Frost with your favorite frosting.
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The only way I ever knew how to make pie crust was with shortening. My daughter found a recipe that cuts out shortening altogether and I will admit even though I was skeptica at first it is pretty darn good!
Pie Crust
1 1/2 cup Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
6 Tablespoons Canola Oil
1 Teaspoon Vinegar
2-3 Tablespoon Ice Water
Mix all the above. This recipe makes ONE crust.
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Sour Cream Apple Pie
3/4 cup Sugar
2 Tablespoons Flour
1/8 Teaspoon Salt
1 Egg
1 cup Sour Cream
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon
2 cups Grated Apple
Mix the above together and put in a 9″ uncooked pie shell. Bake at 350 for approx. 45 min. or until set.
Topping:
1/3 cup Flour
1/3 cup Brown Sugar
2 Tablespoons Butter
1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Cloves
Mix topping ingredients with a fork or your fingers until crumbly.
Add topping to cooked pie by sprinkling it over the top. Bake another 15 min.
Enjoy!
Rebecca
Country Meadow
www.countrymeadowsoaps.com
Posted in Misc. December 21st, 2006 by Rebecca | No comments
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If you are in Western Washington and have the room and a big heart Hope for Horses is seeking foster homes!
Urgent Need: If you are living in Western Washington you have all seen the snow and felt the frigid air on your face. These winter months are the hardest for animals that are being neglected. Last year Hope for Horses rescued over 25 horses and nearly 15 of those came to us between November and February. This year we face a similar crisis. Right now Hope for Horses is working to rescue at least 19 horses that are in need. Hope for Horses needs your help. We are looking for good foster homes to place horses with and assist in the rehabilitation process of these wonderful animals. The process of becoming a foster is simple and the rewards are endless. If you have thought about fostering for Hope for Horses in the past, please don’t delay contact us today. Please review our foster guidlines and contact sarah@hopeforhorses.net or 360.453.4040 with any questions.
Posted in Charities December 21st, 2006 by Rebecca | No comments
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Our retail website is still being tweaked….
There may be some links that don’t work and some that just revert back to the original webpage.
We hope to have this corrected in the near future (read: next day or so!).
Thank you for your patience.
Rebecca
Country Meadow
www.countrymeadowsoaps.com
Posted in General December 21st, 2006 by Rebecca | No comments
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From Science World:
As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north-south position of the Sun changes over the course of the year due to the changing orientation of the Earth’s tilted rotation axes with respect to the Sun. This QuickTime movie illustrates the tilt of the Earth’s equatorial plane relative to the Sun which is responsible for the seasons. The dates of maximum tilt of the Earth’s equator correspond to the summer solstice and winter solstice, and the dates of zero tilt to the vernal equinox and autumnal equinox.
In the northern hemisphere, the Winter solstice is day of the year (near December 22) when the Sun is farthest south. However, in the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged so that the winter solstice is the day on which the Sun is farthest north. The winter solstice marks the first day of the season of winter. The declination of the Sun on the (northern) winter solstice is known as the tropic of capricorn (-23° 27′).
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a minimum for the year. Of course, daylight saving time means that the first Sunday in April has 23 hours and the last Sunday in October has 25 hours, but these human meddlings with the calendar and do not correspond to the actual number of daylight hours. In Chicago, there are 9:20 hours of daylight on the winter solstice of December 22, 1999.
Rebecca
Country Meadow
www.countrymeadowsoaps.com
Posted in Articles December 21st, 2006 by Rebecca | No comments