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Offline Delmonico

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #260 on: February 09, 2005, 11:49:26 AM »
Well it might not be safe in the kitchen again, there are round loafs of my Czech Rye bread in the pan in the slightly warmed oven risin' to be baked.  I never feel safe the they are baked and the rogue yeast has died. 
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #261 on: February 09, 2005, 11:51:15 AM »
Hide the cat. Or maybe not.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #262 on: February 09, 2005, 12:02:07 PM »
Here I drug this out from the Historical Society:

This is my starter recipe, some areas of the country have good wild yeast that makes good starter.

I use French Champange yeast, have tried several kinds of yeast.  This has the highest tolerance to alcohol of any store-bought yeast.  It also makes lots of CO2 to raise your bread. 

It will make yeast type bread in just a little more time than store-bought yeast, with out adding yeast.  Sourdough is to be the yeast.  Course salertus (baking soda) is used instead of baking powder with quick breads.  Most modern cook books don't do sourdough properly.

Just dissolve 1 package of this stuff in 2 cups warm water, add 2 cups flour and stir.  In a couple of days when it starts to seperate add enough more flour and water to fill the container.  When it smells like a combination of sour milk, vinegar and beer it is ready to use.

Used to add a bit of sugar to other starters the night before using (for yeast bread) to kick start it.  Tried it once with this, it was crawling around the kitchen floor trying to attack my wife's cat when I came home.

 
 
 
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #263 on: February 09, 2005, 12:09:48 PM »
...trying to attack my wife's cat when I came home.

 
So, is that a good thing?  :D :D :D :D :D

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #264 on: February 09, 2005, 12:21:54 PM »
So here is the bread recipe that I'm usin'.

Talking with some of the local Czech Historians I have done some back engineering and came up with what we think is a recipe that would have been similar to what the Czech who settled here in Southeast Nebraska would have made, in the 1870's.

About a quart of sourdough starter
4 handfuls of rye flour
white flour
lump of lard about the size of a meduim chicken egg
1/2 handful of brown sugar
double pinch of caraway seed

Put the starter in a crock bowl the night before, stir in the brown sugar and a handful of white flour.  Cover with a towel. 

In the morning mix in the rye flour, lard, caraway seed and enough white flour to make a workable dough.  (Rye bread will be more sticky than other bread  doughs)  Let rise till doubled.
(A good starter will not take more than 2 hours at the most)

When it has doubled in size punch down and fourm into round loaves (2 or 3)  I place mine in a greased 15 inch skillet.  Let rise till doubled and bake in a medium hot oven for 35-45 minutes.

Cool on a towel or rack and spread the tops with melted butter.

I have decided in my not always humble opinion that this is the best bread in the word for a meat and cheese type sandwich.

I do a bit more searching when buying the rye flour, I do not use stone ground flour if I can find steel ground flour.  I do this to honor the Czech who settled in this region.  They are credited with bringing the steel roller mill technolagy to this area from central Europe.  It seems wrong to use stone ground flour in it.

Although I am not of Czech decent many of my friends are and I have been told I am an Honorary Czech several times by Czech folks who have eaten some of this rye bread.  If ya do sourdough give this a try.

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #265 on: February 09, 2005, 12:36:56 PM »
Me thinks he'z ignorin' my cat comments. Or the wife is lookin' o'er his shoulder with skillet in hand.  :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :o :o :o :o :o

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #266 on: February 09, 2005, 12:49:43 PM »
Maybe the cat is looking over his shoulder with the skillet in hand? ;)

Del, I really want to make a starter. What temperature does it have to be for it to work? And can I store it covered in a cupboard so the dogs and random mice can't get to it? I figure the pilot on the oven might be too warm. Maybe not, but I dunno!

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #267 on: February 09, 2005, 12:57:46 PM »
Maybe the cat is looking over his shoulder with the skillet in hand? ;)

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I hadn't thought of that.  :o :o :o

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #268 on: February 09, 2005, 01:09:55 PM »
I just store mine in the cupboard, not a problem.


I spent 9 years trainin' this stooopid cat and ya want the sourdough ta get it, ;D  ya know cats are so dumb it is hard to train them, but I have.   Kitty thinks I'm a god an worships me.  She bows at my feet.  She even helps me prove how dumb she is when someone comes over and I call her a dumb cat.  "No she's a nice cat they say as she sits on their lap being petted."  So what do I do, grab a fly swatter and say, "Come here you dumb cat and I'll beat you with this."  She comes over, lays at my feet and I beat her with the fly swatter and tell them, "See I told you she was dumb."

I even got her trained that in the mornin' if her dish is empty, she sits at the dish and don't say a word till the coffee is on, then and only then can she meow to let me know she needs food or water.

I could have trained her to lead and heal, but Rita whined about the training collar I had on her. 
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #269 on: February 09, 2005, 02:03:22 PM »
The world is safe, the bread is done.  The smell is wooooonnnneeeerful.   All spread with melted butter and coolin' on the rack.  The 2 venison roasts are in cast iron and in the oven.  Cold venison roast Samwhiches on sourdough rye with SHARP cheddar cheese, stone ground mustard and horseraddish fer supper.   ;D ;D   Might need some soup, heard the split pea and ham of 1999 was a good vintage.   :o :o 

I feel sorry for folks who have to have speaker food fer supper. ;D ;D ::) ::) :P :P :P :'( :'( :'( :D ;)

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #270 on: February 09, 2005, 02:04:57 PM »
But what about the temperatures? I thought I read someplace that it had to be around 70 degrees. My house is around 62 in the winter.


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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #271 on: February 09, 2005, 02:37:50 PM »
Dern scientists, they ferget about folks in the Alsakan gold rush, they used sourdough,  it'll just work slower, put it in yer oven with the piolet, er poilet that little flame that lights the oven ;D  a few hours before you want to use it.  If you keep it at 75 or more degrees you'll have to use it and feed it often.
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #272 on: February 09, 2005, 02:44:05 PM »
Them miners had piglet lights in their stoves?  ???

Ahhhhhh, C'mon.  yer yankin' my chain, aintcha?   ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #273 on: February 09, 2005, 02:52:44 PM »
Them miners had piglet lights in their stoves?  ???

Ahhhhhh, C'mon.  yer yankin' my chain, aintcha?   ::) ::) ::) ::)

The way Del was mangling the word, for a moment there I thought he was going to tell me to put it in the toilet!

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #274 on: February 09, 2005, 02:58:10 PM »

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« Reply #275 on: February 09, 2005, 03:47:25 PM »
Dern ya all, they kept it behind the woodstove. ::) ::)  Now be careful or I'll go off on one of my frothin' rages about modern cook books, fools on TV cookin' and stuff like that.  Dang how did folks cook before these dang self appointed folks thats got to have a band in the kitchen and others like them that think they have to mix the spices and sell it to you at 10 times what they are worth and won't tell you what they put in them and think ya gots to cook it at 317 degreess for 52 1/2 minutes or it won't turn out and couldn't pour unrine out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom and couldn't bake bread with out an oven termommyter or even get the dough made with out usin' 34 different measurin' cups and a still could not pour pee out of there boots with out havin' to measure it and take it's tempeeechure and would have to have a band playin' while they were doin' it.  There I feel better, did ya want meringue on yer' pie, I've got a bunch on my keeyboard. ;D
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #276 on: February 09, 2005, 03:55:06 PM »
Very nice rant, Del!

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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #277 on: February 09, 2005, 04:03:46 PM »
I still try'n ta figger out how ta mezur urine in a boot.  ???
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« Reply #278 on: February 09, 2005, 04:15:15 PM »
OOOpppppssss, Think I'll just go out the way I came in.......Buck 8) ::) :o :o :-\
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Re: Sure is quiet around here.
« Reply #279 on: February 09, 2005, 04:23:46 PM »
Thank ye kindly, I do my personna well, would you belive the Cosie Personna if I could not go on a rant like that, ya ought ta see Gopher Grease and I go off on a double rant, but not on each other, cooks have sharp knives. ;D ;D

Slim ya read the instrutions on the bottom of the boot and use a fancy measurin' device ya bought at the yuppie cookin' store that has yer favorite TV cooks name on it that ya paid 12 times what it was worth and ya had to drive 35 miles to a mall that stocked this brand of stuff cause when ya was watchin. TV the person on the show said the only way to measure urine in a boot was to buy there brand of urine measurer at the sotre in the mall where the kids hang out with there pants hangin' down and ya gots to park in the next county to find a parkin' place and ya almost gets run over by a Volo and 3 SUV's that won't never go off down a un-graveled road and haul a dead deer out of the fiel cause that would chip the paint and it might get blood on the carpet and what would the other soccer mom's think if their kids had to ride in a SUV with blood stains on the carpet that some one got on there cause they wanted to haul a dead deer home in so they could have sausage made for twice the price of sausage you don't have to supply the meat for, cause ya don't know how to cook just plain deer meat and the TV cook never showed ya how to make real sourdough rye bread, but offered to sell yo a sourdough starter for 39.98 pluse 7.98 shipping and handling, but ya got to add yeast to the recipe cause the starter couldn't raise bread if ya gave it Viagra, when ya could have logged on Cas-City and learned how do do it fer a package of yeast that cost less than a dollar at yer local Wino shop.
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