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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau
With the coming of Autumn, I have been baking. I've baked pumpkin bread, banana muffins, cookies, banana bread and lemon bread just in the last two weeks. Fortunately, I've had several teens and my 12 year old, in and out of the house, so I don't have to eat it all myself:) When I was looking up a drop cookie recipe I came up with the idea of writing an article for each type of cookie; drop, refrigerator, bars, etc. I started out with drop cookies since my daughter had asked for a double chocolate cookie earlier in the week.
The article has my tips plus a couple of vintage tips from cookbooks, and the recipe for the cookie I made for Emily. You'll find it here: http://oldfashionedliving.com/Old-Fashioned-Drop-Cookie-Tips.html
Next week I'll share tips for the other methods of making cookies.
~Have a wonderful weekend! Brenda
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.
~Emily Dickinson
Saturday we spent the day at our small town's fall festival. We ate bake sale cookies and hot chocolate, watched the parade and the lumberjacks playing with logs:) It was a lovely day.
Fall always makes me want to bake, but I also love getting out my favorite soup recipes, which are perfect for warming up on a cold, blustery day. I wrote an article after I was looking through one of my old cookbooks for soup ideas. I ran across a section in one of them with tips on seasoning soups with herb vinegars, herb bouquets and more. My herbs are doing wonderfully now that we're past that dry period we experienced this summer, and I've been harvesting them quite heavily before the cold weather sets in. I think you'll enjoy the tips on making your own herb vinegar.
You'll find the article here: http://oldfashionedliving.com/Old-Fashioned-Soup-Flavorings.html
I hope you all have a wonderful week,
~Brenda
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps
Today was one of those wonderful autumn days where the breeze was cool, but not cold, the sun was shining on the brightly colored trees and the air was crisp and fresh. I walked out to my raised bed and snipped herbs to use in vinegar, and enjoyed the day. I love everything about fall days, including the harvest of apples, pumpkins and squash. I wrote an article for OFL today with vintage apple recipes from several of my favorite old cookbooks. You'll find recipes for:
Apple Corn Cakes
Steamed Apple Pudding
Apple Sponge
English Apple Pie
I provided notes after each recipe explaining some of the old measurements, such as "butter the size of an egg". I love the old measurements:)
The article is here:
http://oldfashionedliving.com/Old-Fashioned-Apple-Recipes-2.html
~Brenda
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
As a mother to three kids I have participated in book fairs, candy sales and more fundraisers than I can count, but my favorite will always be bake sales. Who can resist homemade baked goods? I wrote an article for OFL with tips on holding a bake sale and shared one of my favorite bread recipes that has some really nice variations.
You'll find the article here:
http://oldfashionedliving.com/Old-Fashioned-Bake-Sales.html
~Brenda
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau
I remember the first year my husband and I moved to a duplex, and though it was still in the city, it had a backyard with a maple tree. I hung my first birdfeeder and was hooked. I love feeding and watching the birds, especially in the winter. We live in the country now, and I still put out birdfeeders, but I also plant flowers and herbs that I can leave the seed heads on for the birds. I wrote an article for OFL this week explaining which plants will provide seed for the birds in the fall and throughout the winter.
The article is here:
http://oldfashionedliving.com/Providing-Food-for-Neighborhood-Birds.html
I hope you have something planned for outdoors this weekend. We are visiting my son at college, which has a beautiful campus. It's homecoming and they have family activities scheduled all afternoon. I can't wait:)
~Brenda
A tangerine and russet cascade
Of kaleidoscopic leaves
Creates a tapestry of autumn magic
Upon the emerald carpet of fading summer.
~Judith A. Lindberg
I meant to blog this weekend but we ended up taking a family outing to an art festival in the city. We've went every year for four years now, and it was nice to walk and chat
with the kids. We even picked up my son at college to come along with us. We shared Chinese food from a stand outside a sushi restaurant, and had a lovely day. Our next outing is apple picking!
Fall has been in the air, and I realized I hadn't given any harvest tips yet, so I wrote an article on freezing homegrown produce and herbs . Freezing is a good way to go for preserving many vegetables and herbs. I share what freezes best, and which methods work well.
The article is here: http://oldfashionedliving.com/Freezing-the-Vegetable-and-Herb-Harvest.html
~Brenda
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life. ~R. Search
Each spring I take walks around our property looking for green popping up from the ground. It never fails that I look a tad too early, and wonder why the daffodils aren't sprouting yet. It's hard to be patient after a long winter. It's even more difficult to gear up for planting in the fall for blooms that won't be seen for several months. I wrote an article the other day for Old Fashioned Living on naturalizing bulbs. Yes, I was a bit long winded, but there were a lot of tips to share on the subject. Naturalizing is such a whimsical way to plant bulbs that it's hard not to smile while I'm writing:)
The article is here: http://oldfashionedliving.com/How-to-Plant-Bulbs-for-a-Burst-of-Color.html
~Brenda
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