bruce Fine

O'k I'm trying again. Got fresh yeast, using same recipe with all the same ingredients except fresh bag of Bobs Red Mill bread flour. I will know more in about 3 hours.

proven fact. got right to the point with your doctor in the first 30 seconds of speaking with them

I plow it right into the garden along with the cleanup from chicken coop

The "best" also depends on where you are located, soil, moisture and other factors. around here at the edge of the smokies we have many varieties of trees. Trees can be a multi generational investment. I have observed over the past decade trees coming up on their own and having substantial growth. two stand in my mind right off the bat out boxelder and black walnut. boxelder is like a weed, grows fast comes up everywhere and maybe it is good for kindling. the wood rots fast if used to build anything outdoors with it. black walnut I have observed that has come up on its own grows almost as fast, has hard, solid desirable wood for lumber, is ok firewood but not good for smoking meats, and produces nuts that have a several uses. the hull of the nut has been used for dye and tattoo ink for milimium. I like trees that produce something you can eat and has multiple uses

all my drinking water goes through a berky.

found 2 lbs of fresh fleischmann's bread machine instant yeast. this will make lot of bread. $14 will have to find someone to share a pound with. I'm wondering is this the same yeast that can be used to make liquid corn drinking refreshment with.

the whole wheat that just made only has 1 5/8 cup water 2/3 cup brown sugar, 2 tsp salt 4 2/3 cup whole wheat flour,  and 3 1/2 tsp yeast.


im going to get a new fresh bottle of yeast next time I'm in the city. and a fresh bag of rye flour. I'm not sure but this time of year might yield from rye from this years harvest. the yeast, I have been using the cheapest stuff ive found in packets from Aldi for the rye in question.
if I cannot find a big container wholesale I'll just get a bottle of bread machine yeast from Walmart.

I have never had stove burn 8 hours and kept warm with the "high efficiency EPA approved" wood stove I installed half dozen years ago no matter what kind of wood I burned when it is 20 degrees outside.

Ok I posted here not long ago about this really awesome bread I made in the machine. 1 cup each of bread flour, dark rye flour and whole wheat flour, 1 tsp salt, 1 tbsp each molasses, oil, brown sugar and 1 cup water 2 tsp yeast. First time I made it most incredible bread I ever imagined I could make. the second and third times it came out like a brick. it just died not rise. Could the problem be old rye flour? I used the same yeast in a wholewheat loaf yesterday and it came out perfect.

whoever wrote you cannot eat them raw I beg to differ. I've been handing out samples and a women I met told me she has such fond memories of eating chestnuts from the tree in her grandmothers yard. I gave her a handful. she sat at her desk and peeled and ate them, raw. said they were delicious. At the American chestnut festival last Saturday at Cumberland Mountain State Park one of the Park rangers was cutting an X into the top. put them into a campfire popcorn popper and roasted them over a wood fire until they puffed up and browned just a little bit. we peeled and ate them when they cooled a bit.