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Homemade Recipe

Homemade Buttermilk

Happy Thursday, on this glorious North Florida day!

It is so beautiful outside, with a blue sky day and an awesome windy, breezy day. I was outside for most of the day and almost had to beat myself with a stick to make me come back into the apartment, but a neighbor sent me on my way to do this post for you.

I started out washing the outside doors of my apartment and went on to do all the outside window cleaning. Also, I cleaned and prepared my gas grill so that it will be ready when I am, which may be very soon with this beautiful weather!

After all that cleaning, I had gotten hot and sweaty so I made an ice-cold coke and sat out back in my rocking chair with my refreshment. I was watching a buzzard that was gliding on the wind currents, I also was watching a wasp and a news-carrier wasp (they don’t sting). The skeeter hawks were everywhere. And my wind-chimes were singing in the wind. I could have sat there all day, with nature for my company.

Onward to the recipe tip that I have for you today, as I just may, sneak back outside and disappear into nature for the remaining time of this day, as nature holds my heart and soul, very near,

Ok, enough! 1 glass of milk with 1 TBSP vinegar stirred into it.

You can use lemon juice instead but I prefer vinegar. Let this sit for 5 minutes and it is ready for your recipe that you need it for. Or, it is ready to drink if you love buttermilk as I do!

I truly do thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you will visit again and share these recipes. Connie B.

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Homemade

Pickled Eggs

I ran out of pickled eggs so I had to make more.

Good Evening All! I have had a busy day today so I am late doing my post for Thursday. I hope all is well at your house and with all of your family.

Let’s get right into this recipe!

4 cups of apple cider vinegar ( I made my own) so it’s your choice of vinegar.

1 cup of water 1/2 cup of Kosher salt

4 cloves of garlic 1/2 tsp Cumin 1 tsp Cayenne

1 tsp Orleans Cajun Spice Seasoning (Publix)

This half-gallon jar takes 2 dozen large eggs. I have to add another dozen to mine. A quart jar holds a dozen eggs.

I put some baking soda in my egg water as they were boiling, to help shell them easier. ( It might have supposed to be something else) I can’t remember what people use., but it worked well for me.

Peel eggs and wash very well for any bits of shell. Add all other ingredients to a medium-sized pot and get it just too hot, not boiling.

Let it cool down and put the jar top on. Keep in the refrigerator for 3-4 weeks before you open the jar to eat one. These keep for about 2 more months.

Thanks for stopping by, if you did. Connie B.

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My First Egg Rolls

Good Morning, Everyone.

I hope your day goes well! Mine already has started off well, as I sat on the back patio with my chocolate cappuccino coffee. I heard my first turkey hen, this morning along with the red birds and mocking birds.

Yesterday, I saw my very first hummingbird at my feeder. I love those tiny birds. Enough, now onward to the recipe of the day for my post.

These are my very first egg rolls and they are crunchy good.

I used some of my canned jar chicken as I want someone that does not eat pork to try these. They turned out very well. But I will use pork next time as that is the one that I used to order. No more ordering these for me now!

These are very fast to put together and fry up. The time involved is getting the ingredients together on the counter.

You will need 1 pack of eggrolls (by the cut-up fruit and salad section).

1 package of cut-up coleslaw. (3 large cups).

1 fried porkchop diced tiny or 1/3rd of a cooked chicken breast diced finely. I just like to start with cooked meat but the Chinese recipes use raw meat, to begin with.

Sesame oil 3 TBSP Jar of minced ginger (3 TBSP)

Jar of minced garlic (2 TBSP) 1/4th onion diced finely

salt and pepper 1/16th tsp of each.

Use a large frying pan and add in the sesame oil-pork-onion-ginger and garlic. Saute for 1 minute and add in the soy mixed with the water and the salt and pepper. Also, add in the coleslaw and saute for 1 to 2 minutes more. You want your coleslaw to be crunchy and not soggy.

Put this mixture aside in a bowl and let it cool down to room temperature. Then you make up a small dish of water and open the package of egg-rolls. Get out one egg-roll and have a point of the egg-roll pointing towards you. Fill across the middle with a medium amount of filling.

Wet your finger with the water and run around all the edges of the egg-roll. Then fold over the top-roll-then catch the sides and roll up to the top. Set aside until you finish all the eggrolls. Then fry in 2 inches of oil or lard, until pretty brown. Enjoy plain or with the sauce in my photo which is sweet and spicy hot. (Walmart).

You could make a lot more than 8 if you just add more coleslaw at the beginning. Then fry in oil and drain on paper towels. You could fry up a bunch and freezer bag them, but they are so hard to resist. Thanks for the visit today and feel free to stop back by as I post on Thursday-Saturday and Tuesday.

These were so easy to make and I was scared to make them for so many years! I do not know why I stayed away from this recipe, but from now on, I now know that it takes minutes to make and this will be one of my favorites. I will keep messing around with the sauces and spices until I get it just right. I am thinking of getting some, Chinese 5 spice and add a very small amount to my next batch! Oh, if you have leftover egg-rolls just put them in a freezer bag and put them back in the refrigerator.

Thanks again from Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

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Homemade

Real Coconut Extract

This coconut extract has taken me three months to make. But, it was well worth the time spent.

This is an update on the coconut extract that I made last November 2020. It smells so awesome and I can hardly wait to make a coconut pie with some of this.

So, if you go back to the November category on my site, here. You should see the recipe that I used. It involved, me and a hammer and a fresh coconut that opened just long enough to grab the side of my hand and then close back up. Ouch!!! That hurt!

A lot of sites do not want you to use alcohol in your recipes but for extracts, you have to. I used a quart jar and put the peeled and shredded coconut into the jar and topped it up to one-inch headspace with vodka and let it sit under my sink for three months time.

I did shake the jar when I thought of it. And at the three-month time-line, I strained off the liquid and bottled it up for some luscious-smelling coconut extract. This will probably last me a lifetime but if I make it again then I would use a pint jar instead of a quart jar.

For those of you who use the best extracts, I hope that you try this one out for yourself! Thanks for stopping by today and please come back to visit me again and if you like a recipe then feel free to share it with good people. Thanks again. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

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Frugal

Made up some sweet-smelling laundry soap today.

This homemade soap has the sweetest smell to me. It was time to make up a new batch as I was almost out of laundry soap. This soap mixture is also kind to the elements, besides cleaning your laundry.

Hello all! I thought that I would share my soap recipe with you this evening. It is not a food recipe so I don’t know how many people that I can share it with! But, I have been using and making this powdered laundry soap up for many many years now and I just love it.

I have a lot of allergy problems with a lot of scents so I began making and using this soap, a long time ago. Did I forget to mention that it is a huge money saver and gentle on fabrics but tough on grease. It is also better for our water-ways and the earth.

No, I am not a tree hugger, but on the other hand, I just will not use a dishwasher! You just can’t pay me enough to use one. I never have had one. As I do feel it wastes so much water and nature is so beautiful to me.

Ok, now on to the recipe. This recipe smells and looks close to Dreft. The baby washing powder from days gone by. That is the sweetness of the smell. I do add 1/5th of a capful of the Purex Scent Crystals to 2 TBSP of my washing powder soap.

This is for a large load or a regular-sized load of laundry, either one. Just toss it in the front loader and load up your laundry. I use nothing else, not even in the dryer.

You will need to spend a little to start out with for your supplies to make this but then you can make up more batches as you need them and just keep them in a coffee-mate can as mine is, or a covered container. And for every load, you just use 2 TBSP of this washing powder. It does not get all sudsy as it does not contain that chemical that does that. But it cleans your clothes so that you almost want to eat them.

Box of 20 Mule Team Borax

Box of Arm And Hammer Washing Powders

Get big boxes as you will use 4 cups of each.

1 Bar Of Zote. I use the pink color as I love the sweet smell.

In a large bowl, put 4 cups of each of the washing powders.

Use a box cheese grater and grate the bar of Zote into large cheese-like curls. Now put these into the large bowl and combine well.

I have a little food processor that I loaded up with this mixture and I shredded up many batches until I had emptied that large bowl.

This will last me for 9 months to a year as there is only me to wash for. I hope that you try this and share my blog with others. Thank you for your visit. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

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Fruit Homemade

Crockpot Applesauce

Good morning to everyone. Yesterday, changed from a foggy morning (like this morning) to an 80 degree sun shiny day. I expect that today will be the same. I did notice that while on the back patio, having me cup of coffee and watching the birds fly over, that ants are building up their nest on my paving stones. So that means that a gully washer is coming. Which is heavy rain. It’s funny, what the insects will tell you.

Like some of the first insects to arrive will let you know that spring is on the way. The ladybugs along with the bumble bees and butterflies will tell you that. Also if you garden, the bumble bees seem to come out at 10:00. I used to have a garden full of trellised green beans and if I was late picking them, then I had to say “move over Mr. bumble bee” and I will be gone quickly.

Enough about the stories you will find in nature, throughout your life. If you would only look for them.

Today is the day for the homemade applesauce recipe. As I am only one, this made enough for myself, so you will find that the taste can not be beat but the amount that you get out of two bags of apples is what you see in my photo.

Two bags of McIntosh apples or Winesap apples. Any apples will do, but these are my favorites as my Daddy was a produce man, and I know my fruits and veggies, well.

I used a large apple corer/slicer and cored the apples into slices. Then I poured 5 TBSP of lemon juice into each of 2 large bowls. You save the scraps if you want to make candy apple preserves or jellies. So then I peel all the apple slices and save the peels and cores in one bowl and apple slices in the other bowl.

Turn on a large crock pot and pot the apple slices in it. Add 3/4 cup of water and cook on high for 2 or 3 hours, while stirring and checking on, every 30 minutes. This is all that I do. I do not need to add any sugar as they are already sweet and tart for some of the very best natural apple sauce.

As for the peels and cores and lemon juice, put them in a freezer bag to keep and I will give you the recipe for candy apple preserves very soon. It will make 1 1/2 to 2 jars of goodness.

Thank you for visiting today. Please browse and share with your friends and come back soon if you wish. I post on Sat-Tue and Thursday. Thank you from Connie B.

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Homemade Remedies

Elderberry Syrup

This is an old recipe called elderberry syrup that some people take as an immune booster to boost your immune system from viral and bacterial infections I am not a Dr. or any healthcare personell in any way. I just take this for myself.
Elderberry syrup could be an immune booster for viral and bacterial infection. Not to mention also sinus infections. It is an old recipe from many tears before. It has cloves and ginger with honey in it, So it’s not too bad of a taste. I am not a Dr. of any kind. I just use this on myself. #ElderberrySyrup

Good day to everyone and I hope that your household is doing well. I am always praying for you all, each and every one.

I am not a Doctor of any kind. I just know what works for me and this syrup recipe works for me. If you go into the Drug Stores and find Sambuco, then you will be looking at this on the shelf for quite a hefty little price. So I make my own and have for quite a while now. And I will share my syrup recipe with you.

I find it is good for viral and bacterial infections along with sinus infections, but mainly for an immune booster, it is my go-to but know that I am not in the medical field in any kind of way, so make up your own mind and study on this if you wish to.

Elderberry Syrup Recipe

On Etsy or Amazon is where I found my dried elderberries. You will need 1 cup of them.

Ginger Root in the grocery store. Buy a small piece like as big as your thumb as you only need a TBSP that is peeled and minced or finely chopped.

4 whole clove sticks and 1 tsp. of cinnamon or 1 stick.

3 cups of water and 1 cup of honey.

Put everything in a medium pot except for the honey.

Bring tp a boil and turn down to simmer for 45 minutes until the liquid is reduced by half.

Let cool down and strain the liquid through a strainer to remove clove sticks. Now add in the cup of honey and stir it up.

You are done now. This will keep in a glass jar in the refrigerator for 2 months. But I saved mine from last year by freezing it in ice cube trays and popping out and putting it in a freezer bag and freezing. Or almost freezing as the cloves keep it in a slushy form. I take out a small amount and keep it in my refrigerator.

The old recipe that I found last year said 1 TBSP for adults. But I take 2 TBSP. when I feel the least bit off. Just once and then I seem to feel better.

Thank you for visiting me and I hope you take a look at my recipe monthly archives while you are here, if you wish to. Please do come back as I post on Tue-Thur and Saturday. You are welcome to share with your friends and family and I hope that you will give them a link back to me. https://www.wisdomforpennies.com is my link.

Old and new elderberry syrup.
Elderberry Syrup and 4 gallons of Kombucha that ready to bottle up with fruit, tomorrow.
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Homemade

Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

This is the finished results from October 8th, 2020. It will be in the monthly archives. It tastes really good, compared to store-bought!
Here go I again, as I want to fill up a gallon jug with apple cider vinegar. I think it will take about 3 times of doing this and this is the second time.
As I start patiently waiting for a month to go by. My apple cider vinegar sits under its homemade covering, waiting to be stirred patiently, every other day, So it stays within my site so it is not forgotten.

Oh, by the way, those lemons are waiting to become lemon drop jelly on this beautiful and cloudy North Florida day! I will post that one of these days. So please check out my monthly, October archives at the very bottom of my page for the apple cider vinegar recipe, if you are interested.

Thank you for visiting me for a while today and do, please share this blog and come back again as I post on all Sat-Tue and Thursdays. If you have the time, while you are already here, stay a while and read some more. Again thanks for stopping by.

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Lotion Recipe

Hello everyone. I hope this day finds you fine and dandy and not down and out. I thought that for this post, maybe I could make you smile, by giving you my home-made lotion recipe. Hopefully you will try this one. I do believe that it is one of my favorite things that I have made.

The picture does not do it justice as it is a white creamy and oh so silky and smooth lotion. This has the thickness of face-cream. And it makes your skin silky smooth.

If you wanted it to be a thinner lotion, then you can leave out 1 TBSP of wax pellets. Here are the ingredients that you will need, but first you will need to collect or order all the ingredients! Starting with your preservative called Germaben 11.

2 TBSP of wax pellets My 12 oz bag will last forever

1 TBSP Coconut oil 5 TBSP Jojoba Oil + 1 tsp

2 TBSP Olive Oil

This is the oil mixture part that goes into the top of a double boiler or just put a metal bowl on top of a little pot of boiling water.

Now for the second double boiler that you will also be using at the same time as the oil mixture. This will be the water mixture part of the equation.

1/2 c of distilled water 1 TBSP Aloe Gel I get mine right from the plant the day before as you cut off a piece and skin 1 side, then let all the yellow ooze out. (The yellow is not good so throw yellow away.) Then just use a spoon and scoop the clear aloe gel into a small container and refridgerate until needed. Last for a week.

1/4 tsp. Borax 20 Mule Team Borax Washing Powder ( at Walmart).

And at the last, you will need 4 drops of the preservative Germaben.This mixture fills two 4oz face cream jars and each one gets 4 drops of the preservative stirred in when the cream is cooled off.

Ok so you now have the 2 small pots going with a dry metal bowl on top of each pot. You have the oil mixture in one and the water mixture in the other. This will only take a very short time like a few minutes! As they are only heated until dissolved while using a whisk on each one.

Into the water mixture add in 3 vitamin E oil tablets by sticking a pin into each to squeeze out the oil.

So have an immersion blender plugged up and ready to go!

Let both of your mixes cool for 10 minutes!

Now be blending the water mixture with the blender as you slowly dribble the oil mixture into the water mixture. You MUST pour the oil into the water, not the other way around!

Now you will see your beautiful results. Fill your 4 oz containers and then add 4 drops of Germaben 11 so your lotion will be safe and not grow mold. You have to have a good preservative so do not try this without it!

I have spent a long time studying and researching this lotion mixture, this year. I wanted to make sure that I did it right and that it was done safely for myself. So if you choose to research this, you can begin by typing in pharmacy emulsion into Google search and begin your studies also. It is a long journey but for me, it was worth it, as I like to know what is in things and how to make it! And I love being frugal and not having to buy it in the stores.

All these things take time as a lot of my recipes do also. But I love for it to be the best of all things that I get to create.

Thank you for visiting my blog and please do look around while you are here. And I hope that you will share my little blog with many others, so that it can grow. Please do come back again as I post on Tue and Saturdays. I treasure this recipe and I hope you will also!

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Homemade October 2020

Making Apple Cider Vinegar

At the half-time of the 4 week journey.

Hello everyone on this North Florida cloudy day. Even a cloudy day can become a good day, if you would only let it be! I try to make the most out of every passing day as if it were a natural wonder, which it is.

You never quite know where each day will take you, if you only let it. I hope that you will look for joy and awesome wonder in each of your days as I do care about each and everyone of you.

We are all God,s children and let us enjoy what he gives to us daily. I for one am always in wonder, what will it be this day or the next day or even forward ahead in the days we have. We may only have this day so let us make it an enjoyable day, where-ever we may be on our journey!

Ok, now I will let you know what I am in the middle of now, as I am always on a creating journey of many different things that I am curious about knowing how, what, why do you do that! Life is a journey for me, you see and I intend to not let it pass me by!

I am in the middle phase of making home-made apple cider vinegar in a big old crock. And it is looking really good as it is fermenting away, lots of bubbles. It does take a month so you need to keep this in sight somewhere cool and dark (no sun-light).

As I was cutting up apples to can in those awesome mason jars, I kept all the scraps from the apples. The apple cores and peelings and seeds and stems, all of it. I had washed the apples very well back at the start of my canning journey.

I put all the scraps into a big crock that I use to ferment things in. AKA the best sour-kraut that you will ever eat, which one of these days I will post about.

After you have put the apple scraps into the crock(or even a big jar). Add in water to with-in 3 inches from the top. As the liquid may rise and spill if too full. Pour in 3/4 c of molasses and use a wooden spoon (always) and stir in well. I used a saucer to weigh the apple products down and covered the crock with a clean dish towel. Then I had a huge rubber-band that held the towel in place so it could breathe as it bubbled away for the month of waiting.

It is recommended to stir it a little, about every three days with a wooden spoon. When mine is finished, then I will post a photo for you!

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