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Homemade

Butter

Hi there. Hope you are having a glorious day on this beautiful and rainy Saturday. As for me, I love the rainy days. Ok now on to this Saturday post for my blog.

I have a treasure of my heart that was passed down to me from a woman with the most loving heart and soul. She gave love and care to everyone she came in contact with for her entire life. She touched so many in this world and taught me how to love others also.

Anyway, the treasure that she handed down to me, is an old glass butter-churn with wooden paddles in the jar. She was my Mother-in-law and this had been passed down to her through her mom and her mom’s mom. You know, way down the line to me. I treasure this with my life!

All the generations of women in the family made butter in this churn. As I was in the family when my kids were small and all my nieces and nephews (aka all the kids). We had every one of them make butter in this churn. Now they are all grown. But this craft was passed through the generations as I adore doing.

Here she is! #butterchurn #generations #dairy

She is a Daze and probably only worth $50.00 but she has a million dollars in memories to me.

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The recipe: Heavy whipping cream.

Clean the jar.

Spin the paddle for quite a while until you have a big lump of butter appear. When finished then your pour it through a sieve(strainer) that is lined with cheese-cloth to get the buttermilk out of it. Make biscuits with this buttermilk!

Next, you continue to keep rinsing the butter in the sieve with (cold) water only, until the water runs clear. If you don’t do this washing then your butter will not keep it will go sour.

Wrap in syran wrap or put in covered bowl and keep in fridge.

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Homemade

Crock Sauerkraut

I wanted to see how this worked so I did it and I love it! It is crunchy and salty, nothing like the sour stuff in a can that has a tinny taste to me.

Sauerkraut fermenting.
A large jar of jelly is sitting on top of a large lid, acting as a weight. It worked rather well.

I used two large heads of cabbage and rinsed them well. You can shred these by many different ways, but I used a large knife. After cutting the cabbages thinly. I put them into a large bowl.

Then I added three tbsp. of kosher salt ( sea salt or canning salt) would also work. I mixed well with my hands and then I used a potato masher to bruise the cabbage by mashing down pretty hard for a while. This starts the juices flowing.

Next I put this in my crock and made my weight with the lid and jelly jar on top of it. Then I covered it with a clean dish towel and put a rubber band on it. For three days I let this sit out on my counter and mashed it down for three times each day. If the juice does not cover the top of the cabbage, then just add some water with a tbsp of salt in it and pour over the top. Just to cover it.

You would think that this would stink to high heaven, but it does not. I was amazed.

The finished product.

I used the water bath canning method with the cabbage at room temperature and the water in the canning pot also at room temperature. I processed this for 20 minutes.

If you need canning instructions, just find the water bath canning page on my blog. Thank you for visiting my blog and please do come back soon. I post on Tue-Thur-Sat.

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Homemade

Old Timey Cough Syrup

You start out with a pint mason jar and fill it half full with whiskey or vodka or maybe even brandy. Next you fill it to within one inch from the top of the jar with molasses.

Add in 5 tsp. of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Take 5 peppermint candies and crush them. You could put in a bag and whack them with a rolling-pin. Put those in the jar.

Now you start a medium pot of water boiling on the stove. Then turn it off. Then you shake-shake-shake the mason jar, with the lid on. Now just sit the jar down in the water for an hour or two and then shake it some more and it will mix up better now.

Adults take 2 tbsp. and maybe big kids a tsp. I am not a Dr. so I am not claiming that this will cure you. But as for me, I believe in the old ways/

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August 2020 On-The Cheap

Hot Nacho’s

This has always been one of my favorites. Hot nacho’s smothered in hot and gooey melted cheese with lots of jalapeno peppers.

Back in the year of 1984 when I was pregnant with my Son, I craved these things and they were cheap at the Indian Store that was in the neighborhood, so that was my wish from the store. It’s kinda funny because when my Son was a wee little one, he loved these also. The peppers and all.

Now days I keep tortilla chips and jalapenos in the house. I also keep boxed cheese in the house.

My recipe: Cut off a 1 inch thickness slice of the cheese

Put tortilla chips on a plate Have 1/4 c milk or even less nearby

Chop up jalapeno peppers first- have tortilla chips on a plate to warm in microwave.

Put cheese in a melting bowl for the microwave and add the milk by the Tablespoons only. Maybe start with 2. Stay beside the microwave as you are melting this, to keep checking to see if you need more milk or so that it will not burn the cheese. If you happen to use too much milk, then you can add a little more cheese to get it to thicken into a nice cheese sauce.

Take out of microwave and put in chips to heat for a very short while as they will catch on fire, ask me how I know. Then you stir the peppers into the cheese sauce and spoon all over the tortilla chips.

Now sit right down and enjoy these while they are hot!

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Homemade

Banana Cough Syrup

I tried this last year and it worked for me. I do not know if it will work on you? My Son tells me Mama you have to add this so I am. I am not a Dr., I am just a Mama with a heart to help people.

Ok Isaiah, I have said it!

Anyway let me get back to this remedy.

Ingredients are: Two peeled bananas 2 Tablespoons of honey

1 2/3 cup of water boiled

Put bananas in food blender and mix up. Then you stir the bananas into the boiled water and let it cool down, before you add in 2 Tablespoons of honey.

I take 2 or 3 Tablespoons daily when I have a bad cough. It does have a good taste. Now as for this mess going around in the world now, I would advise you go to the Dr. for your cough syrup needs!

I took this when I had a simple cold/flu. But what’s out in this world right now is nothing to take lightly. Love to you all!

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July 2020 Laundry Detergent

Fresh Batch

I ran out of my laundry soap that I make up from Borax and Arm and Hammer and a bar of Zote soap. So today I had to make up some more of this sweet smelling stuff. It made a large coffee mate container size that was filled up and this was the over-flow so I thought that I would share this with you.

I only use two Tablespoons of this and a quarter cap full of a clothing scent as I have allergies so badly. But these I can tolerate well and I love the fresh smell of my laundry when it is fininhed. I use these small amounts in a huge front end loader washing machine that is packed full of clothes.

You can find the instructions to make this if you go back in my posts to the laundry post. I hope you will try this and share this post with all your friends. Hugs and love from me to you.

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Beauty Frugal July 2020

Skin Tag Laser

This is a laser burner.

If you want to save yourself some money, you could research this laser pen on Google to learn about it. And then you can purchase form Ebay or Amazon.

I am not feeling up to par so today will be short.

I use this to burn off skin tags and to use on warts also. You do need to hit the direct spot to burn and not the surrounding skin. Please do not use it near your eyes! I use this on a few at a time as the healing back up is extremely itchy and it makes me want to drag my fingernails across and scratch like crazy. So do not do but a few spots at a time.

Then I wait three days and do it again if needed. I am not a Dr. but I could

not afford to give my bank card over to the Dr,s office so that they could collect from me if Medicare did not pay them fast enough so I learned to do my own.

I am skin tag free because of this little tool! If you get one and have questions about how to assemble it, you can email me at connieb@wisdomforpennies.com

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July 2020 Pest Control

Repel The Flies

This is a very interesting topic that I just came across on the internet from Julie Morgan on Facebook.

To repel flies all you have to do is fill a quart ziplock baggie half-way with water and then drop in 7 pennies The next step is to nail this bag somewhere up high on a window sill or a barn wall’ Even in a restaurant where-ever you have a fly problem. This would be great at a picnic!

This causes the flies to see a prism and they can not stand to be near it! Thanks to Julie Morgan for this tip.

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June 2020 On-The Cheap Vegetable

Dehydrating

Red potatoes with box grater.

I picked up two $1 bags of red potatoes na decided to deydrate them for dry storage as I an running out of room for my freezer storage and now my canning jar storage room. I am addicted to storing food in so many different ways like our Ancestors used to do! This just draws me closer to the old ways of preparing and storing the garden harvest as our past generations used to for survival. If you can understand that’it is just a bond that pulls me to the past ways of our families.

First you wash the red potatoes from all dirt. You may need a scrub brush if fresh from the garden.Mine were from a produce store so it was not too hard to get them cleaned up. Next you use the grater on the slicer side as you want circle cut potatoes. Slice 8 medium sized red potatoes and put ito a bowl of water that covers them.

Have a big pot of boiling water ready so that after you drain water off of potatoes’ you can drop into boiling water for 5 minutes only’ then pour into a strainer to drain and cool a little while. Now arrange as single file as you can on your dehydrator trays’ some overlapping is ok. Plugin and dry for 3 hours while rotating trays around one time. These have to be completely dry with no dampness anywhere.

Slicer side of grater.
All this from 8 medium red potatoes.

Now store these in a gallon freezer baggie. I did two times of dehydrating for 16 potatoes total to fill this bag up. When I order myself some oxygen absorbers I will put a few in each gallon baggie and then store baggie in a tote so no critters can get in to them and these will last 30 years.

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Frugal June 2020 Vegetable

Vegetables are awesome this way!

I found a bag of green beans and as usual I adore being frugal in all things, so they only cost a dollar in the mark-down bin.

I took them home and snapped off the ends and snapped them in two. Next I washed them and let them dry out so they would hold the olive oil and spices.

I put all into a large bowl and lightly poured oil over them and hand mixed together. Time for what-ever spices you like now. I chose accent-pink salt-garlic powder-onion powder and taco seasoning in the bottle.

I oiled my three pizza pans lightly and put the string bens on all three pans, Then I added more accent and taco seasonings lightly along with garlic powder also.

I baked these in the oven on 350 degrees for one hour, while turning beans along the way. They shrivel down and reduce in size after cooking for an hour, to have a crunch to some of them. Taste test and if needed add more taco seasoning as the bottle of spice is weaker than the packets of spice. Now enjoy and try not to eat them all at once as they are really awesome this way.

This is my recipe that I created to share with you so keep it or keep coming back to check out my web-page to always have it stored for you. Thank you for viewing my web-site!

Prepping the string-beans.
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