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Hey Mike,

I can help with the dumplings dude, if you would enlarge your print and stop the eye-straining highlighting, I will share it with you.

First get your stock going and bring it to a boil add your meat let boil till the meat is tender. Dip out two cups of the broth, set aside. Then grab 2 cups of flour one egg and combine in mixing bowl. Fork the egg into the flour (Martha White Self-Rising is all I ever use for flour) then grab the broth you sat aside and slowly add it to the flour while stirring, the broth needs to be warm to hot so the flavor permeates the dumplings. Add broth till flour and egg is almost the consistency of biscuit dough, flour your table or counter top scoop dough out bowl, and knead as you sprinkle flour on top till the dough no longer sticks to your hands. Rool dough out to 1/8-1/4" thickness, depends on whether you like thin or thick dumplings. Let air dry till flour is almost crisp, cut out your dumplings, bring your stock pot to boiling and drop them in, reduce to simmer, make up a batch of cornbread and when the cornbread comes out of the oven you are ready for some good eating.

Jim

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Thank you all for your recipes. Shirley has about four cookbooks and not one of them had a recipe for raisin bread. As for the Kelp powder, although kelp is very beneficial if I put it in anything and Shirley found out, she would not eat it. I might try it sometime when she's not looking however. If we had a bigger kitchen with more counter-top space, I would be doing a lot more baking then I do now. For pies I basically have to buy frozen pie shells because I don't have the room to roll out the dough. I have a recipe for pumpkin bread that requires four eggs, so if I can get by with one egg instead that will be a big help. I used to make soups with dumplings, but it has been so long that I have forgotten how to make the dumplings. Awhile back when we were talking about the stock pots, I began making a small one. Each night after the evening meal I would put the left over veges in one and the meat in the other. When I combined them together I realized that I needed a tomotoe base, but had run out of tomatoes. I remember that I had a jar of tomato bullion. It was not in cubes like chicken or beef, but rather in a loose powder form. Shirley reluctantly tried some. She had a second bowl. Back to the stock pot.
GOD BLESS YOU
~Mike~

Yes Myrna, I agree borax is good for a lot of things and I have used it in the past but all my well equipment is outside on a concrete pad beside my garage so I'm not sure if borax would work there. Since I've already bought this container of granules, I'll try it first but I'm still going to try Helen's suggestion about painting with the vegetable oil. Hopefully something will work. This makes twice this has happened but the first time the plumber only had to clean the ants out of the switch but this time they had caused it to burn out. He showed me were it was burned out at and it was plain to see he was telling me the truth. He showed it to me before he installed the new one and told me what was wrong. I had no other choice but buy a new switch.

I was really surprised when I started looking for a house to buy that there are so many areas that don't have utility water. Eveyone in this section where I live, are on a well. I don't drink it but I do take a bath and shampoo my hair in it and do laundry with it. It may be alright to drink but I'll just buy bottled water to drink and cook with.

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Hi Evelyn,

Sorry too hear about the ants. I had the big ants a few years ago coming into the house. I did a search and what I found has worked for me, I haven't had ant since. Take borax and make a fine line around the base of the pipe, see if that works. Borax is good for so many things. Ants, fleas, spiders, and other bugs.

Myrna

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Mike you'll have to share your recipe for pumpkin bread. Pumpkin is another food that has a lot of good things in it.

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Thank you all for your recipes. Shirley has about four cookbooks and not one of them had a recipe for raisin bread. As for the Kelp powder, although kelp is very beneficial if I put it in anything and Shirley found out, she would not eat it. I might try it sometime when she's not looking however. If we had a bigger kitchen with more counter-top space, I would be doing a lot more baking then I do now. For pies I basically have to buy frozen pie shells because I don't have the room to roll out the dough. I have a recipe for pumpkin bread that requires four eggs, so if I can get by with one egg instead that will be a big help. I used to make soups with dumplings, but it has been so long that I have forgotten how to make the dumplings. Awhile back when we were talking about the stock pots, I began making a small one. Each night after the evening meal I would put the left over veges in one and the meat in the other. When I combined them together I realized that I needed a tomotoe base, but had run out of tomatoes. I remember that I had a jar of tomato bullion. It was not in cubes like chicken or beef, but rather in a loose powder form. Shirley reluctantly tried some. She had a second bowl. Back to the stock pot.
GOD BLESS YOU
~Mike~

Thanks, I've made a copy. :)

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Mike you'll have to share your recipe for pumpkin bread. Pumpkin is another food that has a lot of good things in it.

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Thank you all for your recipes. Shirley has about four cookbooks and not one of them had a recipe for raisin bread. As for the Kelp powder, although kelp is very beneficial if I put it in anything and Shirley found out, she would not eat it. I might try it sometime when she's not looking however. If we had a bigger kitchen with more counter-top space, I would be doing a lot more baking then I do now. For pies I basically have to buy frozen pie shells because I don't have the room to roll out the dough. I have a recipe for pumpkin bread that requires four eggs, so if I can get by with one egg instead that will be a big help. I used to make soups with dumplings, but it has been so long that I have forgotten how to make the dumplings. Awhile back when we were talking about the stock pots, I began making a small one. Each night after the evening meal I would put the left over veges in one and the meat in the other. When I combined them together I realized that I needed a tomotoe base, but had run out of tomatoes. I remember that I had a jar of tomato bullion. It was not in cubes like chicken or beef, but rather in a loose powder form. Shirley reluctantly tried some. She had a second bowl. Back to the stock pot.
GOD BLESS YOU
~Mike~

Hi Evelyn,
Here is the recipe for Nutty Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients

1 1/3 cups sugar
3/4 cup(1 1/2 sticks) Butter, at room temperature
4 eggs
1 can (15 ounces) unseasoned pumkin puree
3/4 cups of milk
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1 tablespoon pumkin-pie spice
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Makes two large or 6 small loaves
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat two 4 1/4-x8 3/4- inch loaf pans or six 5 3/4-x3 1/2-inch loaf pans with cooking spray.
2. Cream sugar and butter until smooth. Add eggs; beat until light and fluffy. Add pumpkin puree and milk. Blend in Vanilla extract.
3. Combine flour, pecans,pumpkin-pie spice,baking powder,, salt and baking soda. Add flour mixture to pumkin mixture. Stir just until flour is moistened.
4. Divide batter between prepared pans, smoothing tops. Bake large loaves for 55-60 minutes, or smaller loaves for 45 minutes. Cool 5 minutes in pans. Turn onto wire rack; cool completely.

Mix 'n' Match
Substitute chocolate chips for the chopped pecans to make a delicious chocolate chip pumpkin bread.

GOD BLESS YOU
~Mike~

I got this in a email from a good friend and you may have seen it before, but it's still something that bears repeating.