Raving Success

Hello one & all...the garage sale went well. Sold $50 worth of excess from the house and my daughter made nearly $65 on breads and jams. Spent Saturday afternoon into evening baking up a storm...zucchini-apple bread, honey wheat bread, English muffin bread, and sour-cream apple squares. Couldn't believe how much we sold! That money will certainly help out on her mystery weekend...the Lord always provides away.
Spending "nap-times" this week starting to prepare the house and garden for winter. Already picked the remainder of the pathetic green peppers i grew this year. Still have some cherry tomatoes and hot peppers out there. Lettuce will be left until the first hard frost that will wipe it out. Carrots can stay until the hubby is ready to till it under. Was hit by the blight late and, thankfully, only lost a portion of my tomatoes...so many people lost their whole crop. Have to burn all the plants from the tomatoes and the peppers to try and kill off any blight spores so they don't reinfect next year. Need to clean the internal window sills and pull down storms, vacuum out the baseboard heating to remove dust and dog hair that has built up over the summer. Before we know it there will be snow in the air...I thought of Halloween a few years back when there was a few inches of snow on the ground...that's only 5 weeks away!
Cooler weather always kicks me into cooking mode and I thought you might like to try this easy no-knead bread that seemed to cause a stir at the "bake-sale."

English Muffin Bread
6 cups flour
2 TBSP (or 2 packages)
2 tsp salt
1 TBSP sugar
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 cups milk
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup cornmeal (to coat the pans)

Combine 3 cups flour, yeast, salt, sugar and soda. Heat milk and water till very warm. Add dry ingredients and beat well. Stir in the rest of the flour to make as tiff batter. Grease and sprinkle loaf pans with cornmeal. Spoon batter evenly into pans. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 45 minutes. Bake at 400 for 25 minutes. Remove from pans and cool. Makes 2 loaves.

Just like English muffins only cost about 50 cents for 2 loaves! Toast and enjoy...this will not puff up very high...will be dense just like the real thing. Blessings, Eve