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This blog will start up, hopefully on January 1, 2010.
We will be exploring, learning and perfecting talents, skills and techniques.
This blog will have myself as the main poster and my 6 daughters as the other possible posters.
I will post our reference material and were I found it. If you want to work with us, great, but please post your results (good or bad).

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

End of the Year Exploits

One thing I did during the Month of December was start a batch of Vanilla Extract. I know it is easy, but you know finding good vanilla beans you can afford isn't.
I found a source, ordered them (they got here fast). Sliced them. Put them in a pint jar (actually two, I gave one to Jen) and poured Smirnoff vodka over them. I must admit I have opened the jar to smell it a couple of times. Within days it smelled and looked right, but I am waiting until the end of January to use them. Hopefully, I won't run out of the store bought before then.

Me, Abby, Mary and Bethany

We are going to pick out a recipe that requires a pie crust.
We each will make the pie crust from scratch, possibly trying more than one recipe for a pie crust.
We will get back to you later as to what our recipe is.

Note: We have checked out many of Julia Child's cookbooks, Joy of Cooking, I have some vintage Betty Crocker cookbooks and some Professional Cooking cookbooks.

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