HIGH LONESOME RANCH, INC
Birch River, West Virginia 26610
Jim & Marcy Lilly hlrinc@yahoo.com
HIGH LONESOME RANCH, INC
Birch River, West Virginia 26610
Jim & Marcy Lilly
hlrinc@yahoo.com
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Cooking healthy, frugal meals is not as difficult as people think. Here are some recipes to get you started. If anyone has any economical recipes, e-mail me and we'll add them.
I am writing a book on our experiences the first year living here. The book also includes how we built our block house without electricity. If you are interested in the book, email me and I will put you on the waiting list. I am also writing a book on how to feed your family for less. This includes recipes for a month, the monthly grocery list is included along with the price of each meal.
AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD STARTER-Recipe #2 ~ ANGEL BISCUITS ~ BAKED BEANS ~ BANANA BREAD ~ BEAN RECIPES ~ CHICKEN RECIPES ~ CROCKPOT CHICKEN ~ CHEESE CARDAMOM TWIST ~ COOKIES ~ GRANOLA ~ SALT RISING BREAD - Recipe#2 ~ MARIANN'S YANKEE CORNBREAD ~ PORK 'N BEAN CAKE ~ FRIED GREEN TOMATOES ~ JELLY: Red Grapefruit,CornCob, Mt.Dew ~ CANNING RECIPES ~ ABOUT CHOCOLATE ~ EMU RECIPES ~ Favorite Recipe Links
Beginners Easy Bread
5 1/2 - 6 1/2 cups flour 1/4 cup softened butter
2 tbls. (or 2 packages) yeast 2 1/4 cups hot tap water
2 tbls sugar
1 tbls. salt
Combine 2 cups flour,
un-dissolved yeast, sugar and salt into a large mixing bowl. Stir well to blend. Add butter and hot water. (To soften butter, I put it in the hot tap water)
Beat with a mixer on medium for 2 minutes. Scrape bowl occasionally. Add 1 more cup of flour. Beat on high for 1 minute until smooth and elastic. Gradually stir in just enough of the remaining flour with a wooden spoon to make a soft dough which leaves the sides of bowl. Turn out onto floured board.
Flour your hands and Knead 5 - 10 minutes (I usually don't do it this long) until dough is smooth and elastic and doesn't stick all over your hands. Cover with plastic wrap and a towel and let rest for 20 minutes. (I only do this if I have the 20 minutes to wait)
Punch down and divide the loaf into 2 loaves if you want 2 loaves. I use a glass 2 qt.
casserole dish and bake my bread in this. Otherwise, divide into 2 loaves. Roll it out with a rolling pin, then starting with the narrow end, roll up into a jelly roll and tuck in the ends. Put this into a greased bread pan (measuring 81/2 x 41/2 x21/2).Brush lightly with butter (I skip this). Cover loosely with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate 2 - 24 hours. When ready to bake, Uncover, let stand for 10 minutes while preheating oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 30 - 40 minutes or until it sounds hollow when you rap your knuckles on the top.
If you want the bread
NOW!
Skip the
refrigerator step. Just let the dough rise, for a few minutes and pop it into the oven.
Bake in coffee cans for an unusual shape - makes a great Christmas gift.
5 1/2 - 6 1/2 flour 2 Tbls yeast (2 packages) 2 Tbls sugar 1 tbls salt 1/2 tsp ground cardamom 1/4 cup softened butter 2 1/4 cups hot tap water 1 cup grated sharp cheese
Spoon flour into measuring cup and level off. Pour onto wax paper. Combine 2 cups flour, undissolved yeast, sugar, salt and cardamom in large bowl. Stir well to blend. Add butter. then add hot tap water.
Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for 2 minutes. Scrape bowl occasionally. Add 1 cup more of flour. Beat at high speed for 1 minute, or until thick and elastic. Stir in cheese with a wooden spoon. Then gradually stir in enough flour to make a soft dough which leaves the sides of the bowl. Knead 5 - 10 minutes or until dough is smooth and elastic. Cover with plastic wrap, then a towel and let rest 20 minutes. Punch down. Divide dough into thirds.
Shape each third into a ball. Place in 3 greased 1 pound coffee cans. Brush lightly with oil. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 24 hours. Remove from refrigerator and let stand for 10 minutes. You can then brush loves with an egg yolk blended with 1 Tbls. water and sprinkle loaves with sesame seeds if desired.
Bake at 400 degrees for about 35 minutes, or until done. Cover the bread with foil last 10 - 15 minutes. if the crust seems to be getting too brown. Remove from cans immediately and cool on rack.
MARIANN'S YANKEE CORNBREAD (Top)
1 3/4 cups flour 3/4 cup yellow cornmeal (home-ground is best) 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp. salt 4 tsp. baking powder 2 eggs 1 cup milk
Mix the dry ingredients, then add the 2 eggs and milk. Mix well. Pour into a greased iron skillet and bake at 350 degrees until golden (or a toothpick comes out dry.)
1 tbls yeast 5 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp. baking soda 3 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 3 tbls. sugar 3/4 cup shortening 2 1/2 cups buttermilk.
Heat the buttermilk and add the shortening to dissolve. Set aside. In a mixer, put in 3 cups of flour and all the dry ingredients. Add the heated milk. Using a dough hook, knead the dough until the dough pulls away from the sides of the mixer. Adding flour as needed. Roll out dough and cut with a cookie cutter. or place in a cast iron biscuit pan. You can mix this all by hand if you don't have a mixer, and knead it until well mixed. Do not over knead or it can become tough. bake in a 350 oven until golden
Angel biscuits are light and fluffy. They can be topped with chicken and gravy, or with sweets like grapefruit jelly, or molasses spread.
Amish Friendship Bread Starter
You'll Need:
Glass Bowl, Wooden spoons - DO NOT USE ANY METAL UTENSILS.
1 package active dry yeast 2 1/2 cups warm water
2 cups sifted flour 1 tablespoon sugar
Dissolve yeast in 1 cup of the warm water. Stir in
remaining warm water, flour and sugar, beat until smooth. Place in a glass bowl
on the countertop, do not put in refrigerator. Cover with clean dishcloth. The
starter will ferment for 10 days before it is ready to give away or use for
bread.
10 DAYS INSTRUCTIONS:
DAY 1 Begin or receive starter
DAY 2 STIR
DAY 3 STIR
DAY 4 STIR
DAY 5 ADD 1 CUP SUGAR, 1 CUP FLOUR, 1 CUP MILK.
DAY 6 STIR
DAY 7 STIR
DAY 8 DO NOTHING
DAY 9 DO NOTHING
DAY 10 ADD 1 CUP SUGAR, 1 CUP FLOUR, 1 CUP MILK
Put 1 cup of starter in each of three containers, give to friends and keep one
for yourself to start again. This will begin their DAY 1. You can give them away
in ziplock bags, but make sure you tell your friends to "burp" the bag about
twice daily.
Friendship Bread:
1 cup starter 2/3 cup vegetable oil 3 eggs 1
teaspoon vanilla 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 1/4 teaspoon baking
powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt
Add all ingredients to starter in order listed and mix by hand till combined. Do
not use electric mixer. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and sugar two
9 x 5 inch loaf pans. Transfer the batter to the pans. Bake for 40-50 minutes
and remove from the oven. Allow the bread to cool for 10 minutes, then tip out
onto a rack
to finish cooling completely.
Friendship Bread #2
1 cup starter 3 eggs 2/3 cup vegetable oil 2
cups unbleached flour 1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt
TOPPING:
1/3 cup melted butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large mixer bowl, beat together the starter,
eggs, and vegetable oil; add the rest of the ingredients and mix. Set aside.
Combine the topping ingredients in a small mixing bowl.
Put half of the batter in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan. Sprinkle with half the
topping. Cover with the remaining batter, sprinkle on the rest of the topping
and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
3 tsp cornmeal 1
tsp flour 1/8 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup scalded milk.
Pour milk onto dry ingredients and stir.
Keep warm overnight until foamy.
After starter has foamed and has a rotten cheese smell, in a medium sized bowl,
add 2 cups of warm water to mixture, then enough flour (about 1 ½ cup) to make
like a thin pancake batter. Stir and let rise again until becomes foamy. This
usually takes about 2 hours.
Next, add one cup of warm water for each loaf of bread you want to make, up to 6
loaves (e.g. six cups of water makes six loaves of bread). Add enough flour (20
cups for 6 loaves, or about one 5 pound bag of flour + 1/3 bag). Form into
loaves; grease tops of loaves. Let rise in greased pans for several hours, maybe
2-6 hours.
Bake at 300F for 30 to 45 minutes, or until loaves sound hollow when tapped.
(If you want to save some of the batter for the next batch, take one cup of
batter out of mixture after you have added the 2 cups of warm water and flour to
make a thin pancake batter, and after it has risen the second time.)
SALT
RISING BREAD Recipe #2
At night, mix 1 and 3/4 cups of flour with 1/4 cup of cornmeal. Stir this
mixture into 2 cups of lukewarm water. When well mixed, pour into a pitcher or
tall container. Keep in a warm place overnight.
In the morning, if the rising has "worked," (8-10 hours later), add:
One quart of scalded milk that has been cooled to lukewarm, 2 teaspoons of salt,
2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of shortening, and add enough flour (about
12-14 cups) to make a soft dough that can be easily handled.
Cover and let rise in a bowl, making sure to keep dough at even temperature.
When dough is light, knead down well and put into pans. Let rise until twice in
size. (1 ½ to 2 hours).
Bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes. Makes four very large and beautiful loaves of
bread.
1 cup butter ~ 4 cups sugar ~ 4 eggs ~ 2 teaspoons salt ~ 2 teaspoons baking soda ~ 8 cups all purpose flour. 12 ripe bananas ~ 2 cups finely chopped nuts
Cream the butter, sugar and eggs. Sift together the salt, baking soda, and flour, then in a separate bowl mash the bananas. Add the bananas to the creamed mixture and stir thoroughly. Mix in the flour and the finely chopped nuts. Pour the mixture into 4 well greased bread pans and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
6 Days of Economical Recipes (TOP)
Southern Pinto Beans: A hearty recipe which makes 3 meals!
Soak 1 pound of pinto beans overnight in water (or all day). Discard water (it is said that reduces the gas) and add clean water to cover the beans. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 45 minutes. take 1 teaspoon of baking soda and add to the beans. The baking soda will fizz up. Continue to simmer for 40 minutes. When the skins of 2 beans held in a spoon crack as you blow on them, they are done. Discard water, and cover the beans with fresh water. Return to stove to simmer, and add a hambone, or dried beef soup mix. Simmer for another 30 minutes. The beans are ready to be used in a few ways:
DAY 1.
Beans
For a southern bean meal, bake up some cornbread, chop up onions, and place in a bowl then cover with beans. (As a displaced Northerner, I eat the beans in a bowl and have my cornbread on the side).
DAY 2.
Tacos
The next day, use the some of the beans to make a re-fried taco mix. Cook hamburger, then add beans and mash them together, adding seasonings to your taste (chili powder, salt ,pepper) - place in taco shells and cover with lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, salsa, sour cream, etc.
DAY 3.
Soup
Now there should be very little beans left, but a lot of "soup". Take the ham off of the bone and add to the soup. Give the dog the bone. Cut up a kielbasa, or polish sausage and add it to your soup. Add sliced potatoes and carrots , and the left-over onions from your tacos. and simmer until tender. Add extra water to the soup if you need to. Top with cheese and sour cream if you want. Enjoy this hearty soup with your freshly baked bread or cornbread. Wonderful on a cold, snow day!
My Grandmother's Recipe: If you're a Northerner, you can use the basic recipe for beans, pour off the water and use it in bean soup later. Add about 1/4 cup molasses. To this add a touch of ketchup and a touch of mustard. Then you bake it for about 10 minutes, or until bubbly. This is similar to a Boston Baked Bean recipe!
Wal-Mart sells 10 pounds of chicken legs for $3.70 a bag. This can make 2 - 3 meals depending on your family and how much those teenagers can eat!
Day 4:Baked
Lemon Chicken:
Place chicken in baking pan, drizzle with lemon and sprinkle paprika over. Bake until skin is crispy and the juices run clean. Add a salad, homemade bread and/or rice.
Day 5: Chicken and
dumplings:
Simmer chicken in water until done. Remove chicken from soup and de-bone. Put the meat back into the soup. In a mixing bowl combine 2 cups flour, 2 tsps baking powder, 1/3 cup shortening until it resembles little pills. Then add enough milk to make the dough stiff. Drop by the spoonfuls onto soup. Simmer with the cover on for 30 min.
OR
Chicken and Biscuits:
Using juices from the baked chicken, make a gravy: Take about 2 tbs. of flour and 2 cups of milk. Mix in a blender until smooth. Heat the left over drippings from the baked chicken until hot. Pour in the milk mixture and stir until thickened and bubbly. Add left-over chopped chicken, add vegetables such as green beans, corn, peas, carrots. Make Angel Biscuits. Pour chicken mixture over hot biscuits.
Day 6: Chicken Alfredo:
Dredge any left-over chicken in flour and quickly fry in a frying pan with canola oil. Set aside. Stir fry some zucchini, yellow squash or any favorite vegetable until tender. Cook fettuccini, spaghetti, or any pasta - Add an Alfredo Sauce to pasta, top with chicken and vegetables. Serve.
Hello
Just found and love your website. We have a family of 6 and home school so
we know what it's like to live frugally. We have a favorite
Crockpot Chicken
recipe that is very easy and helps us stay within our budget. I can feed our
family and still have leftovers for a couple of lunch meals.
Your choice of chicken determines the total cost of
this meal.
Put frozen chicken in crock pot.
Cover with Hunts traditional spaghetti sauce (or your homemade canned sauce
....YUM)
Add only one cup of water
Salt to taste (we don't add any extra)
Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours (depends again on the cut of chicken you
choose...with or without bone etc...)
We eat this with broccoli and whole wheat macaroni noodles.
It costs me about $7.00 to feed my crew
Shalom
Kim and Shawn Watts
Miscellaneous Recipes:
5 cups quick oats 3/4 c. brown sugar 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup wheat germ (optional) 1/2 cup dry milk 3/4 tsp cinnamon 1/2 cup nuts/raisins etc. (optional) 1/3 cup honey or molasses (do not use the store brand molasses - be sure to get homemade -)
Mix the brown sugar, oil and honey or molasses in a saucepan. Heat until the sugar is dissolved. Combine the other ingredients in a large cake pan or roaster. Pour sugar mixture over dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes stirring often. Cool in the pan. Store in an airtight container
Molasses - The molasses (unsulphered) from grocery stores is fine in baking, but for granola or as a topping for biscuits the best molasses to get is the cane molasses.
1/2 cup cane molasses mixed with a tsp. of butter. This makes a wonderful spread to top biscuits.
Taken from ALL RECIPES Lorrie Sterling
Grease and flour 5 16oz. cans to bake the cake in! Or you can use 2 8X4 loaf pans - but it is not as much fun!
2 cups white sugar 1 cup vegetable oil 3 eggs 1 15oz can baked beans with pork
2 cups flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup raisins (optional) 1 tsp. vanilla extract
In large bowl mix: sugar, oil, eggs, and beans until smooth. In separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients, then add to bean mixture, stirring until just combined. Stir in raisins and vanilla. Pour into the containers you are using to bake it in - If using the cans fill 2/3 full. Place cans or pans on a baking sheet and bake at 325 for about 45 -50 minutes. Check with a toothpick. Cool completely and take out of cans.
(Tastes like a
pumpkin bread.)
This is my
husband's favorite. Before I moved to West Virginia, I had never heard of these
Southern dishes!
1 cup yellow corn meal
3/4 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
black pepper to taste
5 green tomatoes, sliced
2 to 3 tablespoons bacon drippings or vegetable shortening
Combine cornmeal, flour, and seasonings; coat both sides of the tomato
slices with the mixture. In a large cast iron skillet, heat drippings or
shortening over medium heat and fry tomatoes in a single layer. Brown each side
lightly. Keep warm in the oven on a cookie sheet, but watch that they don't
burn!
4 servings
Little-Known
Chocolate Tidbits...
If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too
slowly.
Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all
count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
Problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot
car.
Solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off
your appetite and you'll eat less.
A nice box of chocolates provides your total daily intake of calories
in
one place. Isn't that handy?
If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge.
Calories are afraid of heights and they will jump out of the chocolate
to
protect themselves.
Equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate is a balanced diet.
The preservatives in chocolate make you look younger.
Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous? Because no
one
wants to quit.
Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That
way, at least you'll get one thing done!
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Recipes
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