The book above is going to be given away in a give away on MountainMorning's blog. She is celebrating her 100th blog entry!

 To sign up for the giveaway, go to the link below , read the rules of this giveaway (they are on her blog), and leave her a comment with your email address.

Here is the link - http://mountainmorning.blogspot.com/2008/11/100th-post-giveaway.html

                            Belle

My Friend, Mary-Ann / Poppy, has started a Yahoo Group.

Here is the link to the group -

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lock_and_key/

 Here is the description of the group, written by Mary-Ann -

Please come and sign up for the group!

                                  Belle

• 1 Bar of Fel-Naptha Soap
• 2 cups of Borax
  
• 2 cups of Arm & Hammer Washing (not baking) Soda
• a pot and a lid
  
• a clean five-gallon bucket
• a spoon
• a grater (like a cheese grater)
• a large stick for stirring - a broom handle works great!
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Put hot water in the pot with the grated soap, enough hot water to cover the grated soap. Put a lid on the pot of grated soap and heat the soap on the stove on meduim heat .

Stir the mixture together well and it is finished! You can use the soap immediatly, but do not bottle the soap for a day or two. In a few hours after making this soap usually turns into a thick gel, much like Jello. It is best to stir the soap every few hours or as often as possible for a day or two.

After a day or more of sitting in the bucket, it can be bottled. I store my soap in clean containers, juice containers work well. Any container used needs too be clean!

This Homemade Laundry soap doesn't make a bunch of suds like the laundry detergents from the store, but it does clean the laundry. To wash a one load of laundry, use one cup of homemade laundry soap.

This soap doesn't get the whites as white and bright as I like them, so I add about a cup of color safe bleach powder detergent to the whites, along with the cup of homemade laundry soap. I like the Sun brand color safe bleach. I get it at the Dollar Tree.

This soap has definately save money for my family! I hope you enjoy this recipe.

-Belle-

Please vote for my blog in the 2008 Homeschool Blog Awards. Here is the link to vote for my blog, Born 100 Years too Soon.

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Strawberry Tarts and Recipe!

Friday, I made some strawberry tarts to share with some friends.

I love tarts! I love to make them and I love to eat them.

I bought my 11 tart pans and a heart shaped jello mold, which works great as a tart pan, for only $1.00 at a flea market. I had been looking for some and I finally found them at that flea market I went to. I was very excited to get them! Below is a picture of the heart shaped jello mold, one of my heart shaped tart pans, and one circle tart pan.

Here is the recipe to make strawberry tarts.

Strawberry Tarts

Recipe for Tart shell:

Tart Shell

• 2 Cups flour
• 1 teapsoon salt
• 2/3 cups shortening
• 6 to 7 tablespoons of cold water

In a mixing bowl, stir together flour and salt. Cut in shortening until pieces are the size of small peas. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the water over the mixture; toss gently with a fork. Gradually add more of the tablespoons of water while working with the mixture until the dough is moistened enough to form into a ball.Form the dough into a ball and flatten the dough, with hands, on a lightly floured surface.

 

Roll the dough into a even piece of dough.

Lay the tart pan on the dough and cut around it 1/4 inch away from the pan.

Press the piece of cut dough into the tart pan. Apply enough pressure to the dough so that the dough will stay in place inside of the tart pan.

Now, prick the dough inside the tart pan with a fork.

After the dough in the pan has been pricked, it should look like the picture below.

After the all of the tart pans are filled with the dough and pricked, they can now go into the preheated oven. (Below is a picture before they have been baked.)
Here is a picture of the tart shells after they have baked.

 

Now the tart shells are ready to be filled.

Here is the recipe to make strawberry filling.

Strawberry Filling

• 2 tubes of Wick's Strawberry Glaze (it can be found in the produce aisle, it is NOT THE SUGAR- FREE)
  
• 2 quarts of Fresh Strawberries
  

Wash and strain the strawberries. Core and slice the strawberries into small slices and put slices in a medium miing bowl. Add the tubes of strawberry glaze to the sliced strawberries and gently fold together with a spatula. After glaze and strawberries are combined, pour it into the tart shells.
Put a little whipped cream on top of each tart before serving and they are ready to eat. Enjoy!

Belle

 

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My blog name is Born 100 Years too Soon.

Above is a picture of Hickory Nuts. My family and I collect the Hickory nuts in the woods. Hickory Nuts are delicious and they taste wonderful in chocolate chip cookies!

They are a bit difficult to get out of their hulls.

                              Belle

Please come and visit my shop where I sell cloth pads for women, things for baby, and homemade soap.

 http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/

In a few weeks I will be listing Goat Milk Soap.

Please come look!

                              Belle

These cookie make a great forg breakfast with a glass of milk or great for a snack. They are a chewy cookie. They are delicious!

3/4 C. Sugar

3/4 C. Sugar

1/4 C. Butter

2 Eggs

1/2 tsp. Vanilla

1/4 tsp. Baking Soda

1 C. PeanutButter

3 C. Oatmeal

1 C. Milk Chocolate Chips

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Preheat oven to 350 Degrees.

Mix Sugars, Butter, eggs, Vanilla, and Baking Soda in a large bowl with an electric mixer. After Sugars, Butter, eggs, Vanillam, and Baking Soda is mixed together, stir in Oatmeal and Chocolate Chips.

Drop cookiedough by spoonfulls onto a cookie sheet. Bake the cookies @ 350 degrees for 8-10 min.

 Picture of the PeanutButter Collasels.

Belle

 This recipe is very simple and easy to make. 

 It is great to make for a side-dish.

Here is what you will need to make Macaroni and Tomatoes :

• One large pot with lid
• A Strainer
• A Large Spoon
• 1 Cup of Elbow Macaroni
• 1 Quart of Home-grown, Home-canned Tomatoes
• A little butter
• 1 Spoonful of Bacon Grease

First, prepare all of your ingredients.

Then, fill the large pot 1/2 - 3/4 way full with water. Put the pot  with lid on the stove on high heat.

When the water in the pot begins to boil, put in the on cup of macaroni. Let the water and macaroni boil for 10 - 11 minutes on high heat. Stir the macaroni ocasionally to prevent the macaroni from sticking to the bottom of the pot.

After the water and macaroni have been boiled for  10 - 11 minutes, pour the pot of water and Macaroni into the strainer and strain out all of the water. Then, put the macaroni back into the pot. Put a little bit of butter into the pot with the macaroni, just so the macaroni doesn't stick to each other or the bottom of the pot.

Now, pour in the quart of tomatoes into the pot and add the spoonful of bacon grease. Put the pot on low heat on the stove so it stays warm until ready to serve.

You might be wondering what my title of my post means....I will explain.

 I logged into my acount a little while ago and my entire blog was and is deleted. I was and am very sad to find this out about my blog. I had many posts here, sometimes, I would read my own blog to 'refresh' my memory of something I had forgotten. I would come and look up my own recipes when I misplaced my own copy.

So, that is the end of my blog, but now, I will give my blog a beginning again. I am going to try to repost all of my blog entries.

                         Belle