November Work List

It is time to move inside, to snug down, to venture out on cold, dank afternoons for long walks, then come home to sit by the fire.

·       Leaf mulch

·       Do NOT leave the pumpkins to rot on the steps

·       Clean up garden beds—compost in place for flower beds

·       Pie social

·       Sort the knitting wool

·       Find clothes drying racks

·       Split wood

·       Clean out the heater filter

·       Bring in the outdoor furniture

·       Create the holiday cards

·       Make fruitcake

·       Hang the storm windows

·       Rake leaves

·       Oil bike chains and fix the lights

·       Fill Your Pantry with beans and grains

Pumpkin Bread

3.5 c flour (wheat and white)

2 t BS

.5 t BP

1.5 t salt

1 t cinnamon

.5 t nutmeg

.5 t cloves

handful of raisins or chocolate chips or nuts or all three

2/3 c veg oil

2 c pumpkin

4 eggs

2 c white sugar

2/3 c milk

Mix wet and dry in separate bowls, then mix together. Pour into two bread pans and bake in 350 degree oven

Harvest is in!

Homestead Harvest is in…and the tally is:

Pickled Beets:6 pints

Blueberries: 2 quarts dried

Plums: 8 pints canned

            6 quarts dried

Pears: 5 quarts dried

Apples: 7 quarts dried

            4 pints of sauce

            3 quarts of juice—already gone…

Grape juice: 23 quart

Figs: 5 quarts dried

Tomatoes: roasted 70 half pints roasted

7        pints of salsa

4 quarts dried

Green Beans: 7 pints canned

Honey: 5.5 quarts, so far

Jam: 3 gooseberry

            6 rhurbarb red currant

            6 peach

            7 grape

Pickles: senfgurten—5

            Olive oil—2

            Dill spears—8

Dried beans—1 quart of Indian Woman

                        1 quart of Scarlet Runner

We also have two trays of apples left, three dozen longkeeper tomatoes, jujubes hanging on the tree, squashes and pumpkins in the larder.

Pumpkin Bread:

You can use canned pumpkin and it is tidy-- or you can bake your own, store in in pint jars in the freezer, and haul it out when you need it. This makes two loaves: one for now and one for the freezer.

3 1/3 c flour-- half whole wheat

2 t BS

1/2 t BP

1 1/2 t salt

1 t cinnamon

1/2 t nutmeg and cloves

2/3 c oil

2 c pumpkin

4 eggs

2 c sugar

2/3 c milk

raisins, nuts, chocolate chips, apples...whatever is around

Mix dry together. Mix wet together. Mix the two. Bake in a 350 degree oven.