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Are you as busy as we are this week? Just how much baking can a woman do in a kitchen with one 40 year old wall oven and three boys who want to help with Every.Single.Recipe? When I think I'm at my wit's end and no one else has as busy a life as mine, I tune into The Kansas Milkmaid for a refresher course in contentment and patience.
Today, Christina Fuller, aka "The Milkmaid", shares her secrets for making butter and buttermilk. I was riveted to the blog post as she describes the tips and techniques discovered while making butter from the raw milk available on her dairy farm in Kansas. And she does this while attending to three more children than I have in my house!
She has much more in her archives on cheesemaking, and if you get really hooked on her site (like I am), take time to read the archives, where commenters are treated to her specific expertise related to pointed questions posed by readers.
I'll let ya'll get back to the cranberry relish making and baking all that cornbread you'll need Thursday for the dressing (you DO make cornbread dressing, don't you? Isn't that in the Thanksgiving handbook as Rule Two, behind the bird?) but when the kitchen cools off and the family is helping themselves to leftovers this weekend, do stop by and read the wisdom of Christina.
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Denise Burns is the wife of Mike and the mother of Cooper, William, and Eston. Her family farm website is Burns Best Farm and she blogs here at Homestead Blogger at a blog by the same name. She's contributing homemade pumpkin pie to the extended family meal in addition to brining the turkey bird in a salt brine for maximum moistness. She's a certified turkey roaster from way back. Seriously.
