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Bagel recipe! Also, more yogurt misadventures
Here is the website where I found the recipe for the bagels I made the other night:Bagels for Beginners
Note: I didn't use the bread flour called for; I used half all-purpose and half whole-wheat, and they turned out fabulously. I'm sure bread flour with its higher gluten content would simply be more fail-proof and perhaps have a slightly different texture.
The bagels are amazing! I cannot WAIT to make them again. Actually, I'm home alone tonight so I may go bake to keep myself occupied. I want to try cinnamon raisin! MM! Also, the recipe uses a surprisingly small amount of flour (4 cups made 8 or 9 smallish bagels). I'm sure if I wanted to use less yeast, too, I could let it work overnight, which would probably yield something of a sourdough taste. I'll have to experiment. If anyone makes these, let me know! I'm pretty much ridiculously excited about it. (Can you tell? X-D)
My yogurt efforts, however, are still not doing very well. >.< I tried another batch with a different recipe, and this time let it incubate on a towel-covered heating pad under a glass mixing bowl with a sweater over it (as I was setting up this contraption, both my husband and my hedgehog were giving me very odd looks), so I know it was plenty warm. The results were almost identical to my first attempt: definitely yogurt, but in liquid form, with no body to it to speak of. GRR.
However, I refuse to be vanquished. When I was glancing at the ingredient list of the cup of commercial yogurt I was using as a starter, I noticed the one ingredient I lacked in my own yogurt: pectin!! I wonder if this is the missing link in my quest for perfect, thick yogurt? I have no experience whatsoever with pectin, but I figure now is as good a time as any to learn. Is it heat activated? If so, I imagine I could just toss some in when I'm heating the milk and see what happens. Worst case scenario, we just have funny-tasting milk over our cereal tomorrow morning. :-p
Other quick updates: Franklin's foot is healing nicely; he has a follow-up vet's appointment this Thursday to make sure that everything is going as planned. He finished his antibiotics, for which we are both grateful (there's nothing quite like wrestling a *hedgehog*, of all creatures, into letting you stick a syringe in his mouth and squirting sticky pink stuff down his throat twice a day. Ouch!).
Also, Todd and I are continuing to work on that research project at Harvard, the one for his uncle's book. We haven't had much time yet to really devote to it, but this week we are going to crack down and put in some good library time (our main project is tracking down letters exchanged between Theodore Roosevelt and one of Todd's uncle's ancestors over a twenty-year period, bringing them into the best focus possible on the microfilm machine, and then burning them to CD). It took us most of this time figuring out just how to get into Lamont Library, since technically only Harvard students and faculty are supposed to be allowed into the Harvard libraries, but we did it! Since the TR letter collection belongs to the government, they technically had to let us in if we wanted to see them. I felt so sneaky running around that library when we were there yesterday. :-)
Alright. I think I'm going to putter around online a bit longer and then go make BAGELS! Yay!
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06:17, Sunday, October 12, 2008 .. Posted by morningsunshineokay, I am going to try this. I am not good at explaining things that need a picture, but we will try....
when I am typing my new entry, I will type something like this:
"Go here to see the article" then I go highlight the word "here" and click the "insert/edit link" button above the text box. It looks like a globe with an infinity sign or paperclip under it.
That will bring up a box with two fields. The first says "Link name" and that is where you will retype "here" or more details like, "to the HSLDA website"
The second says "URL" and that is where you paste the link. Finally, click the "add link"; button and it should insert nicely.
I like to add typing AFTER where I want the link BEFORE I actually paste it in, otherwise what I type after seems to become part of the link. I am probably doing something wrong there, but my way works!
Sometimes I will click "preview entry" when I am done and just check to see if my links worked before I actually post the entry.
I hope this helps! I cannot wait to try this bagel recipe. Thanks!
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12:19, Monday, October 13, 2008 .. Posted by gabbie427Wonderful post!!!
BTW, I was NOT offended by your questions about homeschooling, but then again I am not sure what I will do with our little one when the time comes either. He is only 2.5. I have a littlw while to figure that out. LMSO
I read MtAiryMom's response to your question, and I don't think she meant anything by it. Sharon has such a sweet spirit. I don't think she meant it as you took it. It is hard in a blog where you can't hear the tone of someone's voice, or see their face to see the real meaning of what was said.
Praying for God's guidance in choosing the best path (public or home schooling) for your children!
God's Blessings,
Amy Jo
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