Saturday, March 6, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
How To Blow an Egg Out
Ever wonder how to blow an egg out ?
A very nice picture tutorial can be found HERE
Then you can create your own decopodged and painted forever eggs.
A very nice picture tutorial can be found HERE
Then you can create your own decopodged and painted forever eggs.
Thinking about the Birds Think Gourds:
Crafts and Growing For you and the Birds
Gorgeous Autumn Gourds
Sunflower gourds
Lively Gourd
Snowman and Santa gourd
How to Grow Gourds
Gourd Tips & Information
Birdhouse Gourds/pdf
Gourds
Grow a Gourd Birdhouse
Far North Gourd Growing Info
http://www.lake-butler.com/pbgourds.htm
http://www.justgourds.com/
http://www.geocities.com/tgs_southeast/Documents/GrowingGourds.html
http://www.craftybirds.com/gourdbirdhouse.html
http://home.att.net/~DLeddy/freepattern.html
http://www.thegourdpeddlers.com/
http://www.turtlefeathers.com/
http://www.geocities.com/tgs_southeast/Documents/GrowingGourds.html
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Gorgeous Autumn Gourds
Sunflower gourds
Lively Gourd
Snowman and Santa gourd
How to Grow Gourds
Gourd Tips & Information
Birdhouse Gourds/pdf
Gourds
Grow a Gourd Birdhouse
Far North Gourd Growing Info
http://www.lake-butler.com/pbgourds.htm
http://www.justgourds.com/
http://www.geocities.com/tgs_southeast/Documents/GrowingGourds.html
http://www.craftybirds.com/gourdbirdhouse.html
http://home.att.net/~DLeddy/freepattern.html
http://www.thegourdpeddlers.com/
http://www.turtlefeathers.com/
http://www.geocities.com/tgs_southeast/Documents/GrowingGourds.html
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Wine to Vinegar
Making Vinegar From Wine
If you make wine (as oppesed to apple) vinegar, you can dispense with the apples and the press. You'll want good quality wine that's not too strong -- 10-11% alcohol -- because too much alcohol inhibits the activity of the bacteria that transform the wine. If the wine is too weak, on the other hand, the vinegar won't keep well.
There are several ways to proceed.
The simplest is to leave an open, 3/4 filled bottle of wine in a warm place for a four weeks.
Check the taste every 2 weeks and you can leave it longer just taste once a week to your liking.
This technique yields just one bottle, however. For a steady supply of vinegar, take a wide-mouthed glass jug whose capacity is at least a gallon and pour a quart of wine and a cup of vinegar into it. Keep the container covered most of the time, but open it for a half hour every day. In a couple of weeks the madre, a viscous starter, will have settled to the bottom of the jug, while the vinegar above it will be ready for use. Add more wine as you remove vinegar to keep the level in the jug constant.
If you want to make wine vinegar in larger batches, procure a 1-gallon (5 liter) cask that has a spigot at one end. If it's new, rinse it with vinegar and let it dry. Next, fill it to within a couple of inches of the top with wine and put it, uncovered, in a place that's about 68 degrees F (20 C). In a couple of weeks the wine will be vinegar. Drain it from the cask using the spigot, and, if you can, bottle it during a waning moon because it will be clearer. Replace the vinegar removed with more wine, pouring it into the cask with a length of hose so as to leave the surface molds undisturbed.
As was true for apple vinegar, homemade wine vinegar will be more delicate and have greater depth than commercially prepared vinegar.
If you make wine (as oppesed to apple) vinegar, you can dispense with the apples and the press. You'll want good quality wine that's not too strong -- 10-11% alcohol -- because too much alcohol inhibits the activity of the bacteria that transform the wine. If the wine is too weak, on the other hand, the vinegar won't keep well.
There are several ways to proceed.
The simplest is to leave an open, 3/4 filled bottle of wine in a warm place for a four weeks.
Check the taste every 2 weeks and you can leave it longer just taste once a week to your liking.
This technique yields just one bottle, however. For a steady supply of vinegar, take a wide-mouthed glass jug whose capacity is at least a gallon and pour a quart of wine and a cup of vinegar into it. Keep the container covered most of the time, but open it for a half hour every day. In a couple of weeks the madre, a viscous starter, will have settled to the bottom of the jug, while the vinegar above it will be ready for use. Add more wine as you remove vinegar to keep the level in the jug constant.
If you want to make wine vinegar in larger batches, procure a 1-gallon (5 liter) cask that has a spigot at one end. If it's new, rinse it with vinegar and let it dry. Next, fill it to within a couple of inches of the top with wine and put it, uncovered, in a place that's about 68 degrees F (20 C). In a couple of weeks the wine will be vinegar. Drain it from the cask using the spigot, and, if you can, bottle it during a waning moon because it will be clearer. Replace the vinegar removed with more wine, pouring it into the cask with a length of hose so as to leave the surface molds undisturbed.
As was true for apple vinegar, homemade wine vinegar will be more delicate and have greater depth than commercially prepared vinegar.
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