Recipes going to the dogs

We have a new puppy – you can see info at the other blog: http://bettsberm.blogspot.com
And we have gone raw in the canine feeding department. So, I may add a few recipes here for your 4 footed friends.
First – liver treats (thanks to my friend Shannon)
Cut up liver into palm size pieces and boil for about 1/2 an hour in water with a little garlic salt.
Strain and sprinkle with a touch more garlic salt – let cool.
Cut into treat size pieces – put into ziplock baggies and freeze
On your way to training – grab a bag.

Cooling liver

Scalloped Tomatoes?

Really, I have heard of potatoes – but not tomatoes.

Another Dr. Fenner recipe:

Scalloped Tomatoes

Butter the baking dish. Put in a layer of cracker crumbs; then a layer of sliced or cooked tomatoes, which have been seasoned with salt, pepper, extract of onion and celery salt. Then another layer of crumbs, tomatoes, etc., until the dish is full.

bake 1/2 hour in hot oven.

I need to see it to believe it….

Sour Beans from Dr. Fenner

This one made me chuckle – my Grandmother made the best “sour beans” ever to grace a summer  table.

Sour Beans

String the beans and break into inch lengths. Pour over them as little hot water as will boil them, and cook until soft.  (If young and tender, 10 minutes will cook them). Drain through a sieve, perfectly dry. Put into a sauce pan 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 teaspoonful of flour, about 1 tablespoonful of vinegar, salt and pepper. Add the beans a let all cook together a few minutes. Just before taking up, beat up and egg light and add to it. of course, the dressing for the beans must be added to according to the amount of beans used.

Obviously, this was written by someone with English as a second language.  I find that it was not edited to be very interesting.  By the way – this recipe came from the “healthy kidneys” section of the People’s Remedies Cook book!

Baked Onions

Another from Dr Fenner’s Book – Baked Onions

Boil onions until tender, but not soft. Place in the dish in which they ar to be baked. Take a sharp knife and make a hole in the center of each, putting in a small piece of butter. Salt and pepper to taste. sprinkle flour over the top, and cover with sweet milk. Bake 1 hour.

No temperature nor type of onions listed.

Onion Soup

from Dr Fenner’s People’s remedies cook book – as blogged  last week.

Onion Soup

Chop 2 onions very fine and brown in a sauce pan with a piece of btter the size of 2 eggs; stir in 2 heaping tablespoons sifted flour.    Burns easily…. take care.

Add slowly 3 pints of white broth (see below); mix thoroughly and smoothly season with salt and pepper to taste; cook for 10 minutes.

Place 6 pieces of toasted bread in a large bowl; cover with very thin slices of Swiss cheese; pour the soup over them; add 2 tablespoonfuls of Swiss cheese.

Put in the oven 5 minutes before serving.

_________  This is healthy?_____________________

White Stock for Soups:

Place in a large stock urn, on a moderate fire, a good heavy knuckle of fine white veal, with 2 pounds of good soup meat. cover with cold water, add a handful of salt and when it boils skim off scum.

Then add 2 large sound and well-scraped carrots, 1 sound turnip, 1 large peeled onion, 1 well-cleaned parsley root, 3 thoroughly washed leeks, and a few leaves of cleaned celery.  Boil very slowly for six hours on corner of the range. Carefully skim the grease off, strain well through a wet cloth into a large earthen bowl and put away in a cool place for general use.

Look What I found

Just found a book that I did not know I had – and it is going to make me revive Recipe Box Memories.

Dr. Fenner’s Peoples Remedies  Cook Book (M.M. Fenner Co. Fredonia, N.Y) copyright 1907 and from a Great Great Aunt’s kitchen (Cora Hoerger).

***  A biography of  M.M. Fenner***

Fenner Remedy Bottle

Most interesting is the beginning advertisement for Dr. Fenner’s Remedy – good for all diseases of the kidneys, urinary passages, backache, lumbago, sciatica, etc.  good for Catarrh of head, stomach and bladder – god for irregularities, ulcerations, anemia etc – good for rheumatism, nerualigia, dropsy and ridding the blood of all impurities.

Obviously I need a bottle of this.!

Then it begins with recipes – which I will post during the next few months.  WHAT a FIND!  I should dust my shelves more often.

Farmhouse Carrots

This one is for my daughter-in-law!  It just looked so good when I came across it that it will now become a memory in my recipe box.

Farmhouse Carrots
By The Sprouted Kitchen

2 Bunches Carrots (about 15ish carrots)
1 Cup Thinly Sliced Spring Onion
¼ Cup Roughly Chopped Savory*
2 Tbsp. Honey
1 ½ Tbsp. Unsalted Butter
2 Tbsp. Apple Cider Vinegar
Salt/Pepper
Fresh chives for garnish

Note: If you cannot find fresh savory, I would use three parts fresh thyme to one part rosemary as an alternative.
Oven to 400′

In a small bowl, warm the butter, honey and cider vinegar together. Break apart the rings of the spring onion. Add the slices and the chopped savory into the honey mixture and let it all marinate. Set aside.

Cut off the green leafy parts and clean the carrots with a scrub brush. Leave them on a dish towel to dry completely.

Line a baking tray with foil or parchment paper (I didn’t do this, and I wish I did, much easier to clean). Spread out the carrots in a single layer.

Drizzle the honey mixture over and gently toss to coat. Generously sprinkle coarse salt and pepper.

Roast on the upper rack for 20 minutes. Carrots should be tender but still have a good bit of resistance too them.

Garnish with fresh chives.

Corny start to 2011

I will try to post at least once a month this year – and I am starting with my son, Micah’s, favorite corn dish.
Very simple  and made for all the holidays.

Baked Corn

1 cup milk
2 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp flour
1 pound of whole corn
2 well beaten eggs

Boil 3/4 cup milk with butter and sugar. Dissolve flour in 1.4 cup milk. Pour flour mixture into milk mixture to make a thin white sauce. Add to drained corn in oven-save loaf pan.  Mix in eggs. Bake 1 hour at 400 degrees.

2010 in review

So, do I continue?

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 37 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 60 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 6mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was October 23rd with 41 views. The most popular post that day was Gefüllte Klöse or Stuffed Dumplings.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, twitter.com, Google Reader, alphainventions.com, and vancouver.en.craigslist.org.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for klöse, german stuffed dumplings, hanging grill, anise cookies, and recipe box history.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Gefüllte Klöse or Stuffed Dumplings January 2010

2

Recipe Box Memories January 2010
2 comments

3

Iranian Sabzi February 2010

4

Fett History January 2010
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5

Family Tree February 2010

Old Fashioned Honey Cookies

Old Fashioned Honey Cookies from my Great Grandma Netti Maxwell

4 cups sifted four

1/4 tea salt

1 1/2 cup lard

1 1/2 cup honey

2 teasp. soda

1 teasp. ginger

1 teasp cinnamon

1/4 cup butter

5 Tblsp boiling water

Mix (beat) well let satnd over night in cool place. Roll and bake. Yep those were all the directions – I remember sitting in the overwarm kitchen with a huge glass of fresh milk and these cookies. She made them “big”.

I just realized I posted this as my first recipe in this blog – Guess it is appropriate to make it also the last of the year.  Forgive the double post.