HOMEMADE BUTTER!

Time for some good old fashion butter making!!! FIRST: Take some heaving whipping cream and fill and small container ( we used small baby food jars) half way full. Screw the lid on TIGHT!









SECOND: SHAKE! SHAKE! SHAKE!








NOW: You should have a jar with a nice lump of butter that's surrounded by BUTTERMILK!!

THIRD: Take that yummy buttermilk and strain it into another jar.

THEN: Plop out your butter in a small bowl, add a bit of salt ( around a pinch to an 1/8th tsp.) and WALLA!! BUTTER!! Spread on something yummy and consume!!

Finally dried apple rings!!

Well, after a little more then 24 hours, they are finally nice and gnarly looking! lol They are chewy and sweet and tangy!! YUM YUM!! Gotta try this!

Dried Fruit

Today is kinda a slow day. Normal school things in the morning. Jason took the truck in AGAIN to see what the deal is. Of course it didn't do whatever it's doing wrong while they had it though. But, asked him to bring it in as soon as it does to look it over free of charge. So that's good! Today our history activity is dried apples. SOoooo, daddy went to the store for a big old Jonathan apple and we got to slicing. We made as many rounds as we could ( after coring ), dipped them in lemon juice and then strung them up on a bit of string behind (what I think ) will be the perfect dehydrator... and closer to what they had back then as apposed to a electric one:) We will see how it does. Drying time depends on temp and thickness/size of the apple. Will let y'all know how they turn out!!

Monday HOMEMADE FUN! Candles, Mayo and Bread!

A new week brings new adventure here at the Land house! Today we have had lots of fun creating homemade items! First project of the days was making beeswax candles! So easy and fun to do! The girls really enjoyed making there own candles and then adding little bits of wax shapes here and there to make it there own. Sammy got to add a beeeeee! Jason got to make one too with the bit of left over wax. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to be able to have him participate with us. We all really love having daddy around!
Next up was lunch! We found a really great recipe for HOMEMADE MAYO! So, we used that with our homemade whole wheat bread to make tuna sandwiches! The mayo came out so great, I don't think I will ever go back!! Here's the recipe ( I got this from a blog I follow called "The Grocery Cart Challenge":

Homemade Mayo

1 whole egg
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white vinegar
1 cup canola oil
1 dash paprika

*Recipe makes 1-1/4 cups mayonnaise.

In blender, add egg, dry mustard, vinegar, paprika and 1/4 cup oil and blend on low 1-2 minutes.
Turn blender off, and scrape sides down. Turn blender on, and while it is running, slowly add the remaining 3/4 cups oil. Blend until the consistency of mayonnaise. Refrigerate in non-reactive container.

We finished Lunch off with some funny face plates and some "Mock wine" ( kooooolaid!) and had a elegant candlelight lunch! Hope ya'll are having fun too! Mondays don't have to be horrible if you throw in a little fun!

The Oregon Trail

For the past week, the family has been sent back through time to the 1800's on a 2000 mile trip from Independance, Mo. to the state of Oregon! This study has been LONG overdue as I LOVE THIS TIME PERIOD!!!! We are having so much fun with this!! The first thing we did is make fun Prarie Diaries. The girls have to choose names and a family and a reason for leaving the east to travel west. Each day they write a little in it as if they're are out on the trail. They are really enjoying this. They both decided to draw pictures in the beginning of their journals to show their families:)

Today we have been working on Portable Soup and homemade crackers!! So much fun and it was actually really good!! Looking forward to all of next weeks activities!!