Friendship Bread

It's the season for sharing our friendship. This is recipe is for friendship bread that is meant to be shared. Start your starter and in 10 days you will have some great bread to share. If you didn't get to taste our bread at open house, come and see us the day after thanksgiving and we will have friendship bread for you to taste. We made ours with pumpkin which is perfect for the season.

1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/4 c. warm water
1 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 c. warm milk (110 degrees)

Making the starter:

Day 1:

Soften active dry yeast with 1/4 cup warm water for 10 minutes.
Stir with a wooden spoon. In a non-metal bowl, combine 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix, slowly adding 1 cup warm milk and the softened yeast. Cover loosely with clean cloth and leave at room temperature until bubbly. When mixture has lots of bubbles, put into a quart sized zip top bag.


Days 2, 3, and 4:
Mash the bag. Do this once each day.

Day 5:

stir in 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk; re close bag


Days 6, 7, 8, 9:

open bag and release air. Mash the bag. Do this once each day.

Day 10:
Follow these instructions

1- pour entire contents of the bag into a NON METALLIC bowl. Add 1 1/2 C flour, 1 1/2 C Sugar, and 1 1/2 C milk.

2- Measure out 4 SEPARATE batters of 1 Cup each into 4 1 gallon zip lock bags. Keep a starter for yourself & give the others to friends with a copy of this recipe.

Baking Instructions:

1-Preheat oven to 325 Degrees
2- To the remaining batter in bowl ADD:

3 Eggs
1/2 C milk
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 C oil and 1/2 cup Pumpkin or Applesauce
1 C Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1/2 tsp Baking soda
2 Cups Flour

3- Grease 2 large loaf pans (or you can use small individual loaf pans or even muffin pans) Mix 1/2 C sugar with 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon in an additional bowl. Dust the pans with HALF the mixture.
4- Pour the batter in to your pans. Sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture on top.

5- Bake 1 hour for big loaf pans or apx 30 mins for the individual pans or muffin pans. Cool bread until bread loosens for the edges of the pan. ENJOY THE DELICIOUS BREAD!

Open House

JOIN US TODAY FROM 8 AM TO 9 PM FOR OUR OPEN HOUSE! If you get the newspaper, check our ad for you 40% off 1 orginal priced item. Also, come in and shop our ONE day sale. We will have a drawing for a 100.00 shopping spree, fun demos, treats, make and takes and lots of fun! Stop on in and check out our AWESOME deals!

Special Collectibles

Come in and see our great collection of Nativity decor. We have very special collectible sets by Demdaco, Mama Says, and Jim Shore . All of these make wonderful gifts, and would be great for your own home decor.

-Jackie

Cute Photo Box

Need a cute gift idea for a grandparent/ parent, friend, sister, a teacher, ect. Check out this cute unpainted photo box with a lid. You can paint it any color and add any kind of embellishments to fit their style. The top comes off so you can actaully store pencils, pens, paper clips and anything else you cant think of.

Everyday Value price is $4.99 Each, On sale starting November 7 for $3.33

-Emma

Cute "TURKEY" craft idea

Check out this cute spoon turkey by Nicole Crafts. Come in to our store and purchase $5.00 worth of Nicole crafts product and receive the magazine for Free. Here are the instructions for this cute spoon.

Click here for pattern.

1 PAINT SPOON LIGHT BROWN. LET DRY. COVER WITH DECOUPAGE MEDIUM. LET DRY.
2 USING PATTERNS, CUT SHAPES FROM FOAM.
3 EMBELLISH FEATHERS WITH NICOLE DIMENSIONAL PAINT. LET DRY. GLUE FEATHERS TO ONE SIDE OF BODY SHAPE. GLUE SPOON TO OTHER SIDE. SEE PHOTO.
4 GLUE ON EYES, WATTLE, BEAK AND WINGS. EMBELLISH WINGS WITH BROWN DIMENSIONAL PAINT. LET DRY.

Also, Check out their website www.nicolecrafts.com for more cute crafting ideas.
-Kim

Cookie Cutters with a recipe

Come and check out our selection of Cookie cutters. We have your "everyday", Thanksgiving and Christmas Cutters. Use our Cookie Cutters with this delicious sugar cookie recipe below:


Christmas Sugar Cookies

1 1/8 C Shortening (half butter)
1 1/2 C Sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp lemon flavoring
3 3/4 C flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Cream together the shortening/butter, sugar, eggs and lemon flavoring. Blend flour, baking powder and salt; stir in shortening mixture. Chill dough at least 1 hour.

Heat oven to 400 Degrees. Roll the dough 1/8" thick on a floured board. Cut with "cookie cutters". Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 6-8 minutes.

Makes 5 to 6 dozen
(modified from Betty Crocker, 1961, by Emma Gebo)

Frost and decorate as desired by using easy creamy icing.
2 tbsp soft butter
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon flavoring
2-3 C powdered sugar
2 tbsp water or milk

In a small bowl, use a spoon to mix the butter, salt, flavoring, and part of the powdered sugar until creamy. Add more powdered sugar and the liquid as needed to create an easy to use icing for your cooking. Tint small portions of the frosting as desired for decorating your cookies.

-Emma

Snowman Card

Check out this idea for a cute Christmas card.

Use one half of a 8 1/2 x 11" piece of card stock in a dark color.
Use Bo Bunny rub one for the background.
Remove the blue protective covering from both sides of the acrylic sheet and using the snowman die cut and cut out the snowman.
Out of a six inch sheet you can get a snowman and two or three snowflakes.
Cut off snowman's arms.
Use Staz- on cotton ink, pat the edges with the ink. Let it dry for a few minutes.
Use the 3/16 hole punch and punch the eyes, and centers of the snowflakes.
The one snowflake over laps the snowman.
Attach all pieces with a white glitter brad.
You can also use a tiny glue dot at the edge of the snowman to help him in place.
BETH