Baking Bread

Baking Bread

During this hectic time, Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC is getting back to basics by making a few items that have noticeably been missing from the grocery store shelves lately. Here is the recipe for making this bread. You can add in your favorite herbs or cheese when baking. As Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC won't be able to sell our herbs at the local Farmer's Market, we had an abundance of fresh herbs to add to our recipe today, including oregano and savory.

What you will need:

• An Oven 
• (2) 9x5 inch baking pans
• Mixing Bowls
• Measuring Cups and Spoons
• A wet cloth 
• 5-6 cups of Flour
• 2 cups of warm water (110 degrees F)
• 1/2 cup of white sugar
• 1 1/2 Tbsp of active dry yeast 
• 1 1/2 Tsp of Salt
• Herbs 1-2 Tbsp or to taste
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil 
• additional oil for preparing pans

How to:

• In a large bowl mix sugar and water and yeast. 
• Wait 5 min.
• Mix salt, herbs and oil into mixture.
• Mix in flour one cup at a time until all is added.
• Roll into a ball and place in a large oiled bowl with a wet cloth over it until the dough has doubled in size (approximately an hour) at room temperature. 

• Grease baking pans.
• Knead the dough down for about a minute, separate into two balls and place each ball into a greased baking pan.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Let the dough in the pans rise until it is one inch over the pan. 

• Bake for 30 minutes at 350.
• Let cool and enjoy!

For a recipe to make your own wild yeast visit https://www.littlelakeviewconservatory.com/2020/03/yeast.html

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Yeast

Wild Yeast Sourdough Starter Recipe:

Looking to buy bread at the grocery store, and seeing it was sold out at the time, I next moved on to looking for yeast. Thinking well I'll just make bread myself, and the yeast was sold out! After a few shopping trips at multiple stores I did indeed find yeast and eventually bread, but I was then inspired to start my own yeast to have on hand as well. An abundance of herbs and the cool spring weather fuelled the desire to bake as well.

What you need:

• Pineapple juice
• Flour
• Water
• Mason Jar 

How to:

1. Keeping at room temperature, Mix 2 tbsp of Pineapple Juice and 3 Tbsp Flour in a Mason Jar.
2. Stir the mixture 3 times in 24 hrs.
3. After 24hrs, add 3 Tbsp of Flour and 2 Tbsp of water.
4. Stir the mixture 3 times in 24 hrs.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for 5 days. Yeast should start forming after that, creating bubbling.

Ongoing Maintenance:

• Discard half, use in a recipe.
• If you plan on using a lot of yeast you can leave it at room temperature to grow faster while feeding it daily/or you may keep it in the fridge, feeding once weekly to make about enough for weekly use.
• ...And to Feed:
• After discarding half of the mixture, fill mixture amount back with equal amounts in weight of water and flour(2 parts water and 3 parts flour). Place the mixture in the fridge. 
• If your mixture starts to have an unpleasant smell or shows growth of mold, toss immediately and start again new.
• If your mixture accumulates access liquid, poor the excess liquid out and add more flour to feed it in the future.
• If you are going to substitute dry yeast in a recipe for your wild yeast sourdough starter: Substitute 1 cup of starter for a package of dry yeast, then subtract 1/2 a cup of water and 3/4 cup of flour from your recipe. 

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Soil Sanitizing:

When recycling used soil from old planters or elsewhere, it's a good idea to sanitize your soil to remove possible pathogens. However, once your soil is "Sanitized" it will actually be dirt. You may need to add amendments, microbes, to bring your soil situation back to a living growing environment again. 

What you will need:

A Large container for your Mixture

A garden trowel/hand shovel to mix with

Soil 

Baking dishes

An oven

How to:

Preheat oven to 200

Place dirt in 5 gallon bucket.

Mix with garden trowel/hand shovel. Take out any unwanted matter. 

Place dirt in baking dishes.

Place baking dishes in oven for at least a half hour. 

Remove dirt and let cool before mixing with soil enhancers.

  

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Additional resources:

https://www.almanac.com/organic-soil-amendments-explained

https://cedarcirclefarm.org/tips/entry/the-living-soil-microorganisms

Choose a large container to mix your sanitized dirt with amendments, bringing it back to healthy Soil again.

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Bake Cookies Day!

Happy Bake Cookies Day!

December 18th

We're using herb infused butter, made with our own Little Lakeview Conservatory, LLC's Mint, to make our "Mint Infused Chocolate Chip Cookies" :

Mint (infused) Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Mint (infused) Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Ingredients:

1 cups Mint infused Butter https://www.littlelakeviewconservatory.com/p/herb-infused-butter.html

1/2 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

2 Eggs

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Vanilla

2 cups Flour

1 Bag of Chocolate Chips (10oz)

Preheat Oven to 350 F.

Mix Butter, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Eggs, Baking Soda, and Vanilla together. Add in Flour, mix. Add in a Bag of Chocolate Chips.

Drop Cookie Dough in Spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet. Bake in oven for 12-15 min. Let cool. Enjoy.

All DIY projects shown on LittleLakeviewConservatory.com are purely "at your own risk". As with any DIY project, unfamiliarity with the tools and process can be dangerous. Posts should be construed as theoretical advice only. 

If you are at all uncomfortable or inexperienced working on these projects (especially but not limited to electronics and mechanical), please reconsider doing the job yourself. It is very possible on any DIY project to damage your cottage, void your property insurance, create a hazardous condition or harm or even kill yourself or others.

Little Lakeview Conservatory LLC will not be held responsible for any injury due to any featured DIY project.

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Little Lakeview Conservatory, LLC was est. in 2019 to provide sustainable plants in NH and to share information to help people create self sustainability in their own homes.

Please feel free to contact us at LittleLakeviewConservatory@gmail.com be added to our email list or with any questions, requests and comments.

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