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Heres our boy Hunter. He is getting around very well with his over-the-knee cast and using crutches. He and I made cookies and he received extra credit for his "life skills" class (home ec to you 60s folks). He knows more about the chemistry of baking now and hes a great student. Next we played poker and he is doing very well there too, beat me several times.
Took this picture right before I left last Sat.
Happy to be looking at this and hearing about a "wintry mix" and not being in it.
This was a johnnycake eating contest. They are quite delicious (one is) but rather heavy, a fried dough disk. The contestants were allowed to dip in glasses of water but it was still slow going. A young girl (not seen in this photo) began to gag and vomit which was a bit distracting to the others but they soldiered on. The winner downed 5 JCs in 5 minutes. All this to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club. I won a gift certificate to a local eatery in the raffle.
posted by Junglechina at 1/18/2011 09:03:00 AM
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What is the recipe for them johnny cakes?
V.I. Johnnycakes.
3 cups flour
1 tbl baking powder
1 1/2 tea salt
2 tbl sugar
1/2 cup solid veg shortening
2/3 cup milk
Mix dry ingredients together, cut in shortening with pastry cutter ot 2 knives.Gradually add milk until soft dough is formed (not too wet, may not need all liquid) Knead until dough holds together somewhat. Let rest under a towel for 10-20 min. Shape into disks like you see in the picture. Deep fry in several inches of hot oil until brown and puffed up a little. You can bake them at 350 degrees instead but then they won't be greasy and heart stopping. These VI johnnycakes should not be confused with southern JCs which are essentially pancakes made with fine cornmeal. Down here they serve them with salt cod or fried fish but if you put powdered sugar on them they are great with a cup of coffee. So this is my first recommendation, try to make some JCs.
Thanks. I'm heading up to the great north woods this weekend for the annual 15-below camping trip. I will make a batch of fried fish johnnies for the macho hombres in their flannel shirts.
u st croix dudes would be heavily missing joysey on this fine day. snowed at 5am, freezing rain 6am thru 10am, rain 10am onward with a balmy 36 on the mercury. the bottom of the weather barrel.
yeehaa!
lookin good hunter. how many weeks in that thing?
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