Tuesday, August 4, 2009

No More Zoar

One of the best parts of these shows is the food. You never know what to expect. One of the booths offered chicken barbeque.


The grill for the chicken was this train engine. Barbeque people tend to get very artistic with their grills. Right above the counter on the side of the engine are the handles to open the grill. The smoke from the grill rises out of the smoke stack. Chew chew!!!


Where there is German influence you will always find brats.


The chicken grillers definitely beat this guy out in the imaginative grill category.


You could eat your food under the apple trees.


And on benches with cute patriotic centerpieces.


A list of what this booth had to offer.


Baked bean sandwiches?....an Englishmen has infiltrated the Germans!

Just as we sat down to eat what did I spy?


Oh no...re-enactors!


More re-enactors! Great for the blog. I pushed the camera at my son and said, "chase them down and shoot them (with the camera of course)". Hey, I wasn't leaving my brat.


He went after them in hot pursuit while grumbling that they might not want to be photographed.


I yelled...."but they are re-enactors!" I mean, if they don't want to be photographed then who does?


And good old mama was right again!


These guys would have posed all day! This is what they live for.


There were many others in costume too.


No matter what their age.

I hope you enjoyed the trip to Zoar. I will be chronically our trip to Salem mid-October for anyone interested in all things witchy and New England.

I Can Make English Muffins and I am Polish!!!

Well, I am half Scotch and Welsh too so I guess that helped.



These are really fun to make.


After you cut them out you let them rise on cookie sheets coated in cornmeal.


Proofing in the oven.

They bake on an electric griddle for 7 minutes on each side.


Better than Wolferman's....sorry Wolferman's!!!



Ready to freeze.

RECIPE:

1/2 c. shortening
4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sugar
2 c. boiling water
2 packages instant dry yeast
5 c. flour

Put the sugar, salt and shortening in a large bowl. Pour the two cups of boiling water over all and stir until shortening melts. Let this cool to lukewarm. Stir in the yeast. Beat in the flour. Roll the dough on a lightly-floured surface to about half an inch thickness. Cut with a round cutter the size of a tuna can. Sprinkle cookie sheets with yellow cornmeal and place rounds on the sheets fairly far apart; these rise and you don't want them to touch. Let rise to double in bulk. Set griddle or electric fry pan to 350 degrees. Sprinkle cornmeal on the surface of the griddle, place muffins rounded side down and cook for seven minutes. Flip over and cook on other side for seven more minutes. Cool on racks and pack to freeze.

I doubled this recipe and got over three dozen.