09-22-16 19:18 NANCY BACKUS wrote to RUTH HAFFLY about Re: Food circumstances
Howdy! Nancy and Ruth,

Ruth said:

 RH>> We're in upper 80s now, lower predicted by the end of the week. Might
 RH>> get into the 70s by the end of the month, give the AC a break befire
 RH>> it's switched to heating. Time to start thinking about cooler weather
 RH>> cooking--soups, stews, etc. I think for a few more weeks we'll be
 RH>> doing easy do, multi meal (cook once, reheat portions as needed)
 RH>> cooking. I might be able to do Steve's birthday pumpkin pie by the end
 RH>> of October; I've got some pie crust disks in the freezer.

 NB>> Makes sense to keep things simple for now, while you are still
 NB>> healing... and stews and soups do lend themselves well to being
 NB>> reheated for later meals... :)
 NB>> The pie crusts are all rolled out, and ready to be put in the
 NB>> pans...?  Or do they still require some minimal rolling out...?

 RH> Some rolling and fitting to the pans is needed yet but the major part
 RH> of the work is done. Crimping is a 2 handed job tho.

When my wife was a youngster she didn't have any Shortening one day when
she was making Pie Dough and she used Oil.

The Oil didn't work as good that time as Shortening had for her.

A few years after we married, Procter and Gamble Co. started selling
Puritan Canola Oil and they offered some Recipes to use Puritan Oil with
if I Called (Wrote???) them to send them to me.

One of the Recipes was for Pie Dough.

She tried using that recipe and liked it, and still uses it.

She will put the dough in Aluminum Pie Pans and put them in the Freezer
in Zip Lock Bags, ready to use whenever she wants to make a Pie for us.

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My reason for writing today isn't about using Canola Oil to make Pie Dough,
it's about using something other than Wax Paper when rolling out the dough.

At the Dollar Tree store, in the Kitchen Tools area, they have a package
labled: "Set Of 2 Flexible CHOPPING MATS".

She uses them to roll out Pie Dough, Bread Dough, etc., then she washes
the "CHOPPING MATS" and keeps them in the kitchen cabinet so they can be
used whenever she wants to use them again.

A friend of ours cut one to fit in the bottom of their Bird's Cage.

Those MATS can probably be used for a lot of other jobs where a thin
piece of plastic is needed, I only remembered those two uses for them.

Hope this helps You, Ruth and anyone else reading this message when you
want to Roll some dough out.

Oh, one more thought about the MATS, one side is smooth the other side is
rough.

... Rotisserie:  A Ferris wheel for chickens.
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