{"id":3622,"date":"2013-11-06T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2013-11-06T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T08:00:46","slug":"its-rainy-its-cold-but-it-isnt-snowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/11\/06\/its-rainy-its-cold-but-it-isnt-snowing\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s rainy, it’s cold, but it isn’t snowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weather’s getting progressively nastier so I’m finding plenty to do inside, despite all we have to do outside. Yesterday was relatively decent but windy so Will (with his bad cold) and I split and brought a whole big truckload of firewood into the house to stack on the back porch for our emergency wood for winter. We will do another truckload or two later on when it isn’t raining!<\/p>\n

\"Flat-Dutch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’ve been chopping up all those great cabbages we grew this year. Wow, what a crop, even when the deer got in and munched on half of them. While we were in Illinois, David took the wheelbarrow down and cut the good cabbages and brought them into the house. Yesterday I chopped a five-gallon bucket’s worth and made sauerkraut. It’s always amazing just how many cabbage heads will fit into a five-gallon pail! Of course I pack the heck out of it with a potato masher, adding salt to each layer then pounding it well. It sure compacts as I go. I got more than 10 big heads (less big leaves and cores) into one bucket. Now it’s setting on the floor by the dining room table with a double layer of Saran Wrap and a bag of brine weighting that down, to exclude air. That way I don’t have to skim scum every couple of days! In a few weeks or so, I’ll be canning sauerkraut.<\/p>\n

\"Danish-Ballheads\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I’m just cutting cabbage into wedges to can up plain. We use a lot of canned cabbage. I always dump out the canning liquid and heat in fresh water as this makes it taste much fresher. And tomorrow, God willing and the creek don’t rise, I’m starting in on making a big batch of Amish coleslaw to can (basically sweet\/sour pickled cabbage shreds with carrot shreds for color). I use a lot of this in stir fries, egg rolls, etc. as well as using it for plain coleslaw. Whew, I’d better get at it! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our weather’s getting progressively nastier so I’m finding plenty to do inside, despite all we have to do outside. Yesterday was relatively decent but windy so Will (with his bad cold) and I split and brought a whole big truckload of firewood into the house to stack on the back porch for our emergency wood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}