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Post by cornhusker007 on Jun 4, 2014 8:40:55 GMT -5
I always assume when a recipe calls for shortening it means a solid fat like Crisco, oleo or lard.
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Post by grano on Jun 4, 2014 9:35:15 GMT -5
Agree with cornhusker. In baking, shortening is solid fat, which can also include butter. Oil is normally not a good substitute.
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Post by starry on Jun 4, 2014 13:25:51 GMT -5
Planted 400 'cascade ruby gold' flint corn and 100 'astronomy domine'. Have yet to plant some 'glass gem x popcorn' , 'popcorn x early sweet corn' and some seed from ecuador.
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Post by RpR on Jun 9, 2014 12:34:43 GMT -5
What a difference from last year, my first planting is up and doing well, including plants from packets that last year had miserable germination.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 10, 2014 15:16:07 GMT -5
My black corn is tasseling. Oh I like this corn. Early early early. Lots of tillers. Sorry Joseph, too short for you. I don't have racoons, but the neighbors goats are a pita. They've gotten out 3x and head immediately for my garden. Please forward recipes for Birria. I swear I'm going to eat them. So on the funny side, I was showing a kid seeds in my garden. He picked up dried goat droppings and put them in his pocket. He wanted to know if they were magic seeds of some sort. I said I didn't recognize those seeds. When his father smelt them, oh it was a hoot.
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Post by steev on Jun 10, 2014 16:21:27 GMT -5
Those are "smart pills". If you think they taste like crap, you're getting smarter.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jul 19, 2014 9:52:51 GMT -5
Flour corn is looking pretty good. Very good overlap of silking in the transplanted Coroico and tassels from my pollinator rows. This was the first time I've ever engaged in de-tasselling and I was overzealous. I've found now it is best to wait till the tassel is exerted enough to get a decent grip on the main mass. When I tried to remove tassels when I first saw them in the whorl, I very often either broke off the tip of the tassel or pulled the top 4 or 5 leaves off the plant along with the tassel. On the job training.
The Cateto responded much less happily to transplanting than the Coroico. Many are tasselling much earlier than I would have hoped, with the plants only 3 feet tall or so and the tassel reduced to a single unbranched spike. I think I have enough mother plants that may overlap with the flint corn, but far far less than in my flour corn patch.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jul 29, 2014 13:27:44 GMT -5
Took some pictures for maicerochico, thought some of them would be interesting to share here. Some of the Coroico plants have these odd ears with very long shanks. In this pic you can see two plants with very different lengths of shank, the actual ear is pretty close to the same size between them. Here's another pic of a super long shank ear. My index finger is right at the butt of the ear, there's about 18' down to the node attachment on the stalk. I'm excited to see what the ears look like, I've had very excellent pollen overlap with all my detasselled Coroico, and plenty of time to get it dried down, so I hope to have a great supply of CoroicoXWhite Flour Grex hybrid seed for next year. It's been really interesting to see the Coroico and how unusual it is for me, super fun corn stuff this year.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 29, 2014 21:42:25 GMT -5
I posted a prelim review of Kaanga Pango corn here. foothillfarm.blogspot.com/I'd post it here, but the loading of photos since the change of the site, is just too hard.
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Post by philagardener on Jul 30, 2014 7:14:45 GMT -5
12540dumont , what beautiful corn! That seems really productive, drought-tolerant and wonderfully colored. Can't wait to hear how it tastes!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 6, 2014 22:54:48 GMT -5
And once again at foothillfarm.blogspot.com/ I posted a review of Isola di Este. By the way, the Gremlin corn Dar sent will be reviewed longly. I've had to purchase an orchard ladder... And the winner by a long shot....
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Post by oxbowfarm on Sept 23, 2014 13:58:07 GMT -5
Got almost all of my seed ears harvested and drying in the house. White Flour Grex Coroico Cateto Sulino Don't have a picture of this years flint corn yet. Overall this has been a cold, wet year and I had a very severe outbreak of Northern Leaf blight. Coroico appears to have a very high level of resistance to NLB, for those interested in breeding disease resistant flour corns.
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Post by flowerweaver on Sept 23, 2014 15:49:39 GMT -5
Beautiful corn!
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Post by jondear on Sept 27, 2014 17:51:22 GMT -5
You've got some very cool corn genetics there Tim. I can almost smell the corn bread.
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