Cooking & Baking

with green onions and tabasco. 2# of beans made 7 pints of beans (no rice), of which 5 are canned and put away in the pantry. We had half of the rest 2 nights ago, and most of the rest tonight. The remainder will make a nice breakfast on a work day.

Dessert was the first still-hot slices of a new loaf of bread. I needed to use up the last of the mashed sweet potatoes and that sort of thing (or pumpkin or squash) makes a very good addition to dough. The sugars help it rise really well, the flavor is good and the final color is a nice gold.