Ice Cream - Keepers

Our first Keepers meeting this year was held at Aunt Rebekah's home where we learned different ways to make the delicious treat of Homeade Ice-Cream.

The attentive class :)

We made several different kids of Ice-creams using different methods.

 Ever shake your own ice cream?

Add 1 T. of sugar, 1/2 C. milk, and 1/4 t. vanilla into a small Ziploc bag.

Put your ice cream mixture into a gallon Ziploc bag halfway filled with ice and 6 T. of rock salt.

After shaking for five minutes you will have a nice little bag of Vanilla ice cream!  If you're a chocolate fan just add a teaspoon of Hershey chocolate powder to your small bag!

Mixing and shaking....Shake that ice cream, Abigail! lol

 

 

Anna and Hope with their bags of ice cream :)

 Elainah got to add the green food coloring for our mint-chocolate chip ice cream.

This time we let the machine crank it for us!

 Making a delicious strawberry sorbet in the Vitamix

 Zoe and Lillia serving up some strawberry sorbet!

Joshua and Lincoln decided that hand-shook ice cream was too much of a treat to miss out on!

 they also tried the mint chocolate chip ice cream :)

Thanks for a great meeting Aunt Rebekah!! You did an awesome job teaching us all about ice cream!!

 



A Picnic at the Bahner Farm

I'm a bit behind on my blog postings so this is another event that we enjoyed last week :)

 

We traveled out to the Bahner Farm in western PA this past Saturday for their annual picnic.

 Nathan and Sarah with Benjamin

 We always have a fun time with our friends!

 Kittens abound on farms!

 And there's always fun games of barnyard volleyball!
Nice air there, Lillia! :P

 Elainah and David with their friend Joy

 

 

Hay Creek Festival

This past Friday we went to the annual Hay Creek Festival at the Historic Joanna Furnace near Morgantown, PA.  Each year over 1500 volunteers bring the iron making community of Joanna Furnace back to life.  There are traditional crafts, living history presentations, vintage working equipment, classic steam and gas engines, antique vehicles and tractors for all to see and enjoy during the three day event.

Watching how books were bound back in the 18th century...
The binding process back then was much more complex and time consuming then today's.
Hand sewing the pages together made the completion of one book take approximately 10 hours. 



handquilting...
 

Making sauerkraut...an interesting little tid-bit we learned was unless you use Kosher or Sea-Salt your cabbage will turn brown.



Elainah tamping down the cabbage...



David taking a turn...



Benjamin hanging out in his sling... 



outdoor cooking...



 

weaving tea-towels on a loom
 

Joshua got to make "paper" from old linen rags



Lillia and Hope got to write their names in calligraphy



 

There was also a ventriloquist show
 

an old-fashioned bailer 



A 1930 Packard 7 passenger touring car... I can't imagine traveling in one of those with our family!



This little John Deere was remote controlled

 Pretty cool! :D

 Joshua, Lillia, and Hope made their own ropes!