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Isabella continues to have an interest in Laura Ingalls and her series of stories.

We are reading Little House in the Big Woods.

Bella has built several log cabins using lincoln logs. She has dressed as close to a pioneer girl as she could and continues to enjoy making up Laura like stories.

 

Today we learned about churning butter. You can learn about different ways to churn butter at this site.

Here is the recipe we are following:

Churning Butter
Little House Crafts & Activities

Supplies:

• Baby food or mayonaise jar
• whipped cream

Instructions:

1. Choose a day when it is not very hot outside, or do this activity indoors.
2. Working alone or with a friend so your arms do not get tired, put cream into the jar (approx one tablespoon of cream for a small baby food jar).
3. Start shaking! After fifteen to twenty minutes of vigorous shaking, you should have a lump of butter in your jar.
4. Enjoy it on a slice of bread like Laura did.

http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/crafts/churnbutter.html

 

I also enjoyed reading this page on churning butter.

Bella is expanding her vocabulary. Bella isn’t impressed with the range of meat that the Ingalls ate and has said “gross” as we read about making headcheese and pig tail. I will admit that these do not sound appealing to me either.

We also made soup, a concoction of taters, turkey, broth, carrots and celery. While not a strict pioneer recipe, soup was a mainstay of the time.

We are also making Johnny Cake.

Johnny Cakes
Little House Crafts & Activities

Supplies:

• 1 cup corn meal
• 1 teaspoon raw sugar
• 1 tbsp. salt
• ½ cup water
• 1 lb. of bacon

Instructions:

1. In a bowl, mix the corn meal with the salt and sugar.
2. Add water and mix until you get a nice paste. Form the paste into patties and set aside.
3. Fry bacon. Remove bacon and fry the cakes in the bacon grease until golden brown.
4. Wrap the patties in brown paper and then again in brown wax paper. 

From On the Banks of Plum Creek

http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/recipes/johnnycakes.html

 

 

 

We are beginning to learn and research.

Here are some links

Laura’s Official Site

PDf site

Another Site   recipes and other fun stuff

And another site

I haven’t reviewed these sites- once I have looked over them with Bella we can add more information.

(While not a fan of worksheets they are sometimes fun- )

 

 

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by karen
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