Prairie Primer Big Woods: week2

This week has been a slow week for us. Sky has been sick all week with strep-throat. Also, Benji came home which always throws us off schedule. We managed  to do a few things,though.

First we made some more butter- this time trying the carrot coloring. It worked but wasn't quite the color I'd have liked. Here's Denim helping to grate the carrots. She really liked that part. Afterwards, she was being silly and ate a few of the leftover pieces of carrots that we'd cooked in the milk. According to her they were very tasty.

Next, they measured out the cream

After we'd shaken it while listening to our lesson we had to wash the butter.

The butter turned out great. I'm thinking from now on I'll start letting the kids make real butter on holidays as a way to let them help with dinner.

We also tried the Molasses on Snow candy.



Denim helped by keeping the molasses mixture stirred



We found the molasses at a local grocer. When I was asking for it the older lady was like Wow, we haven't had anyone ask for that in ages. Now, I'm not big on molasses but I have to say I really like it on biscuits. The kids tried it but weren't fond of it either. Still, they wanted to make the candy.

Using the snow cone maker Sky made some shaved ice for our "snow".

We drizzled the molasses mixture on the snow, it was very hard to make squiggles and curlicues though.

I think we drizzled it too thin. Also, it didn't harden well so I think either we cooked it too long or the snow wasn't cold enough. It didn't turn out well. The kids were able to taste it though and said it was disgusting.It made them very grateful for their modern candy!

Finally, we made little tin candle shades like the ones Laura spoke of. She was fascinated by how pretty the light shown through and so were Denim and Sky!

Denim was pounding her nails into her tin.

A finished candle shade.

Hopefully next week we can be more productive.