Congratulations! That sounds huge! I have one I love that does about 8 quarts at a time. Sometimes I have to do 2 or 3 batches, but that is pretty infrequent. Hope you get many good things cooking soon!One 23-quart pressure canner is winging its way to me. Now I just need to convince my loved ones to give me canning jars as birthday/Yule presents
I was looking into the history of the U.S. Dollar, and our first "official" dollar coin was the "Milled Spanish Dollar" (AKA Pieces of Eight) which was technically a Spanish Peso, a silver coin marked Eight Reales, minted in the Spanish colonies and widely available in the colonies thanks to piracy of the Spanish galleons transporting the coins to Spain.I think it’s cool to think about the history these coins have been through.
Congratulations! That sounds huge! I have one I love that does about 8 quarts at a time. Sometimes I have to do 2 or 3 batches, but that is pretty infrequent. Hope you get many good things cooking soon!
Our heater was out. It was a dirty flame sensor ( never heard of it). We might look into getting our a/c air filter moved from our kitchen ceiling to the attic. The door to the filter always wants to come down. We have to secure it with postage tape. It’s a pain to change the filter. It will depend on how close they can get the filter to the attic door. Neither of us wants to go up in the attic for anything.
Really interesting bits of history Doc! Every coin has a unique story behind it and have always been fun to me to learn about. I used to have a pillar dollar, the second picture above. Nicknamed, as those are the pillars of Hercules. It was officially recognized as legal tender for the US before we started making our own coins.I was looking into the history of the U.S. Dollar, and our first "official" dollar coin was the "Milled Spanish Dollar" (AKA Pieces of Eight) which was technically a Spanish Peso, a silver coin marked Eight Reales, minted in the Spanish colonies and widely available in the colonies thanks to piracy of the Spanish galleons transporting the coins to Spain.
When the U.S. "Dollar" was defined by law, they took a number of Spanish Milled Dollars in circulation, weighed them, and got the average weight, then defined a "Dollar" as containing the same quantity of silver. Milled Spanish Dollars remained legal tender, concurrent with U.S. Silver Dollars until the Coinage Act of 1857.
One Reale coins were called "bits." But One Reale coins were rare in the colonies because only Eight Reale coins were shipped to Spain, so you made change by cutting the Eight Reale coin in halves, quarters and eighths (bits). This is why a quarter is called "two bits" and it's also why the Spanish Milled Dollars were sometimes called "Pieces of Eight." Earlier Eight Reale coins were crudely hammer struck instead of milled and are the ones portrayed in pirates movies.
The reason they were called "Spanish Dollars" was because it was of similar size to an earlier coin used by the colonists, the Dutch Daalder, also known as the "Lion Dollar" which itself was called a Daalder because it was of similar size to the Austrian "thaler" which was a widespread standard for silver coins in Europe ("Daalder" is the Dutch translation of "Thaler", "Dollar" is the English translation of "Daalder")
Hammer Struck Peso (Pirate's Pieces of Eight)
Milled Peso (Spanish Milled Dollar or Pieces of Eight)
Daalder (Dutch Lion Dollar)
Austrian Thaler
All the way up to 1857 in fact.It was officially recognized as legal tender for the US before we started making our own coins.
I frequently ask for canning jars for birthday and Christmas. It is the one item that is always a given when my family has no clue what to get me and they know they will be used. I have quite a collection, but really I don't think you can ever have too many. I even store my dehydrated and freeze dried items in them now that I have an attachment to suck out air for my vacuum sealer.One 23-quart pressure canner is winging its way to me. Now I just need to convince my loved ones to give me canning jars as birthday/Yule presents
I frequently ask for canning jars for birthday and Christmas. It is the one item that is always a given when my family has no clue what to get me and they know they will be used. I have quite a collection, but really I don't think you can ever have too many. I even store my dehydrated and freeze dried items in them now that I have an attachment to suck out air for my vacuum sealer.
The promise of filled jars of goodies is definitely one way to go . . . Hunnys boss sent me a case of 1/2 pint jars when he heard Mayhaws were starting to come in season. I got the hint. Some people give you your jars back but he prepared, others do not. People I know well, I threaten bodily harm, just sayingAh, that gives me hope - thank you They're quite pricey here in the UK, but building up my stock bit-by-bit (and gift-by-gift!) is the way forward.
I stock up when there is a sale, even bought some from Walmart on line. They run about a US dollar apiece. I agree with Danil, you can never have too many!Ah, that gives me hope - thank you They're quite pricey here in the UK, but building up my stock bit-by-bit (and gift-by-gift!) is the way forward.
About the same here too Mav. We had rain all day yesterday, which is very unusual at our elevation, then it turned to snow. We've gotten about a foot of new snow so far today, and snow is expected every day for another week. I managed to push the snow banks a little further off the road yesterday so I'll have room for this new snow.We been prepping all week getting ready for the weather. Been snowing since last night, supposed to go through next weekend, we should be going into the single digit tonight into the early morning, this should be our pattern for the week. It's a very dry snow about the size or in between a 50c piece and a silver dollar, we put the chains on last night, pump houses are warm and the stables ready.
I found solid wood cabinets tossed out on the side of the road shortly after buying this place. We ended up putting them in hunny workshop. It's hard to pass up that kind of deal and who can't use more storage options.Haven't gotten too much done around the new place lately. Darn car repairs taking all our extras lately. But did score some free cabinets. They may or may not replace the ones in the kitchen. If nothing else, will store then for future shop. Can always use cabinets.
Otherwise, just waiting til we have enough dough to get the electricity people to come connect us. Once we have some juice out there things will move much quicker.
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