Rye, not only for food

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I picked up a tid bit today while watching a documentary.  A very traditional paint used in scandinavian countries combines mineral color (hardware store) like iron red with water and rye flour.  Said to last 50 years.   I think it familiar with "Barn Red" in color. 

I knew that sticky rye flour was good for some major jobs. 

that it's used in paintings restorations, too.

The more you know it the more you love it!

From what I was reading under rye paint...  some boiled linseed oil is in the outdoor formula and applied to the surface every 10 years to freshen it up. 

How about using just boiled linseed oil?  Rye is most likely a sunblocker and we sure do need our vitamine sunshine!  …Night cream?  …After our sourdough facials?   Lol!

Toast

Do you or Karin have a linzer cookie recipe.?  I spilled water all over my old (antique?) cookie recipe.  Help ( this really is an old recipe because it used hirsch horn salts) Thanks

Pam

I have quite a few recipes, some with nuts, some without.  This year I mixed up Stan & Norm's recipe.  The dough is chilling as I type. 

Mil uses Ischler Bäckerei recipe

300g Flour, 250g Butter, 140g Sugar, 170g Hazelnuts roasted & ground, 1 knife point of ground Cinnamon.  Jam and powdered sugar to finish.   Covered and chilled at least 1 hour in fridge or overnight in a cool room.  Knead the dough lightly before rolling out 3mm thick.   210°C middle oven position 8-10 minutes  lightly brown edges. 

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Another recipe uses 250g Butter, 250g Flour, 120g peeled and grated Almonds, 120g Sugar, 1Tbs lemon juice.   Bake in a medium oven.

Then to fill 200g apricot or red current jam, powdered sugar. 

Mini

The first one sounds like the one I "wanted"   

Pam

why my grandmother said that she didn't miss the good ole days...not even one tiny bit.

Pam

Pam !!  :)   Especially as I get older, I try to remember just what my poor grandmother went through. A tiny person, barely 5', all these hard and cumbersome chores and I gripe at the most minor inconveniences.

 

 

Toast

Thank you so much.  I spent a wonderful Christmas in a small German town many years ago. Make that many, many years ago. A friend from France took me to her home for Christmas. We went from house to house and had coffee or gluevine (sp)  I have a dozen carefully translated recipes.  After the water disaterr, I took them and scanned them.. Safe forever. I understand you are in Austria now. Have a wonderful time. Frolhiche Weinachten.  

Pam