Welp! It browned in several spots over night. Maybe because of the dirt? Or the heat gun? Or???
Next tests, I'll need to try a two layer method. (one with a lower layer of baking soda, and another with a toilet paper bottom. That should help to deduce if the dirt was the cause of it).
First issue I found, I needed to add a little water to the mixture so it would keep from pulling up the dirt as I tried to spread it on. Made it so I could just pour it over. Wtich means two things, I'll see how moisture reacts to it, and have to wait maybe two days for it to dry...which, if so, might make it really difficult in that I'll have to fill the unit with dirt before we move it (and it is quite heavy without the added dirt).
Update:
Well, I'll be damned. I used a heat gun and it dried up within seconds...Everything is back on schedule again, π
Although it's a pretty sheltered location, but wouldn't the baking soda dissipate with any moisture? Humidity, rain, and/or snow?
Edit: I just thought about it, and what I'll do is run an experiment. I can place some near my kitchen sink's handle. Water dripping from my hand and the humidity should give me a good idea how it'd work outside.
I used to drink root beer out of the licorice red vines, those held up quite well. Though, the lart was around seven years ago. I haven't seen blaok red vines in ages around these parts.
Have no idea if the red ones would have held up. Never liked those too much, heh, and other than root beer, birch beer, I'd drink coffee instead.
This...So much thie...but red vines rather than twizzler. They have a much bigger hole.
Oddly enough, they are kind of bland with honey. πΆ. Great with butter, though. Still trying to think of something else to try with them, but unfortunately brain is blank. Family won't help me clean, and am in quite a bit of pain, and being one of the major holiday cooks, I'm kind of stressing a bit, heh. Got so much to clean...I'll try to think of something to eat with these...I hope, heh.
Hmm! That does sound good.
Lets see.
1/2 c. buckwheat
1 c. unbleached flour
6 Tbls. buttermilk powder (It's what I happen to have, π€·ββοΈ ).
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 Tbls. Sugar
1/4 c. Ground pumpkin seeds.
Soften 1 tsp. yeast in 3/4 cup warm water. Mix all ingredients with 1 Tbls. melted butter. Let sit covered for an hour, then place in the fridge over night. Can add more flour the next day if it's too moist (Can't remember the liquid to dry ratios, but unimportant for the first part. I can adjust for more/less when necessary).
(update: Ok, that was the perfect amount of liquid. I'll touch up some more flour when I place it in the fridge...On the other hand. Should have been more pumpkin seeds, or less flours. Meh! Will have to do...maybe I'll find the will to grind more seeds up before I fry/bake it, heh).
And I would mix it today for a deeper flavor.
Slept pretty horribly last night which makes my pains worse, so I'll push it back for tomorrow. Which will give me a chance to let it sit.
Alrighty! I have time to think on it.
Types of dough. Sweet milk, sweet water, yeasty, caky, thick tortilla (pita like).
Sweet Milk : Almond, buckwheat, unbleached flours
Water based : Almond, Rye, Amaranth
https://youtu.be/hNQaBOHT0EE π€ Hmm! A sweet paratha? Pumpkin, sugar, pumpkin seed, nutmeg, and molasses filling. (Using a little almond flour to thicken it up).
https://youtu.be/0roB5cuotEw Then there's this 2 ingredient Sweet potato flatbread recipe that I could easily modify.
I'll plan out cooking it around noon CST tomorrow. So I've got plenty of time to figure out what I'll do, π
Like garbage.
GERD is pretty bad, my pains are pretty bad, which turns my brain into mush...which makes my anxiety and loneliness just aweful (in a bad marriage and spouse is off today).
Any one or a few of those things, I would be quite the opposite, but holy halibuts, Batman, the sheer quantity is just too much.
Also, getting ready for thanksgiving. I am one of the major cooks, and I'm fretting about cleaning up the kitchen...and the GERD and pain is going to make this hell. Oof! (wife never helped me in the kitchen, so I have to do everything, and it's just gotten sooo darn hard)
Ok! Try to think happy thoughts...so hard to breathe (GERD symptom).
Are you planning to publish the pattern or is it just a personal satisfaction type of project?
Oh, I'm definitely going to publish it. I want to test out a couple of things (as I'm wanting it to have at least three patterns. A cup cozy, a lidded bag, and a regular bag).
This is the first design I made, and i think it'd be a good one to add for a small simple bag.
Also, with a few modifications it'd make a cool hat, heh. Put a stem and some leaves on it? Oh heck yeah, π
I used to be, too, and still am registered as one (Only to keep myself from being counted as a Democrat or Republican which they love to lump Independents into them), but I've noticed the nonsense between 2008 and 2010 which is about the time the media focused on these pieces of human garbage over all the others.
I really don't see an easy fix, and most of what I've seen in history, it usually gets much much worse before it gets better.
Speaking of, I am spending way too much time on this, heh! I've got two hats and a pumpkin bag to knit, and a small painting to do ( Maybe more like these ). I'll just stick to a cloth of some kind, and let her touch it up how she wants. π€£ .