Have you ever heard of baking in those 14 - 16 oz veggie or fruit cans?
Yep, I am talking about the cans you get your veggies in at the store. This is a wonderful way to recycle those cans.
Well do I have a treat for you. This is a wonderful way to prepare individual servings of various recipes. They would be great to pack already prepared foods in a lunch bucket or to give as a mix per say as gifts in a can. The possibilities are endless. So save those cans and get ready for a new adventure in baking. I have several recipes that are just so yummy. Including but not limited to:
HONEY BUN CAKE to bake in a can
Date Nut Bread to bake in a Can
Spice Bread To Bake in a Can
How do those sound for starters? You save your cans and I will post some recipes. You can decorate your cans once they are cooled any way you want. Fun to have the kids to decorate some freezer paper cut to fit the outside of the can. Then just tape it on once your food is cold. Imagine your husband opening up his lunch bucket to find a cute can decorated by the kids and fresh homemade bread or cake baked by his loving wife.
Great to take to those Elderly people who are lonely when you visit them. They will remember you long after you have left when you leave a gift of food with them.
Have you ever heard of baking in a can?
Are you interested in some recipes to accomplish baking in a can?
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Hope you're doing well, Connie. I haven't been on gather much and I've missed you!
Yes, I have heard of it and have can-baked different types of small loaves of bread and cakes in small coffee cans. They were gorgeous! The texture was wonderful and I must say, they were delicious. I would be very interested in your recipes. It's a great way to bake!!!
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I have to run up to the moonshine still and then I will check on that road kill in a can for you. LOL
I have posted alot of homemade mixes including gifts in a jar over the year that I have been here.
It is time we teach them to recycle and not waste so much. The land of plenty is not going to have plenty forever.
I took a group of young women to camp one summer and we did these as well as the candles. They loved it. Camping is an experience that teaches young people many skills that they will need to survive before to long. I worry as so many people camp where they have power and can sleep in a camper. The youth do not learn as much this way.
I once heard a chef say that cooking is a grown up way of playing in the sand. I think that camping is the same thing for the middle and later years of childhood.
There is nothing better than having to rely on the evening campfire for power (although we did have battery operated flashlights). It has a way of bonding everyone together as we warm up before sliding into our sleeping bags for the night. Wow, Connie, you bring back memories. Now, I want to go camping.
We took our children camping every summer until they left home for college. We built a campfire and cooked on it. They fished and I fried them. LOL We did have a tent in later years but in the beginning we just slept in the back of the open truck bed. It was a bonding experience. We would just drive miles down a dirt road and set up camp along the river. Nobody lived for miles away and we usually did not see anyone except other family members that would come about supper time to roast weiners on sticks and sit around the campfire and talk. I love it.
We bathed in the river too.
What about the re-heating of the can - doesn't it release some negative chemicals?
(Wishful thinking on my part) rofl
This makes it a little easier.
Love the recipes you've posted too.