Comfort Food Event



Making "Comfort Food" at LIFT April 18

 “Thy loving kindness is better than life.” Psalm 63:3

April 18: Comfort Food

We began our spring LIFT event with prayer and devotion. Following that Char Graybill demonstrated making home-made bread and each lady filled a colorful jar of “Love Soup Mix.”

Lori shared from Psalm 63. “Thy loving kindness is better than life, thus will I praise thee.”

- Changes can be overwhelming and cloud our view of God’s loving kindess.

- “Pitty Pies:” Sometimes we can fill one pie shell – sometimes we can fill a bakery truck full of pies!!

- It’s not easy being a Christian lady but we need to remember that “our soul follow hard after thee.”

- We were encouraged by Lori’s words and the words of another mother that shared from an experience recently in her life where she felt God’s loving kindness.



Thy Loving Kindess Is Better Than Life

 

Many mothers added their helpful hints
 to the bread making demonstration.

Char Graybill shared an old family recipe for Home Made Bread.

- The smell of baking bread is very comforting

- Home made bread is healthy and delicious

- Making bread speaks of a kinder, warmer time of life

Helpful hints:

- If possible, use a bread machine to kneed the bread, then transfer to baking pan.


Home made bread speaks of a
kinder, warmer time of life.

- It is best to use bread flour. You can keep your flour in the freezer. Test to see if your flour is good by tipping the bag sideways, if you see webs, it’s time to discard it.

- To kneed the dough: pull over, punch down, turn, repeat – “Fold and Turn.” Kneed for about 5 minutes. The dough should be stretchy. Do a “thumb test” if you press your thumb in the dough, the mark should go away.

- For faster rising: You can let the dough rise in the oven for 1 Hour at 150 degrees

- If the top of your bread gets dark, you can put foil on the bread for the last 10 minutes.

 - Make wheat bread by substituting 1 CUP bread flour with 1 CUP wheat flour. 

Char shared her family's recipe for Home Made Bread



Ingredients for
"Love Soup Mix"

Looking for more good “Soup In A Jar” recipes?
Check out allrecipe.com

How Exciting:

- By passing around the WAR International Baby bottle monthly, we raised $57.43 for WAR Intl'. http://warinternational.org/

- Ladies from LIFT are planning to go to Women of Faith from Sept. 7-8. Let Judy know if you would like to come along. http://www.womenoffaith.com/

- Mark your calendars: “Purely Pretty” will be held Sat. May 19 at Locust Run United Methodist Church. Call Lyndsay for more info. 535-0070.

NEXT MONTH:

We will be meeting at the park on May 16 for an End of the Year Picnic and Perennial swap. See you then!!