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brighteyesk9
Farmgirl in Training
35 Posts
Alta
Florida
USA
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 Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 1:41:28 PM
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I keep some of the tin cans that veggies come in. Then I let the boys bake sweet breads in them. This way the boys can bake without messing up my good pans. And the little round loafs are so darn cute.
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2007 : 1:48:01 PM
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| I thought when I first read this that you meant sweetbreads instead of sweet breads. It was a relief to see you mention little round loaves!! |
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Tammy Claxton
True Blue Farmgirl
1559 Posts
Tammy
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2007 : 4:52:09 PM
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| I use my old veggie cans as luminaries around the holidays. I punch holes in them to make a pattern like a tree, a bell, etc... Then I put in a votive and put them on my porch. Ohhhhh, ahhhhhh. |
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brighteyesk9
Farmgirl in Training
35 Posts
Alta
Florida
USA
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Posted - Aug 17 2007 : 6:07:06 PM
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That's a neat idea for the votives. Now I am trying to figure out what I can do with the lids from spam and other peal off lids. Any suggestions?
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janetinva123
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Janet
newport news
va
USA
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Carolinagirl
True Blue Farmgirl
486 Posts
Kim
Rutherfordton
NC
USA
486 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 06:37:38 AM
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Alta, I've been saving the lids off of those frozen juice containers for years. I plan on using them to make windchimes or mobiles for outside. Will the lids you are talking about work for something like that?
I'm trying the bread thing! Do you just grease them up and pop them in the oven like a regular pan?
Thanks-
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brighteyesk9
Farmgirl in Training
35 Posts
Alta
Florida
USA
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 07:13:18 AM
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These lids are very thin and very bendable and they can be cut really easy. I thought about somehow hammering them together and maybe making tree faces or even some type of bird bath or fountain.
Yes - you just grease the cans, either with bacon grease or with a non stick spray and then you pour the batter into the can and bake. I have found that it takes a little longer to bake them but the are pretty when they come out round and the kids love them.
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brighteyesk9
Farmgirl in Training
35 Posts
Alta
Florida
USA
35 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 07:14:54 AM
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I have also saved a few of the spam cans. I think they will make cute little loaves of sweetbreads or even meat loaf. I haven't used them yet but I will.
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brighteyesk9
Farmgirl in Training
35 Posts
Alta
Florida
USA
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Posted - Aug 18 2007 : 07:29:31 AM
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Great idea on the pictures of us making the breads - I will see what I can come up with and let you all know.
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 07:47:12 AM
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| What great ideas! I am thinking now! |
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newheart
True Blue Farmgirl
471 Posts
Margie
Owings Mills
Maryland
USA
471 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 10:40:37 AM
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I have for many years saved the smaller coffee cans and for the Holidays I baked breads and cakes and whatever in them... and cover them with Christmas wrapping paper, put plastic lid back on ..glue some gift tie on it, and give them to neighbors and teachers and friends..Only thing they have to do is use a can opener to open bottom of can and slide round cake,bread etc out...Nothing like Strawberry bread or fresh blueberry bread with coffee on a snowy winter day...
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 11:05:44 AM
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I bought a box of old small kitchen items at an auction this summer. In the box I found about a half dozen homemade biscuit cutters fashioned from the bottoms of old tin cans. They all had little holes punched in the bottoms. That was good creative recycling! I kept a few and put the rest in my booth in the antique mall.
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 2:26:37 PM
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Originally posted by Tammy Claxton
I use my old veggie cans as luminaries around the holidays. I punch holes in them to make a pattern like a tree, a bell, etc... Then I put in a votive and put them on my porch. Ohhhhh, ahhhhhh.
Hey, Glen Burnie! I used to live in Harundale. Went to Glen Burnie Elementary -- waaaay back in the 50s. Got my Girl Scout stuff at Robinson's. Loved it there.
I learned to do luminaries like that from a friend and her daughters, who said they fill them with water and freeze them before punching the holes. Don't leave them in the freezer and forget about them, though, as I did (ADD strikes again!) because the bottoms puff out.
You're right --- very pretty effect at night, and reusable, unlike luminaria made with sand in sandwich bags. |
Edited by - Rosemary on Aug 22 2007 2:27:20 PM |
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Garden_artist
True Blue Farmgirl
182 Posts
Tammy
Southern Coast Oregon
182 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 3:04:43 PM
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When I was in Skagway, we saw the neatest idea. Someone used their vegetable & coffee can lids. They layered them up electical poles in their yard like fish scales, the largest ones on the bottom, and made the bottom of the pole look like the bottom of a palm tree. It was really cool. If i can find my pictures I will post them.
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Tammy Claxton
True Blue Farmgirl
1559 Posts
Tammy
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 5:25:39 PM
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Hey Rosemary!
It's nice to find someone who knows where I am! lol. I am only a couple miles from Harundale in Point Pleasant. Robinson'sis now a culinary arts school. Glen Burnie Elementary is now called Glendale Elem. It's so crowded here now with car lots, restaraunts, and stores. No square inch has been left alone! Anyway, nice to meet you!Take care. Oh, thanks for the advice of freezing some water in the cans..great idea!
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2008 : 2:05:15 PM
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I never thought to use tuna cans for big cupcakes. I've been searching for a large-cup muffin pan for a while now. I don't need to look anymore. I'm using that one!
I have various tin cans that hold cooking/baking utensils, pens and pencils, buttons and plants. I use the "used" mason jar lids to mark my garden plants.
Farmgirl Sister #35
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2245 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
2245 Posts |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 4:16:27 PM
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We used to nail can lids over the knot holes in the chicken coop to keep the mice and rats from getting in at night and eating the feed.
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
1360 Posts
Laurie
Montrose
CO
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Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 5:52:00 PM
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OH!!! I love the idea of using the used mason lids for your garden! I never knew what to do with those and just tried to recycle them.
For the sweat bread recipe, how does that work. Do you just use a regular recipe and pour into the tin instead? i love this website!
Best Growing |
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aimeeravae
True Blue Farmgirl
341 Posts
Aimee
Deer River
MN
USA
341 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 7:37:51 PM
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I am collecting up the various size cans I use. I have been saving them all. I am going to make the nail caddy in the ideabook for the teacher gifts this year. The neph-manys and I are going to cover them with wallpaper and fabric samples dicarded from an interior design firm. The entire project will be repurpose, but they can use them for paintbrushes and rulers. Markers, pencils anything their heart desires. I try to give a useful room gift.
At least its something they can use. My Dad was the maintenence superviser at a school district in the Cities. He loved the day of the class parties. The teachers threw out most of the gifts. Could you imagine how much stuff they could get stuck with if they kept it all? He would collect it up with the custodians and they would give it all to a local nursing home for the people who didn't have close family. They at least would get a gift.
Aimee
Aimee
http://laplantewardklopf.blogspot.com/ Motto To Live By
"Life should NOT be a jouney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!" |
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nampafarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
494 Posts
Kim
Nampa
ID
USA
494 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 10:16:46 AM
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I have used tuna cans for making a the samller of a top of cake for a small cake, think of graduated cake pans.
I have used various sized cans for making breads as well. This way you can make enough for friends, neighbors as chrsitmas gifts at the same time.
Regarding lids, I have a hand held can opener,(got it from pampared chef) that takes the lids off without cutting it off, it breaks the seal from the can and you can actually run your fingers along the edge and not get cut. I bought one for when we went camping, I didnt want little critters getting into the garbage cans and cutting their mouths. You can use this type of lid to tin punch. When the kids were samll or when we did a VBS, I have given the kids small hammers and nails and they make tin punch xmas ornaments, hang them in their windows, I tie rope or ribbon as a hangar. You can use juice can lids for the same purpose.
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JojoNH
True Blue Farmgirl
1984 Posts
Joanna
Dunbarton
New Hampshire
USA
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Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 6:51:47 PM
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Some great ideas for using the tin cans! I use mine ( all different sizes) for starting all my seeds indoors. The super large ones are for plants that I intend to keep on my front porch all summer. I have successfully grown cherry tomatoes, green peppers, catnip, beef steak tomatoes and rosemary all in large tin cans.
Joanna
JojoNH
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 7:28:10 PM
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Joanna,
I like to use the black & white pages from Shumway's Garden Catalog (very antique looking) and glue them on the outside of the cans. It looks cute!
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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Lorie Marler
True Blue Farmgirl
265 Posts
Lorie
Guymon
Ok
USA
265 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 7:36:20 PM
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| I have a tin man made out of vegetable, sardine, and coffee cans that we totally adore. My oldest loves the Wizard of Oz and on vacation several years ago we found a house out in the country that had several Tin man's hanging on the fence with a For sale sign and a drop box for us to put the money in. He is so awesome and hangs in my laundry room. |
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Merry
True Blue Farmgirl
765 Posts
Merry
Ankeny
Iowa
USA
765 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2009 : 8:07:11 PM
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Originally posted by Lorie Marler
I have a tin man made out of vegetable, sardine, and coffee cans that we totally adore. My oldest loves the Wizard of Oz and on vacation several years ago we found a house out in the country that had several Tin man's hanging on the fence with a For sale sign and a drop box for us to put the money in. He is so awesome and hangs in my laundry room.
 cute!
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JojoNH
True Blue Farmgirl
1984 Posts
Joanna
Dunbarton
New Hampshire
USA
1984 Posts |
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