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Page 14 • September 29, 2011 • Mountain Mail • mountainmailnews.com HIGH COUNTRY GARDENING Salsa is easy to make from a variety of garden vegetables. Eat it fresh or can some up for a bit of winter sunshine. Photo courtesy of Anna Lear By Anna Lear Welcome, gardeners, and many thanks for the kind comments and letters recently! This month I’ll focus on two better bets: putting up summer vegetables and harvesting and storing winter squash. Freezing, canning, and drying are great ways to store garden bounty for the winter. This summer I’ve canned pickles and relish (using summer squash in place of the cucumbers I didn’t get this year), salsa, and tomato sauce, and I plan to dry my smaller roma tomatoes at the end of the season. Freezing works well for squash, beans, corn (off the cob), and other fairly solid vegetables; these will unfreeze and cook up much better than tomatoes, tomatillos, and other soft types. Peppers and onions freeze well if you chop before freezing and plan to thaw them and cook them until soft. Spinach, chard, and herbs also freeze well for later cooking, packaged either as whole leaves whole or chopped. If you’re not totally tired of summer squash, you can pick and prepare a bushel for freezing in just an hour or two. A food processor with a slicer/grater blade slices them quickly; layer two cups of slices into sandwich-sized plastic zip bags to freeze for winter calabacitas, goulash, and soups. I also grate my larger zucchini (a food processor zips through even the 7-pounders) and freeze it in 2-cup portions for zucchini bread and fritters throughout the winter. As inundated as I’ve been with summer squash lately, I know I’ll miss it in a few months… probably. Harvesting and storing winter squash correctly can take your crop (or those farmers market goodies) well into winter. Pick squash when a good thump makes a hollow sound and the skin is fully colored: grey for Hubbard, greenish-black for acorn, bright orange for most pumpkins, yellow for spaghetti squash, tan with no green stripes for butternut, and yellow-orange with dark green stripes for Delicatas. The stem should be hard; cut it with scissors or a sharp knife and leave four inches to prevent later rotting. Before storing, wash gently in slightly soapy water, then wipe with a weak (10%) bleach solution to kill remaining mold or bacteria. If the squash does not appear or sound ripe but the plant has died, bring it in (leaving 4+ inches of stem on), wash and rinse as described above, and set it in a sunny window, turning the green sides to the sun as needed, until it appears ripe. Store winter squash without stacking (if possible), slightly spaced to permit air circulation, in a cool, dark, dry, ventilated place, preferably where the temperature is stable. Check regularly for decay or freezing. The squash should last at least a few months, certainly long enough for lots of holiday cooking. In the meantime, we still have two or so months before the ground freezes to plant garlic, a fall crop of greens, perennials, bulbs, and trees. Next month I’ll write more about fall planting and maintenance for perennials and trees, including ways to protect new and established plantings from extreme cold and drought. Our sunny autumn days are perfect for gardening, and planting trees and shrubs now helps them grow strong roots before next year’s spring winds and summer heat, so get out there and enjoy! Anna Lear lives and gardens in Magdalena and is currently a family therapy intern at Southwest Family Guidance Center in Albuquerque. She blogs about gardening, photography, jewelry, and life in Magdalena at http://thelaughingraven.blogspot.com/. Ricotta for Rookies By Nancy Newberry The Internet is alive with articles about homemade ricotta. If you make your own cheese, you will astonish your friends. The process walks a path between magic and science, and you will feel like a genius. The ricotta you buy is not good, and contains weird ingredients that do not sound like food. This recipe has two ingredients, milk and buttermilk, and they are both available in the village. So why haven’t you made any yet I can tell you why not: Ricotta is a gateway cheese, a slippery slope to cheese making as a habit. You might be only one pot away from goats in the yard. I can just see some of you trying to talk Tom Kelly into raising Jerseys. I say to that: do it anyway. We can deal with the consequences later. How does cheese work All cheese begins as milk; the process of coagulating milk by adding acid or a bacteria culture segregates the protein and fat as curds; leaving most of the water and some remaining protein in the whey. Making the simplest of fresh cheeses, ricotta, only involves adding acid and heat to milk. In this recipe, heat works with the acidic buttermilk to curdle the milk. Some may carp that this is not a traditional ricotta. True, it’s a shortcut method. The old way is to make it from whey, and even the very word means “re-cooked.” And there are other easy methods; some ricotta recipes use lemon juice or vinegar. It’s my opinion that these acids produce a tougher curd, and it is hard to banish the tang and fragrance of lemon or vinegar from the final cheese. This buttermilk recipe is my favorite, adapted from Michael Chiarello’s recipe in the New York Times (5/28/2008). Try it. Make a cheese fanatic happy. And use it in any recipe that calls for ricotta, if you don’t eat it with a spoon before it’s even cooled. Homemade Ricotta Cheese Creamy, tender, and mild, this homemade ricotta is terrific. You may never buy another plastic tub. Makes 4 cups 1 gallon whole milk 1 quart buttermilk Line a colander with a layer of clean, tightly-woven cotton muslin. Heat milk and buttermilk together over medium heat in a heavy-bottomed pot. Stir slowly with a plastic spoon or spatula, gently scraping the bottom of the pot, just often enough to keep milk from sticking. Check the temperature of the milk mixture every few minutes using a stem thermometer. The milk will begin to steam and expand once the temperature reaches 165 degrees F. As the temperature rises further, small flakes of curd will form and clump together. Stir rarely and very gently. At a temperature between 170 degrees F and 185 degrees F, the milk will break completely into fluffy white curds and whey, a mostly clear liquid with a yellowish cast. Ladle the curd tenderly with a slotted spoon into the cloth-lined colander. Allow to drain for about 15 minutes. Turn the curd into a bowl. Cover and refrigerate. Note: The whey can be used to replace water in some soups or bread making. 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Book: “Hoist A Cold One!” continued from front page purchased the bar from the Hiltons after a fire destroyed most of the hotelier’s store and saloon. Arduously moved to its current location, the grill behind this beautifully carved bar was the birthplace of the famous, award-winning Green Chile OwlBurger, created by Frank Chavez. Beloved by many, its recipe has remained the same since 1948. “Hoist a Cold One!” outlines the long ownership history of “The Cap” (now owned by JoAnna and Earl DeBrine), woven with stories of well-known characters who have placed their elbows on the oak bar: legendary lawman and gunman Elfego Baca, the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb at Trinity Site, and Nichele Nichols of Star Trek fame, to name a few. Grove shares that The Capitol Bar was called The Green Front during Prohibition, during which time it operated as a speakeasy and pool hall, with 25 cent moonshine available to patrons. It became the first legal bar operating in Socorro after Prohibition and remains a popular hangout for a wide variety of patrons today. Complete with driving directions and local facts, “Hoist a Cold One!: Historic Bars of the Southwest” is an engaging read for locals and non-locals, alike. It’s available online through Amazon, locally at The Marketplace in Magdalena, Harold’s Southwest Gifts in Socorro, and at both The Cap and The Owl. mountainmailnews.com • Mountain Mail • September 29, 2011 • Page 15 Oktoberfest: “the beer that made Socorro famous.” continued from front page Sponsored by the Socorro County Historical Society, the annual get-together features your choice of a bratwurst and sauerkraut or barbecued beef plate and cold beverage, a baked sale and musical entertainment. The Socorro Old Car Club will display some of their vintage cars on 6th Street in the Rancher’s Steakhouse parking lot, just a few hundred yards north of the museum. As per tradition, society president Bob Eveleth will serve as honorary brewmeister with George Killian Red on tap. Tickets are $11 with all proceeds to benefit the museum, also home to the Socorro Train Gang. Oktoberfest began in Munich, Germany, for families and friends to celebrate the autumn harvest, the year’s first brew, and simply put – have fun. It is not known when the first Oktoberfest was held in Socorro, but probably in 1882, the year that German brewmeister Jakob Hammel and his family arrived to start his famous brewery. By the 1900s, there were several German families living in Socorro, such as the Hammels, Eppeles, Spurgeons and Zimmerlys. Oktoberfest celebrates the Hammel Brewery and one of Socorro’s early industries with traditional foods and drink, live music, baked goods, arts and crafts, and tours of the brewery. The Hammel Brewery has deep German roots. In 1848, two friends immigrated from Bavaria to establish German breweries. They were Eberhard Anheuser and Jakob Hammel. By 1860, Hammel owned the Illinois Brewing Company, while his friend owned the very successful E. Anheuser & Company (now the Anheuser-Busch Co.). For health reasons, Hammel’s son, William, moved to Socorro, N.M., and established a branch of the Illinois Brewing Co. in 1882. Later called the Hammel Brewery, it quickly became famous throughout New Mexico. Packed in ice and shipped by train and wagons, Socorro’s lager beers were delivered and served cold throughout the state – a real novelty at the time. William Hammel, and German brewmeister Francis Eppele, employed numerous Socorroans to brew and bottle “the beer that made Socorro famous.” Unfortunately, the legacy of Socorro’s German brews came to an end in 1919 with the 18th Amendment — the Prohibition Act — requiring the dismantling of all breweries. Today, Frances Senn, a longstanding board member of the Socorro County Historical Society, is the granddaughter of famous brewmeister Francis Eppele. After Prohibition, Clarence Hammel continued the business and bottled Pepsi-Cola, Dr. Pepper and Grapette, in addition to operating the ice plant. The Hammel Brewery building is now the Historical Society’s museum, home to the Socorro Train Gang and, of course, Oktoberfest. Whether you have an ounce of German blood in your veins or not, Oktoberfest is fun for all. Girard crowned 2011 New Mexico State Fair Queen Jamie Gerard was crowned Queen of the 2011 New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque. Jamie graduated from Socorro High School and is enrolled at New Mexico Tech as a biology major. Courtesy photo Classifieds FREE CLASSIFIEDS! Place your classified ad online or call 854-3500 / 838-6452 today!! GENERAL FREE ADS Place your FREE classified ad now in the Mountain Mail News. 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