Just wanted to offer a suggestion for Mrs. PN's baking and your sugar preps. Did you know brown sugar is quickly made from granulated sugar and molasses?
Molasses keeps indefinitely, boosts iron and makes brown sugar. When you need brown sugar, just add molasses to sugar a little at a time to desired darkness.
Ratio to start...
Approximately 1 tablespoon molasses to 1 cup sugar
(Use white or cane sugar)
Add more molasses for recipes that call for dark brown sugar.
That's it.
Bonus... in the depression era folks would add a spoonful of molasses to a glass of milk. The iron helps when meat is scarce.
***True molasses is better for baking, not blackstrap. Blackstrap is more concentrated and can interfere with consistency and flavor of recipes. Reserve blackstrap for livestock feed, fertilizer, iron supplementation and non baking recipes (unless specifically called for). I believe 1 Tbsp true molasses has about 1 mg iron while blackstrap has approx 5 times this amount.
🛢📈 — Reuters reports that oil is approaching $100 per barrel following the latest exchange of attacks between Americans and Iranians on oil tankers.
▶️The price of Brent crude has risen to $97.07 per barrel, while American WTI crude has risen to $92.28. In the past week, Brent has risen by 7.8%, while WTI has risen by nearly 10%.
▶️On Saturday, U.S. forces attacked three Iranian oil tankers, one of which was stationed near the island of Kharg, a key center for Iranian oil exports. In response, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and three more U.S. ships.
▶️In this context, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has sharply declined. Over the past 10 days, an average of only 10 cargo ships have transited the strait per day – the lowest level since May.
The WHO now states on its website:
Vaccination against COVID-19 can trigger multiple sclerosis through cross-reactive CD4+-T cells that recognize the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and myelin peptides.
In other words: Your own immune system destroys the nerve pathways and then attacks your brain and spinal cord.