November 2017 IncSmart Newsletter

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November 2017 IncSmart Newsletter

Veterans Day

In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, the Allied powers a signed a cease-fire agreement (an armistice) with Germany at Rethondes, France on November 11, 1918, bringing World War I to a close. The "war to end all wars" was over. November 11, 1919 was set aside as Armistice Day in the United States. Beginning in 1954, the United States designated November 11 as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. 1971 President Nixon declared it a federal holiday on the second Monday in November. In 1921, an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This site, on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River became the focal point of reverence for America's veterans.

Veterans Day Clam Bake
Everyone loves clambakes. The tradition of the clambake goes back to the Native Americans who taught the pilgrims the art of steaming clams, corn, potatoes and other things in a hole in the ground. You don’t need to rush to the beach, dig a hole in the sand for an authentic clambake. Most people don’t live on a beach and don’t necessarily want to dig a hole in the backyard. You just need your friends and family and a back yard grill, and you will not find any sand in your butter. Don’t forget the lobster bibs!

Clambake for 6

3 dozen steamer clams
2 dozen mussels
1 dozen shrimp
6 baking potatoes
6 medium onions
6 medium tomatoes
6 ears of corn (in their husks)

6 live lobsters
lemon wedges
½ lbs melted butter
some seaweed or rockweed (or fresh spinach blended with 4 teaspoons salt)
12 pieces of 18" X 36" cheesecloth
12 pieces of heavy duty aluminum foil

Hot Apple Cider

6 Cups Apple Cider
¼ Cup Maple Syrup
2 cinnamon sticks
6 whole cloves
6 whole allspice berries
1 orange peel cut into strips
1 lemon peel cut into strips

Pour all ingredients in saucepan. Simmer over moderate heat for 10 minutes until cider is hot but not boiling. Strain into big cups or mugs.

Maple Syrup Pie

1 Cup Maple Syrup
½ Cup Water
3 Tbl Cornstarch
2 Tbl Cold Water
¼ Cup Chopped Nuts
1 Tbl Butter

Boil maple syrup and water for 5 minutes. Thicken with cornstarch and 2 tablespoons of cold water. When creamy and clear, add nuts and butter. Pour into pastry lined pie plate and cover with round pastry top. Bake in oven at 350 degrees until top crust is golden brown.

Autumn Hayride

Take in the scenery of surrounding farmlands or try nighttime hayride and watch the stars. Enjoy the fresh air from being in the country. Most rides take approximately 45 minutes and include a tractor-drawn wagon ride through an orchard or farm. Bring along a guitar and sing your favorite songs and get ready for a straw fight. There are many kinds of hayrides. From pumpkin patches to cookouts and bonfires.

Blankets, Flashlights, Lanterns, Handy-wipes, Paper Towels, Picnic Basket, Backpack

Ice Cooler, Jackets/Gloves, Hot drinks, Closed toed shoes, Snack Food, Thermos
Mosquito Repellent

Hayride Songs

Find a music coordinator to learn all the words to your hayride songs. Someone not to shy about getting the gang to sing along. Bring the guitars, tambourines and harmonicas.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The Saints Go Marching In
He’s Got The Whole World
Michael Row The Boat
Kum Ba Yah
Clementine
The Happy Wonderer

Hot Buttered Rum
1 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
1/4 cup butter
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
Salt (dash)
Cream the sugar along with the butter. Add remaining ingredients. Blend well into a batter. To serve, put a generous tablespoon of batter in each mug along with 1 1/2 ounces of rum and fill with boiling water. Stir until batter is dissolved. A cinnamon stick can be added to each mug.

Hot Toddy
Favorite brewed tea
1 Tbl honey
2 shots Brandy
1 slice lemon
Brew tea and fill tall glass mug 3/4 full. Dissolve in honey. Mix in Brandy shots. Add lemon slice and enjoy

Autumn Dinner
2 Pheasants
3 cups water (salt to taste)
1 sm can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 sm can Cream of Chicken Soup
1 sm can Cream of Celery Soup
4 Tbl Cornstarch
1 Box of Long Grain and Wild Rice cooked
Soak pheasants for several hours before cooking. Put pheasants in large pot. Bring to boil, then skim. Reduce heat and cook till tender. Lift birds from pot and cool. Strain broth for bones. Return broth to pot, add cornstarch (dissolved in cold water). Ad soups to the broth. Pull meat from bones and put in broth. Simmer for 30 minutes. Cook rice. Arrange meat in middle of serving platter and spoon rice around meat. Pour broth over meat and rice and serve.
Wild rice is a native American grass. It grows naturally in water in the Western Great Lakes area. The Native Americans of the area have used it as a staple food for many centuries and today it is still gathered in the traditional way, by hand, and marketed for consumption as a luxury food.

Pumpkin Pie

1 medium sugar pumpkin
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pie pastry crust
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup honey, warmed slightly
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
Cut pumpkin in half, and remove seeds. Lightly oil the cut surface. Place cut side down on a pan lined with foil and lightly oiled. Bake at 325 degrees F until the flesh is tender when poked with a fork. Cool until just warm. Scrape the pumpkin flesh from the peel. Either mash, or puree in small batches in a blender. In large bowl, blend together 2 cups pumpkin puree, spices, and salt. Beat in eggs, honey, milk, and cream. Pour filling into pie shell. Bake at 400 degrees F for 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted 1 inch from edge of pie comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
Microwave Method - Cut the pumpkin in half, discarding the stringy insides. Microwave on high for seven minutes per pound.

Thanksgiving

In 1621, after a hard and devastating first year in the New World the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful. There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish, which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke cured over fires. The Pilgrims had beaten the odds. They built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors. Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that was to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.

It’s All About The Turkey

Carving
1. Cut the band of skin holding the drumsticks. Grasp end of drumstick. Place knife between drumstick/thigh and body and cut through to joint. Move entire leg and thigh. Remove the leg from the thigh.
2. Make a horizontal cut above wing joint through to the body frame. Remove wing.
3. Slice straight down with an even stroke, beginning halfway up the breast. When knife reaches the cut above wing joint, slice will fall free.
4. Continue to slice breast meat, starting the cut at a higher point each time.

Touch Football Rules
American families love getting together for touch football rivalries. This game includes everyone, from children to grandparents. All you need is four or more players, a football, a dishtowel for each player, and a flat, grassy place to play. Choose the time limit. Give yourself at least an hour before the feast so you have a chance to rest and clean up for dinner.

Set up your goal lines on each end of the field, using items found in your as boundaries. Divide the players into two teams and tuck a dishtowel into the waistband or each player’s pants. Then flip a coin to determine which team will kick off first. Line each team across its goal line. Have one player start the game by kicking the football to the other team. The receiving team must get the ball and run it back to score a touchdown. If the opposing team grabs the runner's dishtowel, then the runner is tackled. Now the receiving team has four tries to get the ball to the goal line. Each try begins with teams starting where the ball was tackled. If a team does not score, it must give the ball to the other team, which begins where it gained possession of the ball. A team also can gain possession when the other team fumbles or intercepts a pass.

Furmenty

1 cup cracked wheat
1/8 tsp. ground mace
1 quart milk
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 egg yolks
1/2 tsp. salt
Additional brown sugar
In pot, boil water and add the wheat. Lower heat to simmer, cover, and continue to cook for 1/2 hour. Drain off water and add the milk, cream, salt, mace, cinnamon and sugar. Continue to simmer, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid is absorbed 20 minutes. In a bowl, beat egg yolks and stir 1/2 cup of the wheat mixture. Then stir the yolk mixture into the pot, and continue cooking for another 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Serve sprinkled with brown sugar

Cinema

Plymouth Adventure 1952
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn
Colorful recreation of the Pilgrim journey to America on the Mayflower.

The National Dog Show is a traditional annual event

Every Thanksgiving at noon. It is an event in which pedigreed dogs of all sizes and shapes come together in Philadelphia to compete for the title of the most beautiful, most gracious and well-groomed dog in the USA.

Poppies

This bright red wildflower became a symbol of World War I after a bloody battle in a field of poppies called Flanders Field in Belgium. Poppy seed will lie in the ground for years if the soil is undisturbed. That churned up cemetery known as the Western Front provided the ideal medium for masses of poppies to blanket the graves. All the money contributed by the public for Buddy Poppies is used in the cause of veteran’s welfare, or for the well-being of their needy dependents and the orphans of veterans.

Tomb of the Unknowns

On Nov. 11, 1921, an unidentified soldier killed in France was buried here and it was dedicated as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Nov. 11, 1932. On Memorial Day, 1958, the bodies of two other unknown soldiers—one of whom had died in World War II, the other during the Korean War—were buried in the tomb, which was renamed the Tomb of the Unknowns.

In Flanders Fields
By Colonel John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Natural Allergy Remedy

Local honey provides a homeopathic remedy for seasonal pollen allergies, but also for its value as a homeopathic remedy for hay fever and pollen related allergies. It has been recognized by many that a tablespoon of local honey each day relieves the symptoms of pollen related allergies. The honey should be newly harvested from within a 50-mile radius of where you live and work, or from an area where the vegetation is similar.

Smores

2 graham crackers
1 marshmallow
1 tbsp. miniature chocolate chips
Place chips on 1 of the crackers. Set the marshmallow on top. Cover this with the other cracker. Place in microwave for 1 minute

Rice Crispy Treats

1/4 c. butter
1 pkg. (10 oz.) regular marshmallows
6 c. Kellogg's Rice Crispies cereal
Melt butter in large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. Add Rice Crispies cereal. Stir until well coated

Kitchen Witch

Kitchen witch folklore tells us the kitchen witch is a good witch, making the kitchen a warm, cozy, and comfortable place to be in. She performs magic that out tricks the bad witch, who is full of mischief. You can’t buy one for yourself...they must be given to you as a gift.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

In 1924 Macy’s started the official opening of the holiday season with its parade. A Roaring 20’s extravaganza. Air filled balloons took the place of live animals in 1927.

The Wishbone

It is custom to save this bone intact when carving the bird at Thanksgiving and to dry it until brittle. Once the wishbone is dry, it is given to two people, who pull it apart until it cracks and breaks, each one making a wish while doing so. The person who gets the long half of the wishbone will have the wish come true. If the wishbone breaks evenly, both parties get their wishes.

Cornucopia

The Horn of Plenty has long been the definitive symbol of Thanksgiving. Its long horn shape allows for the display of the season's bountiful harvest. Traditionally made out of wicker, the cornucopia is ideal as the centerpiece for our holiday look. Make or buy a cornucopia.

Swizzle

A Pilgrim Treat
1 quart water
¾ cup molasses
¼ cup white vinegar
½ teaspoon ginger
Mix all the ingredients in a glass jar. Shake them well. Refrigerate overnight.

The busiest shopping day of the year is really Christmas Eve. But the day after Thanksgiving is equally as important. It is the first shopping day for the Christmas season. So make your list. Check it twice.

Black Friday
Cyber Monday

Chestnut Stuffing

2 ounces oil
2 ounces butter
1 cup diced carrots
1 cup diced onions
1 cup diced celery
1 tablespoon chopped fresh marjoram
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
2 quarts focaccia, cut into 1-inch cubes
4 ounces chicken stock
4 ounces cider
1 pound roasted, peeled, and cleaned chestnuts cut into quarters
Salt and pepper, to taste

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Add oil and butter to a hot casserole. Add carrots, onions, and celery and cook until soft. Remove from heat and add marjoram and thyme. In a bowl combine focaccia, vegetables, hot stock, cider, and chestnuts. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix well. Place in covered baking dish and bake for 30 minutes

MOVEMBER FOUNDATION

Grow A Mustache

Doing Movember means raising funds for men’s health. And growing a moustache is your chance to do just that.

Start clean shaven, grow throughout the month, and get some serious funds behind the men who need it most.

MOVE

Men and women alike can embrace the sweaty Mo this Movember by being active. It’s what we like to call Move. Set a distance goal at the start of the month, and walk, run, cycle, swim or row your way to achieving it. You can raise much needed funds for men’s health while you’re at it.

https://us.movember.com/

November 2017 IncSmart Newsletter

Fall Holiday Season with IncSmart

November 2017 IncSmart Newsletter

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