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• Cheryl’s Recipe Corner!

• Pan de Muertos (Mexican Bread of the Dead)

• Description

• With Halloween and Día de los Muertos coming up in the next few days, I decided to share a recipe for Pan de muertos!  It is a bread made for the November 2 celebration known as Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Mexico. You can also mold the bread into different shapes like angels and animals.  The Anise seed, while suggested, is optional.  But you definitely need the orange zest!

• Ingredients (Bread)

• 1/4 cup milk

• 1/4 cup butter or margarine

• 1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1/4 cup white sugar

• 2 teaspoons anise seed

• 1-1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 2 large eggs, beaten

• 1 tablespoon orange zest

• Ingredients (Glaze)

• 1/4 cup white sugar

• 1/4 cup orange juice

• 2 teaspoons orange zest

• 2 tablespoons white sugar

• Directions

• To make the bread: Heat milk and butter in a medium saucepan over low heat until butter melts. Remove from heat and add warm water. Mixture should be around 110 degrees F (43 degrees C). Combine 1 cup flour, sugar, anise seed, yeast, and salt in a large bowl. Beat in warm milk mixture, then add eggs and orange zest; beat until well combined. Stir in 1/2 cup flour and continue adding more flour until dough is soft. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic. Place dough into a lightly greased bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 1 to 2 hours. Punch dough down and shape into a large round loaf with a round knob on top. Place dough onto a baking sheet; loosely cover with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place until just about doubled in size, about 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Cool slightly before brushing with glaze. To make the glaze: Combine 1/4 cup sugar, orange juice, and orange zest in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat and boil for 2 minutes. Brush glaze over top of warm bread. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons sugar.

• Cheryl’s Mixed Drink Corner

• Frida’s Flowers

• Description

• Let’s keep the Dia de los Muertos celebration going with a tasty cocktail!

• Ingredients

• 2 parts White tequila

• 3/4 part Strawberry -OR- hibiscus syrup

• 1 part Fresh lime juice

• 1/4 part Creme de cacao

• Directions

• Shake all ingredients vigorously with plenty of ice. Strain into a coupe or Martini glass. Garnish with edible flowers (optional).

• Russ’s Drink Corner

• Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskey

• Description

• The key to our bourbon is our high malted barley content in our mashbill. By investing in our bourbon and using four times more malted barley than traditional recipes, we’ve created a non-traditional bourbon that generates sweet and light components. Aged for five years, the malted barley combined with the spicy essence of clove from the rye, and the classic rich bourbon character from the corn amounts to a robust and smooth taste profile.

• Details

• Mashbill: 51% Corn, 34% Malted Barley, 15% Rye

• Proof: 88 (44% ABV)

• Region: Fort Collins, Colorado

• Color: Medium caramel

• Nose: Sweet vanilla and caramel, banana, clove spice, hint of maple and almonds

• Taste: Maple syrup, almond, bitter orange, raw bran, chocolate, deep wood and coconut, saltgrass

• Finish: Salted caramel, light woody notes, malted grain, nuts and honey

• Price: $50 (750ml)

• Rating: 86

• Bill’s Whatever Corner

• Rossville Union Bottled in Bond Straight Rye Whiskey

• ROSSVILLE UNION’S MASTER DISTILLER, IAN STIRSMAN, HAND SELECTED THIS BOTTLED-IN-BOND, SIX-YEAR-OLD RYE WHISKEY. THIS MASTERFULLY CRAFTED, 2023 LIMITED-RELEASE RYE WHISKEY IS CARAMEL AND MOCHA-FORWARD WITH A RICH, CANDIED FRUIT BODY AND A SLIGHT GREEN APPLE, MALTED CHOCOLATE, AND CINNAMON FINISH.

• Aged 6 Years 50% ABV

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Another month has zoomed by and it's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities. Can you meet the challenge?

From CLE organizers comes the following info:

Hello all

This weekend was the running of the Worked All Germany contests or WAG. This contest supports both CW and SSB within the same contest. As for me, it was strictly CW....go figure eh!. As happens now and then just before the contest there was an atmospheric burp and the K index moved to 5! The good thing about this is everyone is affected so your still kinda on the same playing field more or less. 

This is a 24-hour contest that starts at noon Saturday my time. With the poor solar conditions, there was lots of fading in and out (QSB). This resulted in lots of repeats and contacts that started at S7 and ended somewhere in the dust. I take this as an opportunity to sharpen my CW skills and learn more about the Icom 7610 filtering. This time around I took advantage of the two independent receivers the 7610 has. I had a split screen of the band I was on and the next band that could in time show some excitement. This came in very handy today when I noticed 10 meters coming to life. I swapped out 15m for 10m as it seemed to just jump to life. I had 51 contacts in just 1.5 hours and that was during so-so band conditions. I entered the contest as single operator/all band / low power (100 watts). It was a very rainy weekend here so that made it very easy to stay in the radio chair and plug along.

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode's feature is The Importance of WRC Agenda 9.1B

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AmateurLogic.TV Episode 186 is now available for download.

AmateurLogic.TV celebrates 18 years on the air.
George reviews the Craftsman Battery Powered Soldering Iron.
Jocelyn demonstrates the MFJ-1898 Portable HF + 6 Meter Antenna.
Emile introduces Outlook Package Message Manager.
Mike explores OpenWebRX +.
Announcing the winner of our 18th Anniversary contest and Icom IC-705 prize package giveaway.

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Hello and welcome to the 520th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss several open source and ham radio topics. Topics include: student contacts with the ISS, solar eclipse studies, proposed changes to the 60-meter band, the latest Raspberry Pi OS, OpenWebRX and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew