Fields Of Heather

My Daddy Pours Concrete Better Than Your Daddy

This shirt was a request, years ago, from my daughter in law.

Download it as a FREE SVG here

Tips For Using HTV

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I have never felt the need to purchase a heat press. My iron has always worked great for me

Price Comparisons, Brands of vinyl I personally like, Price Guidelines...

How To Remove HTV

If You Make A Mistake

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Making T-Shirts With Cricut

An Index

Hot Air Balloon Ride T-shirts

For years, my best friend and our husbands have met up at a local balloonfest and watched the hot air balloons take off. And for years we said "For our 50th birthday, we're going up"

Tips, Tricks, Projects & Resources

For Making Cards With Cricut

I am always telling new cricut users to NOT try to learn everything at once. Choose one project you want to make. Learn how to make that. Then move on to the next thing you want to make. What you need to know to make 3d Paper projects is so different than what you need to know for cutting faux leather, and what you need to know for making a t-shirt is different than what you need to know for putting a name on a tumbler...

There are a LOT of great designers with free tutorials and free svgs to get you started, with every type of project, in addition to the projects and resources I have here on this blog. This series of blog posts is my attempt to direct you to the resources for each type of project.

How To Make Stickers

Tips, Tricks, & Tutorials

Strawberry Shortcake Recipes
[printable page from my personal cookbook at the bottom of this post]

Come early June, when the strawberries are in season in Central Pennsylvania, it's not terribly unusual for strawberry shortcake to be served for dinner. Not as a dessert, but as dinner. Here on the farm, it's a traditional biscuit style cake - somewhat dry and crumbly. You break it up into pieces, top it with strawberries that have been sliced or mashed and left to sit in a little extra sugar, so they are good and juicy. Then most add milk, almost as if this were a cereal, and top with whipped cream. I personally skip the milk, just topping my cake with the berries and some whipped cream.

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For All The Recipes

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes for an 8x8 pan, 40 minutes for 9x11[double batch]

Use about 1/3 to half a cup of sugar on 1 Qt of mashed or sliced strawberries, let sit while the cake bakes. Top with whipped cream and or milk.

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From the recipe drawer - but not a recipe I use personally

There's a drawer in my kitchen that has several generations worth of family recipes in it. The recipes came with the house when we moved in. In that drawer is a shortcake recipe, using oil. It's not a recipe I use personally. I also have old recipes that use eggs, and sour cream. To me, that makes no sense - once you add eggs, or sour cream, it is no longer shortcake - just cake. But that's just my opinion. Well, and my husbands - he has very definite preferences when it comes to his shortcake. :-)

Here's a comparison - our favorite on the left, it has more of a scone texture. The one on the right is the recipe I posted above, that uses oil. The oil makes more of a soft, sponge type cake.

My Favorite Shortcake Recipe:

· 2 1/3 Cups Bisquick Mix

· ½ cup milk

· 3 TBS sugar

· 3 TBS butter, melted
This is my go to, favorite, shortcake recipe. It makes one pie pan, or 8x8 pan. Double it for a 9x11 pan.

I make my own “Bisquick” Mix:

· 6c flour

· 1c shortening

· 3Tbs Baking Powder

· 1tsp salt

Mix thoroughly in food processor, store in fridge or freezer. [I keep a tub of this in my freezer]

To make this version without the Bisquick:

· 2 cups flour

· 3 Tbs sugar

· 1/2 cup butter

· [OR 1/3 c shortening + 3Tbs Butter]

· 2 tsp baking powder

· 1 tsp salt

· 3/4 cup milk

Cut flour, sugar and butter together until mixture looks like coarse crumbs, then mix in the rest of the ingredients