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A History of 102 E. Gorham St.
Produced by Amanda Werhane and Jill Hopke, former Hypatians.
Attic Cleaning Co-op Style
Sometimes co-ops collect a little clutter. That’s really an understatement. Hypatia’s attic had been collecting clutter for at least two and a half noticeable decades: dressers with missing drawers; at least six bed frames, aged like a fine wine; forgotten boxes of clothes and books; an antique and well used toilet displaying a fine patina; three tube-style television sets; computer monitors; sketchbooks left half used; junk doors and windows — brightly painted, dulled by dust…
We collected the stuff in our dining room, but it overflowed, spilling out into the corridor.
…masonry and rubble (?); mouse-infested and tattered luggage; couches from the street side; used Band-Aids and balls of tape; timeworn lamp fixtures — no shades; relics of people’s lives circa the early/mid ’90s — pink hair dryers, Aqua Net aerosol hair spray, baseball cards, a stepping machine, Thigh Master set. Punk-O-Rama I and II CDs. Et cetera. And though it was interesting to rummage through this, we had to let it go. The clutter rendered the space nearly unusable.
All the attic stuff piled into our living room and out into the hallway
What to do with 50 pounds of tomatoes
In the hopes of limiting our exposure to cardboard tomatoes through the long Wisconsin winter, we decided to buy 50 pounds of tomatoes while they were still in season. Inspired by posts on a couple of my favorite food blogs (Salt & Fat and Smitten Kitchen), I decided to turn them into jarred oven-dried tomatoes and two big batches of tomato sauce: one tomato butter sauce and the other a simple spicy tomato sauce.
Varieties of plum tomatoes are recommended for the oven-dried tomatoes because they are meatier and not too soft for the drying. The drying takes 6 hours in the oven at 200°F, so if you are preparing dried tomatoes and sauce, start with the drying recipe first. Continue reading
Breads and Hypatia
One of my favorite things about Hypatia is access to a great kitchen and all the baking supplies that I could ask for. When I moved into Hypatia I took the opportunity to start learning how to make bread. Here is a gallery of some of the bread that I’ve made while living here:
Our New Website
Now that our website is up and running, we will use this front page for announcements and the occasional blog post.