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Converting a Coleman Stove to Use 5 Gallon Tanks of Propane.

If you have a Coleman stove that works on the small propane canisters, you can readily adapt it to work off a five- gallon propane tank.  This lets you run your stove almost 20 times longer without refueling.  It takes …

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Store Canned Foods that have Multiple Uses

One thing we have tried to do in our food storage is to stock items that store well and are versatile.  A good example is spam.  Hormel says that it will last indefinitely unless the cans are punctured or damaged.  …

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Making Bean Flour and Cooking with Old Beans

Earlier today, I received the following question on beans, it was in a comment on a post about bean flours.  I think it may be of interest to many of you. The question is “Can you use pinto bean flour …

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How to Cook Strange Foods

Today I am going to discuss some information that is taught by the U.S Military about how to cook wildlife in emergency situations.  Most of us have a pretty good idea on how to cook deer, elk and other common …

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Food Allergy’s, Gluten, and Various Grains and Bean Recipes

We were visiting our daughter awhile back in Utah and  as always we got started talking about storage and all the wheat our families have.  All of us think that with wheat we can survive an emergency because we can …

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What do You do When Your Yeast Runs Out or Gets Old?

You are getting ready to make a few loafs of bread from your freshly ground wheat and you grab your yeast and see it is a few years old what do you do?  You don’t want to waste the food …

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Cooking with Bean Flours

Since our blog on grinding grains with the Wonder Mill Junior, I have been thinking about all the different legumes that can be used for flour.  Storing whole beans is as easy as storing whole wheat and can be used …

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The Wonder Mill Junior

I have spent good part of a day trying out a Wonder Mill Junior.  Now I already have a Country Living Mill that sells for over four hundred dollars and it is a good mill.  However, the Wonder Mill which …

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Some Simple Rules for Using Honey in Cooking

Honey if correctly stored will last indefinitely, with age it may crystallize, but that is not a problem.  Having been raised overseas I never saw liquid honey until I came to this country.  You got it from the store in …

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Building a simple barrel smoker

Smoking meat and fish is an excellent way to preserve it for non-refrigerated storage.  A smoke house is easy to build and is not expensive if you are willing to do a little work.  There are two main types of …

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