Making Vanilla Extract
Our daughter in Utah made some vanilla extract last year for Christmas gifts for close friends and family. I only use it for baking for our family it’s so good and the flavor is fantastic. …
Recipes
Making Sauerkraut From Scratch
I recently received a request to re-post my sauerkraut recipe. So here is the original post on making sauerkraut. For those of you who have not made sauerkraut it is a very easy way to …
An Excellent Brunswick Stew for Preppers
The following Brunswick stew recipe is one that I make once in a while, mostly in the fall or winter when we have family get to together’s. Brunswick Stew 1 chicken 2-3 pounds lean pork …
Making Fermented Vegetables, a Skill that Makes it Easy to Preserve Food.
[/caption] Today I opened the container, in which I have been making fermented vegetables. This was a mixture of carrots, cabbage and cauliflower along with a small amount of onions, garlic and green pepper for …
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Leavening Bread with Homemade Baking Powder.
There are several ways to leaven bread, you can use yeast from both commercial and wild sources as well as several other methods such as shown in the following links Salt Rising Bread, and Old Ways …
Pioneer Cooking Methods & Recipes Can Help You Use Your Food Storage
I have been doing some more research on pioneer cooking. It always interests me because the recipes incorporate many of the foods we have in our storage. Most of their recipes can be cooked over …
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Homemade Cottage Cheese is Easy to Make
Surprisingly homemade cottage cheese is fairly easy to make with items you probably have already stored in your preps. Mix 2 cups water and 5 1/3 cups instant dry milk (3 cups non-instant) Add 2 …
Toasting bread the old-fashioned way.
[/caption] This morning my wife and I were talking about techniques and tools that we remember from the past. She mentioned toasting bread, which set off a string of memories. When I was very young, …
Fish Head Soups and Stews, a Way to Keep from Wasting Food
When I was a child living in South Africa, I can remember some of our workers cooking fish and sheep’s heads. Now this may sound horrible to us, but they loved them and considered them to …
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Johnnycake, a Simple Cornmeal Flatbread is Easy to Make
Johnnycake (also jonnycake, johnny cake, journey cake, shawnee cake and johnny bread) is a cornmeal flatbread that was widely used by the settlers in the early development of the east coast. It was often used by hunters because of its limited ingredients and that it …
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