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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Tests were conducted on baking powder shelf life between 2004-2007 by the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science, Brigham Young University. The following are excerpts from the test reports “Baking powder is widely used
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Now I am kind of stuck in the 1950’s when it comes to working on cars. I will admit I would be in trouble if I had to work on any of the newer vehicles.
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More on Leavening agents As promised, I did some research on the use of lye or potash as leavening agents. This is what I found on the website for King Arthur Flour https://www.kingarthurflour.com/tips/quick-bread-primer.html. They provide
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[/caption] At the solar cook off there were successes and near failures. I want to write about one of the near failures. This was something I have heard about in the past and have been
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I have a list of items that I am always searching for, last week I found one. It is a 2 ½ gallon hand operated fire extinguisher. Back in the 60’s we used these all
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[/caption] Last weekend I was at an event in which there was a demonstration of various methods of fire starting. One young gentleman was extremely fast at starting a bow and drill, you could tell
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Lately I have been looking at many jerky recipes, most of the new ones use complicated flavored marinates and some form of cooking or refrigeration. Many of the recipes tell you to dunk the meat
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[/caption] Tularemia also known as rabbit fever, is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. Tularemia occurs throughout North America, Europe, Russia, China and Japan. If you are planning to supplement you’re food storage with hunting you should
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Now I know all of you are all like me and can start a fire rubbing two sticks together with one hand tied behind you. However most people don’t have this ability and depend on
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