This fresh strawberry pie recipe is easy and delicious! No need to bake, use a graham cracker crust for a scrumtious dessert!
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Pioneer Cooking
Cooking Like a Pioneer I’ve always enjoyed cooking outside over a campfire. I recently started cooking in a Dutch oven over hot coals for a real pioneer experience. I like the fact that it requires me to be outside, enjoying the day, rather than being stuck in the kitchen looking…
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How to Make Rhubarb Cake and Rhubarb Sauce
Make Your Own Rhubarb Cake and Rhubarb Sauce! Every spring my rhubarb patch provides the main ingredient for a wonderful array of delicious treats. I love making rhubarb cake, rhubarb sauce, rhubarb potluck pie, strawberry rhubarb freezer jam, and vanilla rhubarb jam from scratch. This is just the beginning of…
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Foraging for Burdock and Making Carduni
Foraging for Burdock & Making Carduni Burdock (Arctium lappa) grows wild all over much of North America and it’s a fairly easy plant to identify. (Make sure you take a reliable guide with you when foraging for wild plants.) In addition to being quite common, the stems are very tasty…
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What to do With Extra Eggs?
Do You Have Extra Eggs in the Spring? Hens naturally start laying extra eggs in the spring so they can raise a clutch of chicks. Since most hens don’t go broody and hatch their eggs, it’s up to us to collect these extra eggs for our table. Do you have…
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Canning Cupboard
Storing Home Canned Goods For more information, read my post How To Store Your Home Canned Foods It’s important to store your home canned meats, fruits and vegetables properly. Cool temperatures and dark conditions help to retain the color, flavor, and nutrients of your canned goods. You also need to…
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Making Broth on Your Woodstove
Homemade Broth on the Wood Stove Our wood stove really makes our house feel like a home. I love having the warmth in winter, plus it’s so nice to fill the tea kettle for hot drinks all day. We also cook on our wood stove quite a bit, reducing our…
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Cranberry-Orange Marmalade
See also How to Make Cranberry Jam and How to Make Jam from Frozen Fruit Cranberry Orange Marmalade Yield: approximately 15 half pints 20 oranges, washed 8 cups sugar 3 packages low sugar pectin 4 cups cranberry juice 3 cups cranberries, sorted and washed Using a medium cheese grater, remove the…
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How to Clean Out the Root Cellar
How to Clean Your Root Cellar In March and April, it’s time to clean out the root cellar and finish up the last of your cold storage veggies. Many root cellar crops have long passed their ‘keeping’ limits by this time of the year. Beets, squash, pumpkins, carrots, cabbages, and…
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Whole Grain Cinnamon Pancake Mix
Make Ahead Mix Saves You Time and Money! It’s nice to have baking mixes in the cupboard for whipping up quick breads, muffins (you can find my whole grain muffin mix here), pancakes and waffles, cakes…you name it. Walking down the baking aisle at the grocery store is a testament…
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Chocolate Pudding Muffins
Sounds decadent, right? Well, I ‘healthied’ it up for you and made this with whole grains and a real dairy pudding from scratch. I started out by using the Muffin Mix I’ve posted about umpteen times, then I used Homemade Chocolate Pudding in the middle. After you make the…
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Homemade Chocolate Pudding
Chocolate! I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who doesn’t like chocolate in it’s many wondrous forms! We love chocolate in our house and you can read more about our chocolate preferences in my post 40 Pounds of Organic Fair Trade Chocolate! I like it plain, in cookies, sprinkled over ice cream,…
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How to Make Cottage Cheese From Sour Milk
Making Cottage Cheese from Sour Milk Making cottage cheese from sour milk is a great way to reduce waste, save money, and get some extra protein in your diet. Are you tired of dumping sour milk down the drain? My Mom always used sour milk in baked goods for light…
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Sour Milk – Don’t Toss it Out!
When Good Milk Goes Bad I buy 2 or 3 gallons of raw milk each week from a local farmer. It’s no problem at all for our family of 3 to use 2 gallons of milk a week. I make at least one batch of yogurt a week, plus I…
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Boston Brown Bread
Old Fashioned Brown Bread I found a recipe for brown bread online that calls for more sour milk than my usual recipe, the one my Gram always made. I had a lot of sour milk to use up and decided to give this old-fashioned recipe a whirl. I’ll give you…
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Homemade Ricotta Cheese
See also Sour Milk – Don’t Toss it Out! and Cottage Cheese Made from Sour Milk Ricotta Cheese I’ve seen a couple of posts about making ricotta cheese recently and it prompted me to try making my own! I love ricotta cheese in lasagna and I buy the organic kind when…