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How to make and test apple cider vinegar
My quest here was to produce high quality vinegar that was “re-producible” from only the things I could find in my garden and a few items of basic household materials...
Cast Iron Cooking
When it comes to cooking, one of the best items you can have in your pantry or on your rack is a good solid cast iron skillet...
Super Easy Hard Cider
When I refer to Cider I mean a fermented drink and juice is un-fermented. Now lets get onto how you can make this tasty drink at home and easy...
Cooking on A Log: Failure
After spending an hour fooling with this trying to get some bacon I said screw it. Even If I could make it work it is a huge calorie sink...
Preserving Cheese by Waxing
Waxing cheese is the best way to preserve it for storage. It keeps out any unwanted beasts like mold...
Rendering and Preserving Lard
Lard is good for you and that lard that you can create and preserve for yourself is MUCH better than the commercial lard that you can buy at the stores which contain canola oil—the very oil which is really, really bad for you...
Water Bath Canning and Pressure Canning: Explained
Don't let a little steam and boiling water scare you. Pressure canning and water bath canning are safe methods to preserve your food. Learn how with this excerpt from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning...
How to Make Homemade Yeast
Although you can store your wheat for 30+ years, yeast’s shelf life will only last about a year before it starts to die off and become ineffective. And unless you enjoy eating unleavened Matzah bread, you’ll be forced to eat a lot of bread bricks during a SHTF situation...
Dehydrating Food
Drying is the oldest method of preserving food. Compared with other methods, drying is quite simple. In fact, you may already have most of the equipment on hand.
Using and Cooking With Dehydrated Green Beans
How do you use dehydrated green beans? Here’s the primer on using dehydrated green beans and it actually applies to using most dehydrated vegetables.
Hunger Games Recipe? How to make squirrel (or small game) stir fry
“The Hunger Games” is an adventure tale, and I hope some young people will be motivated to explore hunting as a result of this movie / book. Starting out squirrel hunting is a great choice. But once a squirrel is harvested, it needs to be cooked so it is tasty.
12 Lifesaving Canning Rules
When it’s that time of year to preserve your garden bounty, an excellent method of food preservation is ‘canning’. If done properly, it is entirely safe. However care and precaution are in order...
Cooking with Food Storage - Featuring Dinner is in the Jar
For the majority of us that survive on food from fast food chains, restaurants, frozen dinners, and eating out of a box; we know little about cooking with food storage. If you are overwhelmed with the thought of preparing meals using food storage items, join us as we explore Kathy Clark’s Dinner is in the Jar and make one of her delicious recipes...
Preserving Meat Without Refrigeration
You should learn how to preserve meat without refrigeration. Salting and brining are two efficient, simple means of preserving meat for your family’s sustenance.
Making Cheese
While this may not be something many people would want to do on a regular basis since it is so much easier to go to the store and buy a chunk, if that store is not around it would be a good thing to have practiced a little and know how to do...
Wild Grape Jelly: Practicing an important homesteading survival skill
I believe that canning is an important survival skill. When it comes to getting started in canning, it doesn’t get much easier than making jelly...
Canning Bananas and Pear Butter
Now, what would you want with a bunch of old produce from the grocery stores? Well you can can it, of course. *grin* And yes, this also applies to bananas...
Preparedness Skills: Dehydrating Recipes
In addition to drying plain fruits and veggies, or making plain fruit leathers, check out these dehydrating recipes Dawn loves. Let them inspire you to make dehydrated foods that are perfectly suited to your taste...
Methods Of Meat Preservation
The problem of storing meat for use all year round is an old one. Before preservation though…
The Homestead Hog – Husbandry and “Getting it Done” Butchery
We had come from the town to help with the hog butchering. Nothing was wasted. After sticking the hog and collecting the blood in pots, they would...
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