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Homestead Style Biscuits & Gravy From Scratch
Biscuit Recipe
Makes 8-10 biscuits
Ingredients:
4 cups all purpose flour
2 tbsp baking powder
2 tsp salt
10 tbsp cold leaf lard or butter (or some of each!) 3/4-1 cup milk or buttermilk
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425F
Combine flour, baking powder, & salt together and mix thoroughly
Add lard and/or butter to dry ingredients & cut in with a fork or pastry cutter (or your hands!) until pieces are evenly distributed. (You can also use a cheese grater for your butter if you wish)
Mix in milk
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Mar 10th 2025
Canning Help Guide (How to Can Food)
How to Can Food
Home canning is a time-tested way to preserve all kinds of different foods. So whether the garden harvest has just come in, you picked up an extra bushel of vegetables at the farmer’s market, or you’d like to give holiday jams and jellies as presents this winter, we’re here to help. We’ll lay out the information you need to get started canning food the right way, saving you time and money while putting up food for the rest of the year.We’re going to
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Jan 23rd 2025
Sauerkraut: It’s Not Just For Bratwurst Anymore
Sauerkraut: It’s Not Just For Bratwurst Anymore
Sauerkraut, while usually paired with bratwurst and mustard, has so much more to offer than most people realize. Not only is it delicious, nutritious, and easy to make, it has origins that can be traced through and even beyond its German name. After touching on the history and benefits of this tasty fermented vegetable, we’ll show you how to make it yourself and tell you why you shouldn’t wait for Oktoberfest to put it on your pla
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Jan 23rd 2025
Put A Summer Garden In Your Winter Pantry
Put A Summer Garden In Your Winter Pantry
Canning Fresh Vegetables and Greens
There’s nothing like a ripe summer tomato, tender, rich and summer sweet. Sliced fresh over the sink, sandwiched between bacon, lettuce, and bread, or simmered down into marinara sauce, it’s as if you’ve condensed the summer sun into a ripe, red, ball of joy. But, come January, the fresh taste of tomatoes feels as far off as those warm summer days. That is, unless you were smart enough to remove and s
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Jan 23rd 2025
How to Make Homemade Cheese - Step by Step
How to Make Cheese
There are a number of reasons to make your own cheese, the most obvious being that cheese is delicious. In all its varieties and textures, cheese is a wonderful food that complements and accentuates almost anything you pair it with. It’s also a fantastic way to extend the shelf life of extra milk from something that has to be refrigerated into a shelf-stable product that can be saved for months. Making your own cheese gives you total control of the ingredients, ensuring
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Jan 23rd 2025
Mason Jar Fermentation Done Right
Fermenting in Mason Jars
For beginners, choosing a fermentation vessel can be as simple as going to your cupboard and pulling out one of the glass mason jars hiding in the corner. There are many great fermentation vessels on the market, but mason jars are by far the easiest vessel to use for several reasons - they are inexpensive, are available in many sizes, they are easy to find, and the clear glass allows you to see how your ferments are progressing. Another timesaving advantage of fermenting
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Jan 22nd 2025
What’s The Difference? Fermentation vs Pickling
What’s The Difference? Fermentation vs Pickling
Fermentation and pickling can be easy to mix up; there are some areas of overlap that can easily spark some confusion.After all, you can make fermented cucumber pickles, or pickled cucumber pickles. But, do fermented cucumber pickles qualify as fermented, or pickled? For the answers to this question and more, read on as we explore the overlap between these two methods of food preservation and preparation.In short, here’s what you need t
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Jan 22nd 2025
Why Vegetables Should Be Fermenting In Your Kitchen
Why Vegetables Should Be Fermenting In Your Kitchen
If you don’t have vegetables fermenting in your kitchen right now, you’re missing out. Fermenting vegetables by preserving them in liquid improves their nutritional profile and results in a tangy, crunchy, delicious final product. Kimchi and sauerkraut are popular variations, but almost any vegetable will ferment when submerged in liquid with salt and / or another starter culture added. Fermented vegetables also last for many months
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Jan 22nd 2025
How to Make Bone Broth with The Ingredients You Have
What is Bone Broth?
Whether you have had bone broth at a friend’s house, restaurant, or packaged from the store, it is all very simple - bone broth is animal bones simmered in water over a long period of time to create a nutritious and easily-digested broth. Healing broths have been around for ages because they are so simple to make, they utilize parts of the animal like chicken frames or neck bones, and they are just plain comforting to drink. A small batch makes almost three quarts of br
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Jan 22nd 2025
How to Make Black Garlic Quickly and Easily at Home
How to Make Black Garlic Quickly and Easily at Home
Famed for its many health and medicinal benefits, as well as its skill for warding off vampires, garlic has long been touted as a must-have dietary ingredient for ultimate health. Not only may garlic be able to boost the immune system, reduce blood pressure, and lower the risk of heart disease, but it may also help people live longer with reduced risks of dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease.
Sounds great, right? Let’s eat all the garlic
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Jan 22nd 2025