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How to Eat a Persimmon
Add to Favorites If you haven’t tried a persimmon yet, you’re missing out. It takes a little light reading to learn how to eat a persimmon and add it to …
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How to Make Homemade Granola
Add to Favorites Running out of homemade granola during blueberry season is a capital offense at our house. One of the reasons we tend to run out is that homemade …
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Kitchen Gift Guide: Homemade Bread Recipes, Mason Jar Cookie Mixes, and More!
Find creative kitchen gift ideas for homesteaders and friends alike.
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How to Make Vanilla Extract
Vanilla extract is so easy to create; what are you waiting for? Have fun learning how to make vanilla extract at home!
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What’s for Dessert?
Add to Favorites By Wanda Pentyon Egg Custard Pie 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour 2 tablespoons butter, melted 2 cups milk 3 eggs 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 unbaked pie …
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Stuffed Chicken Galore!
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum Stuffed chicken with rice is the most favored way of stuffing chicken in the whole of the Middle East. Various versions of it are prepared …
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Lazy Man’s Tomato Sauce
Add to Favorites By Daniel Strauss, Lockport, New York “Give a difficult job to a lazy man and he’ll find an easier way to do it.” So was the quote from an old issue …
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Cast Iron Skillet Cornbread
Add to Favorites 2 cups freshly ground corn. If not ground fine in grinder, place in blender on high to finer grind. It doesn’t have to be a flour consistency. …
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Segediener Goulash Recipe
Add to Favorites By Eva Schweizer My neighbor, Eva, was born in a part of Eastern Europe that changed nationalities regularly after major wars. In the early 20th century they …
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Hearty Minnesota Fare
Add to Favorites By Clara Groenhoff, Minnesota My Norwegian great-grandparents homesteaded the farm where I grew up. I’ve also always been a homesteader at heart. I’ve raised 11 children on …
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Enjoy Brussels Sprouts all Year Long
Add to Favorites By Terri, New Mexico Most people eat Brussels sprouts steamed or boiled like cabbage. I would like to share my own invention that saved me many a …
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Making German Bread in Your Home Oven
Making bread is as much an art as it is science. There are many ways to make bread — and I am sure many people have their own favorite way.
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In The Kitchen — Travel: Tunisia’s Paradise
Add to Favorites Story & Photos By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around The World The taxi driver, Ahmad, was talkative as we drove through the beautiful countryside of the Island …
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Heat and Eat on a Wood-Burning Cook Stove
Add to Favorites By Gail Reynolds, Missouri – Among the most common of homestead essentials is learning how to cook on the wood-burning cook stove. For most Countryside readers, the ultimate …
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In Brazil, Eternal Summer
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around the World I was visiting my relatives on the farm in southern Saskatchewan when a family friend from Brazil remarked, …
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