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Recipes: Middle Eastern Sweets

The delicious pastries of the Middle East have a history that goes back thousands of years. Their roots can be traced to the many civilizations that flowed then ebbed, in that part of the globe.

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Baking Blue Hubbard Squash

Add to Favorites Countryside: Annette Snow asked how to cook Blue Hubbard squash and here is my version. I used to send my foster kids outside to smash it on …

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Spring Soup Recipes

Try these spring soup recipes perfect for Lent and Passover.

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A Rhubarb Juice Recipe for Canning

Add to Favorites (Works well for small children suffering from constipation.) By Maggie Laverman Here is the canning version of a rhubarb juice recipe that is useful for young children suffering from constipation. …

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How To Make Sauerkraut

Add to Favorites By Linda Baccei This is a method I adapted that combines getting things started with dry salting and then using a brine solution as needed. You will need a large …

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Barbecue Rub Recipes For Barbecue Season

Rubs are a great way to enhance the flavor of chicken, pork, or beef for grilling. I use dehydrated, freeze-dried, and powdered products to create rubs.

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Experimenting With Maple Syrup

Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum The first stop of our group on the Tap into Maple Route located in Ontario’s Lake Country and Springwater, an area within the larger region …

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Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

Add to Favorites Makes 7 quarts        14 pounds of tomatoes run through a strainer (weigh them before straining)        1 cup of olive oil   …

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Recipes: Greener Days For You And Your Poultry

Add to Favorites By Janice Cole, Minnesota After a winter that started with an Arctic blast bringing half a foot of snow and plunging temperatures that remained below freezing for endless weeks, …

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Hyden’s Classic Cheviots

Add to Favorites By Tim King — Dean Hyden, of Chewelah, Washington has been raising Border Cheviot sheep for more than four decades. And after all those years, he continues to …

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Bigger Lambs, Without Drugs & Drudgery

Add to Favorites By Patrice Lewis Wool from Norway is justifiably famous for its fineness and beauty. But for sheep to produce wool, they must start as lambs. And lambs, …

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North to Alaska!

St. Croix sheep tend to conjure images of warm Caribbean islands, but a group recently made the long journey north to establish a breeding flock in Alaska.

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Spit in the Wind Sheep Farm

Add to Favorites By Alan Harman On a perfect Michigan spring day under clear blue skies you can’t miss them — Polypay lambs running around tree-lined lush green fields, or …

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Dual Coat Dynamics in Sheep

Many cultures point to dual-coated sheep as a key to survival, from the cold climate of Iceland to the deserts of Central Asia.

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Helping Stock Dogs Remember

Add to Favorites By Denice Rackley The last series of articles focused on our first few lessons on stock. We have been concerned about the ideal picture we were looking …

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