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Best Baking Apples For Pie, Kuchen, and Dumplings
Add to Favorites When my kids were little, I wore out the phrase “A is for apples.” It started when we planted an orchard of apple trees across from our …
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A Caramel Pear Crumble Recipe
Add to Favorites This pear crumble recipe was inspired by the big old pear tree in our front yard. Our neighbors planted it when they built our house more than …
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5 Easy Snacks to Make at Home: No Refrigeration Needed
Add to Favorites As the school year begins, it’s always fun to have some new recipes for easy snacks to make at home. I wanted to share some of the …
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How to Make Vanilla Extract
Add to Favorites Learning how to make vanilla extract is easy. And if you start by late summer, you can make a superior homemade vanilla extract gift, perfect for anyone …
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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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Cooking Duck Breasts
Add to Favorites Photos & Story By Janice Cole, Minnesota If you’re looking for something special to serve this holiday season, think duck. That is, duck breasts. Yes, you can …
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Spring Soup Recipes
Try these spring soup recipes perfect for Lent and Passover.
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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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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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Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
Add to Favorites Makes 7 quarts 14 pounds of tomatoes run through strainer (weigh them before straining) 1 cup of olive oil …
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Your Wool as Yarn
Add to Favorites By Virginia Scholomiti Let’s get down to the nuts and bolts of understanding where and how your fleece may fit into a hand spinner’s palette. This is …
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Cider Vinegar to Treat White Muscle Disease
Add to Favorites By Laurie Ball-Gisch – The summer of 2002 was the first time I encountered White Muscle Disease in our flock of purebred Icelandic sheep. It affected two …
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Raise Meat Sheep Breeds to Boost Profits
Add to Favorites By Dr. Elizabeth Ferraro – There is a growing trend today away from the very large sheep ranches specializing in meat sheep breeds toward an increasing number …
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How To Select Canning Jars
Add to Favorites By Gail Damerow Canning jars come in two main categories, depending on the diameter of the opening. A narrow mouth jar, also known as a regular or …
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Learn How to Make Flavored Vinegar
Add to Favorites By Rita Heikenfeld and Erin Phillips – Remember when buying vinegar meant choosing between distilled, clear grain vinegar, cider, and a few choices of red and white …
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