You’ll Succeed Every Time You Bake a Loaf of Bread if You Follow These Simple Rules. The fundamental thing to keep in mind is that bread baking goes beyond the chemistry and physics of cooking. It enters into an area best described as alchemy. You’re engaged in bringing a living … [Read more...]
Easy French Bread in 10 Minutes for 30 CENTS
Here’s a way to make French bread in just 10 minutes of working time. The rest of the time, the bread is rising or the oven is doing the work. You can watch the whole process in this video by Big Family Homestead, but we'll share the recipe and some cooking tips. Want to … [Read more...]
How To Make And Pressure Can Chili
Both making and pressure canning homemade chili can be done in a single afternoon. Preserving chili will make it shelf-stable for at least two years and increase your protein-rich food stockpiles far more economically than buying commercially manufactured packets or … [Read more...]
How To Make Portable Soup
Ever heard of portable soup before? You might be surprised to learn that it was very popular back in the 18th century. It's basically a solidified broth to which you can add hot water and quickly make soup. It's also called portable broth, pocket soup, veal glue, and many other … [Read more...]
How To Make Cheese (Easier Than You Think)
Cheesemaking is easy to do once you understand the ingredients, some of which might surprise you. The primary active ingredient that’s usually used to make cheese is "rennet." It’s an enzyme found in the stomach of young cows, sheep, and goats. The rennet helps them break down … [Read more...]
6 Pioneer Candy Recipes To Try This Halloween
For Our Pioneer Ancestors, The Only Candy Store Was At Home. We take candy for granted. We can buy it anywhere, and it’s usually pretty cheap. But there was a time when it was a rare treat. Back in the 1800s, candy only showed up around the holidays or special events like a … [Read more...]
The Easy Way To Make Oat Milk
You may have seen new milk products in the store or at your favorite coffee shop recently. Apart from the standards of cow or goat milk, there are also soy, almond, cashew, and coconut milk. This recent trend to find new milk sources stems from those who are allergic to dairy or … [Read more...]
Perpetual Soup: A Pioneer ‘Recipe’ That Never Ends
It May Be One of the Most Nutritious Soups You’ll Ever Eat and if You Own a Crockpot, It’s a Cinch. Perpetual soup is a broth-based soup that is simmered for days, weeks, months, and even years. In fact, there are stories about broths in China and Japan that have simmered … [Read more...]
How To Make Garlic Powder At Home
Garlic powder is definitely one of the most important ingredients in my kitchen. I use it when making chili, meatloaf, spaghetti, casseroles, and all sorts of other dishes. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It on Pinterest! Why make it at home when you can … [Read more...]
Pioneer Recipes That Still Taste Great Today
Can you imagine what it was like to live on the Oregan trail, cooking pioneer recipes every day? Some have a romantic fantasy about cooking over an open fire, but those times were also scary. You usually cooked over an open fire with wildlife all around. Families had to cook … [Read more...]
4 Homemade Extract Recipes (With & Without Alcohol)
If you’re an avid baker or cook, chances are you’ve either used extracts or come across recipes calling for extracts. High-quality commercially available products are expensive, hard to come by, and often come with additives, preservatives, and ingredients whose origin is … [Read more...]
How To Make Amish White Bread
When I was a kid, my mom always bought us the super healthy and nutritious whole grain wheat bread... and I hated it. I was one of those kids who always wanted plain white bread. And thirty years later, I still feel the same. Although I've developed a taste for wheat bread, I … [Read more...]
5 Meals That Feed 10 People For Only $5
If you have a big family, then you have a big grocery bill. Figuring out how to feed half a dozen or more people every single day without breaking the bank can be a huge challenge. The folks at Big Family Homestead are very familiar with this challenge. Over the years they've … [Read more...]
How To Make Delicious Probiotic Lemonade
If you have digestive problems of any kind, probiotics might be the solution. My husband suffered from gastritis for years. It's like acid reflux, only the acid eats away at the lining of your stomach instead of your throat. He tried all sorts of supposed remedies, but the … [Read more...]
How to Make Beef Jerky in an Air Fryer
Beef jerky happens to be one of my husband’s favorite snacks, and I sure love some homemade beef jerky as well. When our dehydrator died over a year ago, I realized that we wouldn’t have jerky for some time. At Christmastime, I researched new choices for an air fryer for my … [Read more...]
Poor Man’s Steak Recipe (Cabbage, Garlic & Butter)
Over the past few years, my husband and I have been trying to cut costs and save for retirement. When you get to be middle-aged and realize how fast time goes by, you start developing a sense of urgency about things like that. Anyway, one of the main ways we've managed to save … [Read more...]
The World’s Oldest Bread Recipe – Just 3 Ingredients
People have been making bread for thousands of years. In fact, there is evidence of people making bread as far back as 30,000 years ago. Unfortunately, prehistoric men didn't write down their bread recipes on clay tablets. However, we have a good idea of what those recipes … [Read more...]
