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How to Make Wine – The Basic Steps
Below I’ll share with you the process and tools involved in making wine at home. You can find more information and resources here – make homemade wine.
The Process Behind Homemade Wine
On a previous page we discussed how to make a variety of homemade wines. The top two choices of how to make wine [...] -
How to Make Butter the Modern Way
Can you believe for a moment that you can make your own butter without growing muscles the size of the Incredible Hulk?
It’s true. There’s a modern way to make butter that is easy on the arms and tastes just as good as butter in the old days on the farm.
This modern-day tried and true ‘how [...] -
Basic Herb Candy Recipe
Expert Linda Parker submitted this recipe a few years back, just in time for the cold and flu season, and visitors have been raving about it ever since!
Linda used horehound to make the herbal tea (which she grows in her Salt Lake City back garden). Horehound is a prescribed natural remedy for colds so it’s [...]
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Country Cooking Tips and Recipes
Love Chai Tea? Then You’ll Love These Cookies
If you love the various blended spices in chai teas and lattes, you love these somewhat biscotti, somewhat shortbread, crescents.
The recipe makes about 2 dozen crescent shaped cookies. Prepare dough in advance.
Cookies
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
3 tbsp. sugar
1 cup flour, plus extra for rolling dough
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of salt
1/2 cup toasted pecans or [...]
Favorite Christmas Cookies – Chocolate Orange
A few years back I decided to try some new cookie recipes for the holidays. They had to work for large batches, be freeze-able without loss of quality or flavor for up to a month, and be able to ‘wow’ all of my friends – some of who are quite picky and particular about the [...]
Read moreEasy Homemade Bread – Free Recipe
It’s been called the “best free bread recipe on the Internet”…
This recipe was originally published on GoodByeCityLife in 1999. In a redesign in September 2009 the formatting may be off. If so, please visit again next week and I will have it fixed by then.
No Knead French Baguette
This makes delicious small crusty loaves. Golden brown [...]
Read moreBread Baking Tips
Oiled Bread Bowls and Pans
When a recipe calls for oiled or greased pans or bowls you are best sticking to vegetable based oils – namely margarine, vegetable or olive oil or shortening.
A greased bowl with dairy or animal based oil (butter, lard) might go rancid or coat the yeast molecules too heavily to ensure rising.
A [...]
Cooling Racks for Home Made Bread
Imperative to Delicious Homemade Bread
Wire racks are essential to successful bread-making after they come out of the oven and pan.
Due to the high temperature at baking, bread continues to ‘cook’ even though it is removed from the oven.
Taking bread out of the pan and onto a wire rack ensures that cooling air can flow [...]
In Search of the Perfect Bowl
Believe it or not, your success when baking bread relies heavily on the bowl you mix and allow your dough to rise in.
Glass, pottery or ceramic is best.
Plastic, on the other hand, is the worst.
Plastic bowls often hide bacteria, flavors and smells in tiny surface nicks. The bacteria alone can kill your yeast culture. [...]
Too Much Zucchini in the Garden?
My favorite recipes for this versatile veggie…
Far too often our garden surprises us and puts up far more of a certain vegetable than we thought possible! Zucchini is such a vegetable – thankfully we’ve got the best recipes to share when this happens to you!
First off, this country living site has a "Did you know [...]
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