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Bread Baking Tips
Below are some of the top tips when baking bread. Fell free to share some of your own in the comments section below. 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 [...]
Loaf Pans to Use When Making Bread
If you’re going to bake bread, you’ll need loaf pans on hand – the more, the merrier. Once your family tastes what you can do they won’t want store-bought bread anymore so you’ll be baking lots of loaves of fresh bread every week. Shortly thereafter, the word will get out to your friends and extended [...]
Wire Cooling Rack for Baking
Want to know the one thing that can make or break how delicious your home made bread turns out – it’s the wire cooling rack! In fact I’d say the wire cooling rack is essential to delicious bread. Without these your bread might overcook, or worse, end up with soggy bottoms. Yuck! These tight meshed [...]
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 [...]
Country Wood Stove
If you have the notion that you’d love a woodstove in your home or in your kitchen, there’s a few things I want to share with you. The Wood Stove Is The Heart of Your Country Home Yes, it is wonderful to get off the grid, even if by just a little. Home heating and [...]
Wine Making Kit
If you’re just starting out making wine at home you’ll likely want to begin with a wine making kit. This makes life so much easier for the beginning hobbyist. There will be no last minute rushes to the wine supply store or ordering express delivery of one or two items that you didn’t think you’d [...]
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 [...]
