Q and A: drying citrus peels and storing smoked meats
Drying citrus peels
Now that citrus season is here how do I dry the skins from oranges, lemons, grapefruit, etc. I don't have a dryer. I know they are expensive to buy the peels.
Brandy Gunderson
Wyoming,...
Q and A: frozen melon and canning hominy
Frozen melon
Our cantaloupe produced wonderfully last summer. My wife was able to freeze a bunch of it. My wife uses the frozen melon in smoothies and ice cream and such. But we still have...
With warmer weather we’ve been busy
Of course, that's nothing new, but it is so nice to be outside on nice days. Our fruit trees are budding, including the Chestnut crab that we love and thought the voles had killed...
Q and A: feeding pumpkins to cattle, making bread, and trimming pigs’ feet
Feeding pumpkins to cattle
How do you feed pumpkins to cattle? Do you chop it, cook it, or just throw it into feed troughs whole? I grew some mangels so how do you feed those.
Gail
Palisade,...
QandA: Preserving shortening and Homemade V8 juice
Preserving shortening
I've read you can preserve solid shortening, thereby extending shelf life by melting and pouring in jars and vacuum sealing. Do you know if doing this with liquid oil like olive oil would...