Dehydrating eggs at home
By Patrice Lewis
Issue #156 • November/December, 2015
Here's a trivia question for you: What do you do when your chickens are laying gangbusters and you have no less than 10 dozen eggs in the fridge,...
Ashe Torsh
Recipe of the Week
Ashe Torsh
Courtesy of
Callie Musa
Ingredients
Meatballs:
1/2 pound ground beef
2 tablespoons grated onion
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
Soup:
8 cups water...
Four Pepper Pheasant
Recipe of the Week
Four Pepper Pheasant
Courtesy of
Danielle Nathanson
Ingredients
2 medium Pheasants (about 3-1/2 pounds each)
2 oranges, halved
8 to 10 thick slices fatty bacon
Four-pepper mix:
1 tablespoon whole red peppercorns
1 tablespoon whole...
Apples and sweet potatoes
Anne Westbrook Dominick
Ingredients
3 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 1/2 lbs. sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced
1/4 cup apple juice, cider or vinegar
1 Tbsp. melted butter
Method
Mix apples and lemon juice. In a baking...
Peanut Soup
Recipe of the Week
Peanut Soup
Courtesy of
Marylin Dede
Ingredients
3 cups Chicken Broth or Stock
1 cup Peanut Butter, natural & unsweetened**
1 small Onion, minced
1 small sweet green Pepper, minced
1 clove Garlic, crushed and minced...
Crabapple jelly
Recipe of the Week
Crabapple jelly
Courtesy of
Charles A. Sanders
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
3 lbs. crabapples (about 10 cups, cut up)
4 cups water
2 cups sugar
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
1...
Fermented dill pickles
Recipe of the Week
Fermented dill pickles
Courtesy of
Olivia Miller
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
50-60 smooth small cucumbers
1 oz. whole mixed spices
dill
1 lb. pure salt
1 gallon water
1 pint cider...
Baking Bread
By Linda Gabris
Issue #168 • November/December, 2017
Growing up in the rural woods miles away from the nearest country store, store-bought bread was seldom seen in Grandma’s house. So to keep up with demand, she...
Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake
Recipe of the Week
Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake
Courtesy of
Edwina Gower
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Cake Ingredients
1 butter cake mix (or yellow)
1 can mandarin oranges
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
Filling...
Solar Food Drying
By Marcella Shaffer
Issue #58 • July/August, 1999
The oldest known method of food preservation is drying food using the heat from the sun. Unfortunately it has become the least used as freezers and pressure canners...
Potato Bread
Recipe of the Week
Potato Bread
Courtesy of
Dolly Wilcox
Ingredients
15 cups whole wheat Flour
1 medium Potato, peeled
2 cups Water
1 teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup white Sugar
1/3 cup Oil OR Shortening
1 tablespoon...
Lazy housewife pickles
Recipe of the Week
Lazy housewife pickles
Courtesy of
Jackie Clay
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
4 qts. small cucumbers
1 cup dry mustard
1 cup sugar
1 cup salt
1 gallon vinegar
Method
Wash the cucumbers,...
Venison Chili
Recipe of the Week
Venison Chili
Courtesy of
Jolene Shelton
Ingredients
1 pound ground Venison
3 cans Pinto Beans, drained
3 small Chili Peppers (hot or mild)
½ to 1 cup Cheddar Cheese, shredded
1 large Onion, chopped
4 Beef Boullion cubes
2...
Switch your family to goat’s milk
By Tanya Kelley
Issue #128 • March/April, 2011
If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat milk does taste different than cow milk. So? Different doesn't...
Dragon’s breath chili
Recipe of the Week
Dragon’s breath chili
Courtesy of
Rodney Merrill
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
1/3 lb. kidney beans
1/3 lb. pinto beans
1/3 lb. navy beans
6 cups water
2 medium onions, chopped
1...
