Irish coffee
Recipe of the Week
Irish coffee
Courtesy of
Ivan Brown
Thanks to Ivan for this recipe, which we present here as it was submitted, with just a few formatting changes for the web site.
St Patrick's Day is just...
Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees
By Jackie Clay
Issue #121 • January/February, 2010
Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that if I don't learn at least one thing every day,...
A brief history of health and medicine
By John Silveira
Issue #100 • July/August, 2006
As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today it is 77. Fifty years ago, the average life span...
Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1
By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM
Issue #99 • May/June, 2006
I have been writing solar power articles for many years on every possible application. This has included everything from simple solar chargers for cell phones to...
Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat guns
By Rev. J.D. Hooker
Issue #47 • September/October, 1997
Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No, we don't have much crime in our area; in fact...
Growing Microgreens
By Lisa Nourse
Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019
The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic produce during the winter months is difficult. I find myself...
Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?
By John Silveira
Issue #49 • January/February, 1998
It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I had gone fishing on the lake. Dave, of course, is...
Brooder in a box
By Sylvia Gist
Issue #80 • March/April, 2003
It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take them home. Or the breed you've always wanted has been...
Apple-Mango Scallops
Recipe of the Week
Apple-Mango Scallops
Courtesy of
Oliver Del Signore
Ingredients
1 pound sea Scallops
2 firm, tart Apples
1 medium Onion
1 ripe Mango
2 Tablesppons Olive Oil
2 Tablespoons Butter
Juice of one fresh Lemon
Salt & Pepper
Method
Rinse scallops and set aside. to...
Food security 101
By Rowena Aldridge
Issue #138 • November/December, 2012
These days a lot of people are concerned, and rightly so, about their family's economic stability and security. Recently I've become aware of the ways in which I,...
Build a stone wall
By Charles Sanders
Issue #70 • July/August, 2001
The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years. There is a soothing permanence that can be seen in...
Chicken and dumpling stew
Recipe of the Week
Chicken and dumpling stew
Courtesy of
Richard Blunt
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Stew Ingredients:
1 cooked, skinned, and boned 5-6 lb. chicken (cut meat into 1/2-inch pieces)
8...
Armed civilians can help fight terrorism
By Massad Ayoob
Issue #90 • November/December, 2004
This article was written before terrorists seized a school in Beslan, a town in North Ossetia, one of the small republics that make up the modern Russian Federation....
A river rock shower
By Dorothy Ainsworth
Issue #77 • September/October, 2002
The finished shower weighs a ton
and cost about $800.
Cultured stones, made of pumice and portland cement, weigh about half as much as river rocks.
Notched-trowel texturing in the mortar...
Quince preserves
Recipe of the Week
Quince preserves
Courtesy of
Jackie Clay
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
3 cups sugar
2 qts. water
7 cups pared, cored, quartered quinces
Method
When preparing quinces, discard all gritty parts....
Corned Beef Cakes
Recipe of the Week
Corned Beef Cakes
Courtesy of
Eugene Mora
Ingredients
1 (7 ounce) can corned beef
1 pound sweet potatoes or yams
1 small onion, chopped
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup milk
2 cups bread crumbs for coating
1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
1...
