Orange honey pudding
Recipe of the Week
Orange honey pudding
Courtesy of
Sharon Freeman
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
3 Tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 cup honey
1 1/2 cups water
1 tsp. butter
1/8-1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup yogurt
3 Tbsp....
The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a draw
By James F. Deaton
Website Exclusive • January, 2006
The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on what became a fun project. After felling 4- to 8-inch...
Aunt Mildred’s honey cake
Recipe of the Week
Aunt Mildred’s honey cake
Courtesy of
Katherine Myers
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup honey
4 eggs
1 cup strong black coffee (cold)
1/2 cup chopped...
Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes
By Marjorie Burris
Issue #41 • September/October, 1996
That gentle nip in the autumn air feels pleasant to your cheeks, but it also means that one more tomato season is about to come to an end....
Small camp security
By Gary Lewis
Issue #148 • July/August, 2014
It might be a sleeping bag in a lean-to with a small warming fire at the entrance. It could be a wall tent with five or six hunters...
The Potato Hole
By Sylvia Gist
Issue #137 • September/October, 2012
Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags.
We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...
Potato soup
Recipe of the Week
Potato soup
Courtesy of
Alice Brantley Yeager
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
4 cups peeled, diced Irish (white) potatoes
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
3 Tbsp. flour
1...
A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play
By Jackie Clay
Issue #69 • May/June, 2001
There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...
How to tell a bad egg
By David Scott Matthews
Issue #53 • September/October, 1998
One of the things that my family loves most about living in the country is that we get to eat fresh eggs from our genuine free-range chickens....
Animal disease traceability
By Patrice Lewis
Issue #137 • September/October, 2012
In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment of individual liberty and those whose religious principles oppose microchipping.
They...
Fully Involved
By Diana Morgan
Issue #58 • July/August, 1999
A strident tone blasts me from sleep. I catch the words "fully involved" first time around. Where the heck are my glasses? Oh, God, I can't find my...
Firearms and cold weather considerations
By Massad Ayoob
Issue #79 • January/February, 2003
Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly draw the beachgoers. The older I get, the less the...
Apple slaw
Recipe of the Week
Apple slaw
Courtesy of
Anne Westbrook Dominick
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
4 cups shredded cabbage
2 large apples, cored and diced (not peeled)
1 small onion, minced
2 Tbsp....
Moderate power firearms
By Massad Ayoob
Issue #110 • March/April, 2008
Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of his most popular books, written on the latter topic, was...
A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home
By Scott Gentleman
Website Exclusive • November, 2007
For eight years, Tracey and I lived in a solar powered home and for eight cloudy winters, we ran a small Honda generator every week to recharge our...
Women and guns
By Massad Ayoob
Issue #121 • January/February, 2010
In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its goals in terms of equality and empowerment, the concept that...































