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That's where I got the idea :lol:. I had been freezing them before that, and was never quite happy with the results. I stop giving/selling any eggs from my small flock in Sept./Oct., and just let them collect in the fridge in the garage. I mark the date that each carton's contents are...

First of all - the second "S" in the title refers to "silly", so please, nobody take offense ;). Second - this is not aimed at anyone specific; I am just commenting on things I have read - a few times on SS, but more often other places on the web. And third - I have put this topic in the...

I've never made soap, but I have a hard time imagining a cost effective way to make soap out of expensive butter. I think "in the old days" the off cuts from fatty meat were rendered down for soap.

Moolie, everything I have read also says to use unsalted butter. But since I had this salted butter given me, and had a hard time imagining using it for anything else (I have a major sensitivity to salt in food; what other people find acceptable, or perhaps even undersalted, is often too salty...

I have also heard many good things about ghee, and have planned to make it ... but never did. Then, last summer, a friend came to visit, and (as we were the last stop before going home) left most of her travel food with us. Part of that was most of a pound of salted butter. I don't use salted...

Google "Victorian Pharmacy" you tube. They had a segment on just that, though I don't remember exactly how much detail they gave.

Addendum to my previous post --- all of my Tatlers have been used while pressure canning, probably about 4 dozen, and they have all remained sealed.

I haven't had any of my Tattler lids fail so far - either fail to seal at the time of canning, or later, on the shelf. But now you make me think that I should check them all again, just to be sure :rolleyes:

At my last house I had masses of violets, but the most I ever did was candy them, and enjoy them in teeny, tiny bouquets. But here are a couple of recipes that look sort of fun: Violet jelly: http://www.prairielandherbs.com/violetjelly.htm Violet syrup...

I took the green silk when shucking, not the brown, and dried it gently in the dehydrator. I don't remember where I read that this can be helpful. I remembered last night that another thing that I have found helpful in the past for UTIs is the herb Uva Ursi. I keep a dropper bottle of...

I keep cranberries in the freezer for just this reason, though I have read that to be effective you really need to drink unsweetened cranberry juice! I know this would be a problem for some (many!), so the pills would definitely be easier. (Though I quite like unsweetened cranberry, in small...

Emerald, congratulations! I have the Family grain mill as well, and am quite happy with it - although it did NOT clamp to my counter (not enough overhang). I ended up buying a small-ish wheeled kitchen "island", which is actually great because I can park it in a little used corner, and I keep...

May I put on my teacher hat for a moment? Pennsylvania Dutch is German, but rather in the same way that American English is English. The original settlers that came to Pennsylvania from Germany were mostly from the area called Rheinland Pfalz or, in English, Rheinland Palatinate. (Its the...

Vinegar happens naturally, given the right conditions; this is the reason that most apple juice is pasteurized, and sulfites are put into wine - to stop the process. To make ACV I bought some apples and ran them through my juicer (I would have bought unpasteurized cider, had it been Autumn)...

This partly depends on how humid your climate is. For all the jokes about how it always rains in Oregon, during the summer it is actually quite dry here; we get our humidity in the winter. So I store most of my dehydrated foods in glass jars alone. Sometimes I use the the vacuum sealer, but...

Making apple cider vinegar yourself is easy, though it does take time. If anyone is interested I'll be happy to post how I do it. Of course, it won't help if you are suffering a shortage now, but once you have it you can keep it going indefinitely.

Interesting idea, but I think I will just keep using my whisk and wooden spoon. No more work for me - whisk as opposed to cranking - and definitely cheaper!

Cauliflower, and celery root are also good substitutes. We like them both mashed, and cauliflower makes an interesting rice-like option -- google cauliflower rice. I quite like rutabagas and turnips, DH not so much, so we are introducing them slowly. I am down about 4# from about 10 days ago...

Isn't it annoying how some people can lose weight with hardly a thought, and the rest of us have to work hard to more or less stay where we are? My DH used to be one of those too, but has lost that ability as he has got older. Poor guy; I think it is even harder on him because he never had to...

Chantilly, for every person on this forum (I am willing to bet) there is a different goal they have set for themselves, and a different way they are getting there. Wherever you are is a good place to start. I started in the middle of a big city with only a dream - I was newly married, and...