By Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
Vinegar pie is about as old-fashioned as you can get, it hails from the pioneer days and early settlers when they wanted a sweet treat and no fruit or other pie filling makings were available. This also has a relative shorter baking time than compared to apple pies, making it easier for a homestead cook […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Breakfast , Recipes , Sides
This fried apples and onions recipe is about as old-fashioned and pioneer as you can get. Plus, apples bacon and onions is a wonderful fall trio of flavor. Who knew that apples and onions go together like peanut butter and jelly? Mother Wilder sure did. As a matter of fact, this dish was one of […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Recipes , Vintage
Slightly sweet, delicious, and perfect for pancakes, waffles, or over desserts, this homemade rosewater syrup is so easy to make! Did you know that many roses are edible? And, they make delicious treats, too! This used to be a common place in pioneer and cottage kitchens, but in the span of a century, has almost […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
An old-fashioned blueberry pudding recipe with a rosewater sauce straight from Almanzo’s Ma’s kitchen and the Little House Cookbook. Are you loving this series as much as I am? When early pioneers found fresh fruit, they collected and used as much as they could. Waste not, want not was their mantra. In the Mid-West, blueberries […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Recipes
This ginger water recipe dates back to the pioneer days. While ginger water seems to be trending now in the health/diet world it’s an old-fashioned drink. After a hot summer’s day, when all you can think about is grabbing a cold glass of water to quench your thirst, you may want to reconsider. Grab this […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
A fried donut recipe, no yeast, and about as old-fashioned homemade donut recipe as you can get when it hails from the Little House Cookbook. This is our second recipe in our Cooking Like Ma Ingall’s series! Back in the early pioneer days, there was no Dunkin Donuts, or Krispy Kreme to grab a snack […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Main Dish , Recipes
Want the secret to making delicious homestyle fried chicken using even older birds? This crispy fried chicken is a crowd pleaser! Back in the pioneer days, wasting food was unheard of. If you raised it, you used it in every way, shape, and form. Older birds that were done laying became dinner themselves, cows went […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Main Dish , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Recipes
Purple dead nettle is easily foraged, when springtime rolls around, you are sure to find dead nettle all over. Not only is it easy to find, but it’s great addition to your natural medicine cabinet as well as culinary, making it a top pick on the homesteading bucket list. Because let’s be honest, a plant […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Podcast , Pressure Canning , Recipes , Water Bath
Preserving rhubarb is one of my favorite spring forays, especially canning rhubarb. My heart can’t help but love rhubarb, a vegetables that lends itself as a fruit and is one of the first things we can harvest in the spring, long before my berries and fruit trees produce. It makes a mean dessert, excellent sauce […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Recipes
Christmas stovetop potpourri will have your house smelling amazing without any harmful or synthetic fragrances. Best part, you can mix and match items you likely already have in your pantry and homestead to customize and make it frugal. I love Christmas, in no small part because I love how warm and cozy it is. I […]
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