By 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 , Canning , Food Preservation , 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 […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Bread , Recipes
This cranberry muffins recipe allows you to take what you have on hand in your pantry and create These Cranberry-Nut “Everything” Muffins to make a delicious, nutritious and convenient grab and go snack over the busy holiday season, or any time of year! As far back as I can remember, I’ve always looked forward to […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast , Recipes
12 baking substitutions every kitchen, especially a homestead kitchen, needs to know about. One of the things I pride myself on is not running to the store and having a well-stocked larder to cook and bake things from scratch. But even with the best of intentions, you know it happens. When you start a recipe […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Canning , Canning , Food Preservation , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Sides , Water Bath
Homemade spiced cranberry sauce put those tinned canned jelled versions to shame. And you wouldn’t expect anything less than from scratch cranberry sauce pioneer woman style on a homesteading blog and podcast entitled Pioneering Today, am I right? You’re in for a treat today because Anna is sharing her best homemade cranberry sauce recipe today […]
Read MoreBy Michelle | Bread , Breakfast , Healthy Snacks , Main Dish , Miscellaneous , Recipes , Sides
144 zucchini recipes, because let’s face it, zucchini is probably the most prolific summer vegetable in the garden. Do you have zucchini coming out your ears? Yeah, me too. It seems most families have one or two ways they cook zucchini and that’s about it. Michelle says “I grew up with it pan fried. That’s […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Canning , Food Preservation , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes
Spicy peach jam is one you can’t miss this canning season, especially when it’s a peach jam recipe without pectin. This sweet and hot chipotle peach jam makes an amazing accompaniment to cheese platters, as a sticky marinade on grilled or roasted meats, a dipping condiment for grilled cheese (oh ya, I did that at […]
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