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How To Make Pectin From Scratch

How To Make Pectin From Scratch

Warm weather often means jam-making time at my house. Raspberry jam is my particular favorite, but I make a big stock of strawberry for my husband too. Jams and conserves are among the simplest canning projects to undertake. All you ...

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Food Drying 101

Food Drying 101

Long before pressure canners or water-bath-canners existed, people preserved food by drying it. In fact, anthropologists have found dried corn and squash dating more than 6,000 years ago in ancient caves and dwellings. Home-canned foods do have a certain charm. ...

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How To Process Your Big Game Animal

How To Process Your Big Game Animal

Big game hunting can provide you and your family with a lot of high-quality natural meat. If you choose to process it yourself, you have even more control over your food supply. Processing your own big game animal is not ...

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“Old-Fashioned” Energy Storage

“Old-Fashioned” Energy Storage

Tapping into power is one thing, but sustaining the energy and using it full time is quite another.  Regardless of the type of energy source you use (ideally more than one in conjunction with each other to create a genuinely ...

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Building Up a Root Cellar

Building Up a Root Cellar

Root vegetables are like the backup calorie base.  They can add bulk and nutrition when the “pantry” cannot (like when you are sick of bread).  Used in conjunction with the pantry items (flour, fats, grains, starches, etc.), the root vegetables ...

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How To Dehydrate Food For Storage

How To Dehydrate Food For Storage

Why Dry? Dehydration is one of several ways to store food. The process involves removing most of the water from food by using heat. Heat, regardless of the source, kills bacteria in the food. Bacteria are what cause food to ...

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Prepper Kitchen 101: Wheat Basics

Prepper Kitchen 101: Wheat Basics

Wheat is one of those ubiquitous foods that allow for so much variety, and packs an amazingly hefty protein and calorie punch too. Unless you need to find a gluten-free alternative (in which case you might want to think about ...

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