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Red Hot Gramcracker

I love apples, especially crisp, juicy, sweet tart ones. I don’t like apple pie (gasp, the horror!). Applesauce is okay, although I never buy it. I don’t like the texture and I don’t care much for brown cinnamon. Maybe that’s why I don’t like apple pie. Fortunately, for me, my mom took home economics in…
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twotravel

Green Stuff

If you’ve been reading The Henway lately, you’ve probably seen some of the “Epic Road Trip” series I’ve been posting, all about the family vacation that was also a personal pilgrimage as I discovered my heritage. Whilst on said road trip, we were spoiled nigh unto the point of rottenness by the amazing cooking of…
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rmr1984

Homemade Wheat Thins

I don’t know if it is just me, or if my tastes have changed, but the Wheat Thins that I have bought in the last year or so have tasted strange to me. I don’t know how to explain it, and like I said it could just be me, but I was really excited to…
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charleycooke

Cheesemaking Without Benefit of Mail Order – Part 2

In a previous post, Cheesemaking Without Benefit of Mail Order, I shared some information from a “back-to-basics” out-of-print cheesemaking manual. In this post, I’m sharing some of the soft cheese recipes. Fresh Curds: Printable The simplest cheese grandmother might have made would be fresh curds. These are made by setting fresh milk in the sun…
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twiggitygoats

Tea Isn’t Just For Sipping

Almost two years ago, RoseH posted her mother-in-law’s recipe for Tea Bread to the old Community Cookbook on the forum. Her mother-in-law used to make this bread as part of the Cricketers Tea, which is taken by the cricket teams half-way through the match on a (hopefully) sunny Sunday summer afternoon. I made the bread…
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cindyp

The Goats’ Christmas List

We have twelve little goats at Blue Silo Farm that are hoping for a little something extra at Christmas–maybe a special cookie. I found this recipe at Hobby Farms and it sounds like something they would really like to eat. For their Christmas list, in the addition to the cookies, the goats wanted electric blankets…
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grouchymama

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MSG free substitute for bouillon or granules used in cooking

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Marshmallows

Does anyone have a recipe for marshmallows?

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chumblytym

Fuitcake Cookies

My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this...
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pete

Sweet Pickled Crab Apples

When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I...
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