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Add Lavender to the Meringue Cookies!

I have another easy recipe using my Lavender Sugar for you! Assuming you have some appliance on hand to whip the egg whites. Because you must whip it. Whip it good. How to make Lavender Sugar Meringue Cookies: Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Set oven racks so you can get in 2 cookie sheets at…
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laree

Variations on Perfection

Suzanne’s Grandmother Bread can be used a billion and one ways. I doubt I could list all the different ways, even if I was creative enough to think of them. Suzanne could. I would webstalk her like she was Nora Roberts, given the chance. Moving on– By adding an egg to the basic Grandmother Bread…
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laree

Cookery 101: Herbs & Spices

Using herbs and spices in your dishes is a great way to give them a boost. I’ve always had a problem of knowing which herb to use with what dish. One of Mom’s old cookbooks had a list of different herbs and spices and which dishes to use them in. I typed a “cheat sheet”…
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Making Lard

A few weeks ago, I got this pig fat from our butcher. I know. Isn’t it beautiful?! The pig fat was free. Here is a sometimes little known fact. You can get lard for free, as long as you’re willing to make it. You don’t even need a pig! Which, WOW, makes it so much…
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Bottling Wine

All four of my organic wines have finished making and are ready to bottle! Not only are they all four ready to bottle, they are ready to drink! I tasted them at the last racking and they were all delicious, even the dandelion and it is only about 10 months old. I can only attribute…
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runningtrails

Wonderful, Wonderful Salsa

I used to spend a nice little chunk of change on a brand name of salsa that we particularly loved. As a canner, I knew that I could can my own salsa, but every attempt, every recipe, just fell far short of the flavor we loved and expected. Four or five years ago I ran…
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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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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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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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