Over the last several weeks, box after box has been arriving at the farm. My dad had decided to start brewing beer, in the name of testing the hops he grows. It is rather silly as no one in my family drinks alcohol. I saw a better opportunity in the pile of equipment he had […]
Homemade Root Beer Soda, Yeast vs CO2 carbonation Read More »
As someone who drinks prodigious quantities of hot cocoa, in addition to baking, I use a lot of cocoa. It wasn’t until my friend Meg beat me making brownies – using my own recipe but with a better cocoa, that I realized just how much the quality and type of a cocoa can make a
Taking fresh fruit and turning it into jelly takes rather a long time. Is it worth the time? Yes, I believe so since I generally enjoy the process and the end product. But this time around I was curious what the value of the time was, financially. Comparative Cost of Store-Bought Jelly 1 cup of
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Willow bark is definitely the most common herbal medicine in any fiction book. No doubt that is because the very common real drug aspirin is directly related to it, so we all feel comfortable prescribing it. Which of course means I need to try it. It is really quite simple. Strip the inner bark from
Also available in cinnamon – kaneli, the cardamom roll is closely related to the cardamom bread we ate frequently as children in my family, which Kelly in particular loved. It’s a sweet bread with cardamom, nothing too complicated there. While related as well to the American cinnamon roll, the American versus the Swedish cinnamon bulle
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