Today's Homestead: Volume I (Paperback)

Today's Homestead: Volume I (Paperback)
By Dona Grant

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With skyrocketing food prices, lower product availability, and an increasing amount of food-born illnesses associated with mass produced foods, wouldn't it be great to produce your own safe, wholesome foods for your family? Would you like to offset rising fuel prices by safely and securely burning wood to heat your home and cook your meals? "Today's Homestead" will teach you how! Within these volumes you'll learn how to raise your own beef, extract your own honey, and manage your own orchard. If you've ever wanted to know how to braid your own rugs, or make your own yeast, how to pick a healthy calf at the sale barn, or incubate your own turkey eggs, it's all included in these books. Whether you have one acre or one hundred acres, "Today's Homestead" can help you be more self-sufficient. Volume 1 of "Today's Homestead" has all the basics, from home food preservation to proper food storage, as well as basic cheese making, soap making, and candle making, including how to make a cheese press, or candle dipping frame. "Today's Homestead" is the complete guide to homesteading for a more secure future in these increasingly insecure times. Read more

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Norpro canning lid Rack (Kitchen)

Norpro canning lid Rack (Kitchen)
By Norpro

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Norpro's canning lid rack is an essential canning tool that provides a quick and easy way to sterilize your canning lids. Water circulates freely around the lids to sterilize them completely. The canning lid sterilizer holds up to 12 regular or wide mouth canning lids. Handle removes for storage. Read more

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Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (Paperback)

Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (Paperback)
By U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

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Practical, easy-to-follow guide contains virtually everything consumers need to know about home canning: how to select, prepare, and can fruits, vegetables, poultry, red meats and seafoods; how to preserve fruit spreads, fermented foods, and pickled vegetables; how to prepare foods for special diets, and much more. Read more

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Presto 22-Quart Aluminum Pressure Cooker/Canner (Kitchen)

Presto 22-Quart Aluminum Pressure Cooker/Canner (Kitchen)
By Presto

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Pressure canning, the only method recommended safe by the USDA for canning low-acid foods, allows you to preserve meats, vegetables, and fruits. Presto pressure canners feature an easy-to-read dial gauge for accurate pressure control and extra strong, warp-resistant aluminum construction. The air vent/cover lock allows pressure to build only when the cover is closed properly and prevents the cover from opening until pressure is safely reduced. Includes cooking/canning rack and complete instruction/recipe book. 22-quart liquid capacity (20.9 liters). Read more

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Homesteading for Beginners Volume One DVD (DVD)

Homesteading for Beginners Volume One DVD (DVD)
By Homesteading for Beginners

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Journey with this city-gone-country family as they share with you some basic homesteading skills that anyone can master. In this DVD you will learn everything from gardening, milking a cow, raising chickens, to making butter and cheese. Read more

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A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game (Paperback)

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game (Paperback)
By Wilbur F. Eastman

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This no-nonsense guide to canning, freezing, curing, and smoking meat, fish, and game is written in down-to-earth, informative, everyday language. The third edition of this perennial bestseller is completely revised and updated to comply with the latest USDA health and safety guidelines. Includes dozens of delicious recipes for homemade Beef Jerky, Pemmican, Venison Mincemeat, Corned Beef, Gepockelete (German-style cured pork), Bacon, Canadian Bacon, Smoked Sausage, Liverwurst, Bologna, Pepperoni, Fish Chowder, Cured Turkey, and a variety of hams. Learn tasty pickling methods for tripe, fish, beef, pork, and oysters. An excellent resource for anyone who loves meat but hates the steroids and chemicals in commercially available products. Read more

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Good Home Preserving: Delicious Jams, Jellies, Chutneys, Pickles, Curds, Cheeses, Relishes, Ketchups - Make Them at Home (Paperback)

Good Home Preserving: Delicious Jams, Jellies, Chutneys, Pickles, Curds, Cheeses, Relishes, Ketchups - Make Them at Home (Paperback)
By Diana Peacock

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This book will show you how to preserve our wonderful spring, summer and autumn harvests, so that you can enjoy nature's bounty even in the sparser months. From drying, bottling and freezing to simple jams, jellies, curds, cheeses, relishes, syrups and chutneys, all you will ever need to know is explained simply and clearly in this comprehensive guide to home preserving. As well as being fun, rewarding and easier than you might think to produce your own preserves, you won't believe the difference between the flavour of shop-bought products and your own home-made produce where the raw materials are as fresh as you can get. In this book you'll also find tasty recipes for using your home-made preserves in your cooking, from Tomato Chutney and Wensleydale Tart to Winter Conserve Roly Poly. Read more

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Bormioli Rocco Quattro Stagioni 33 3/4 Canning Bottle, Set of 12 (Kitchen)

Bormioli Rocco Quattro Stagioni 33 3/4 Canning Bottle, Set of 12 (Kitchen)
By Bormioli Rocco Glass Co., Inc.

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The fine tradition of the Bormioli Rocco Group coincides with the very history of glass: the first glassworks was established in Parma in 1825. The company has always demonstrated a great drive to pioneer innovation: in machinery, materials and design. Over the years it has developed a special talent, that of combining time-honoured craftsmanship and the passion of master glassmakers with modern industrial processes. Bormioli Rocco is the leading company in its sector in Italy and a great ambassador of the Made in Italy label on international markets Read more

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Small Canning Jars with Lids [Bormioli Rocco-336530S05021990]

Small Canning Jars with Lids [Bormioli Rocco-336530S05021990]

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