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Actually, it is all about 1) safe food 2) safe food handling practices 3)cleanliness and personal hygiene Even in my instruction book for the All American canner, it states that botulism spores are on the food and good washing practices will eliminate most of them. If you have grown your own...

Know your source is a very important point. Cannot fault your reasoning one bit.

Dirty pool. :drool

ORCHiCK When it comes to Aunt Bertha's food stash, the debate is still on. She passed many years ago, but her freezers are legendary. The argument goes on, long into the night as to whether or not the family has an extrordinarily strong constitution, God was smiling upon us or she just maybe...

Moolie, Paranoia is a strong word. I agree with your assesment so I will change that to scared silly. Again you are correct with the sauteeing of the cabbage because of its characteristics, but there may be some wiggle room with this recipe and the fact that it is being canned. I have a few...

I would not suggest that you do anything you are not completely comfortable with, but I have read the modern canning books and they are rife with paranoia. Any one who has ever eaten at Aunt Bertha's place and lived to tell about it (everyone has survived into middle age and beyond) will know...

You have me drooling. That would go really well with my smoked ham and be a nice change from sour krout. I do believe I am going to give it shot with canning as well. I have some old German cookbooks and will give them a look see for any suggestions.

We drink boat loads of the stuff. We have 5 Jersey cows and 2 heifer calves that will have to pried out of my cold dead fingers. According to the Canadian government, it will be death by moo juice. I am doing my best to prove them right but it just isn't working out.

Maybe you missed where I said "small farmer". Meat cannot be sold outside of the province it has been inspected in and try finding a federal abatoir within spitting distance or anywhere else that will even consider taking the little guy's meat. Not going to happen. They buy your meat at their...

Here in Ontario we have had drought. The corn and soy crops suck, I am told, and there is no hay or pasture. The price of cattle has dropped like a stone from just 2 months ago when for once, the prices had us all hoping, and they are going lower as we are all forced to sell most of our...

I finally bought a heavy duty counter top stand mixer. with a scraper blade. I was delaying because a good one is $300. but I have so much cream piling up,(24 quarts at last count and 2 more a day coming in, and it takes so long to churn it that I broke down. Just tried it out thinking to return...

google ...no bake choc. oatmeal cookies. Use the recipe with peanut butter. Simple, fool proof, fudgelike and yummy.

I have the same problem. We are building shelving around one end of the basement; its not the kind of basement you can live in. I plan to vacuum pack the winter blankets/sheet/clothes in those reusable storage bags made for hooking up to a vacuum cleaner and place them in rubbermaids if on the...

What are you feeding them? I don't feed commercial feed. I feed coursley ground peas and wheat 20%+ protein. In winter they need vitamins in the water but in summer they need to be placed out in areas with lots of clovers, thistle ect...they are also intregrated with the Chantecler so they get...

Get some cows. They can destroy everything for you and take the pressure off. My husband is getting sick of me asking " is that cow proof?"

I posted on BYC but didn't get any interest so dropped it. I free range all of my chickens. I have been breeding Cx for 3 years. The tricky part is getting started. Out of 25 chicks, 1-3 will make it to breeding age and lay eggs. I don't have Cx roos because they cannot compete with my...

One dairy cow; 2 if you want milk and cheese year round. This equals 2 calves and only one is needed. 20 hens/1 rooster. A trio of turkeys if you really think you need them but they are a luxury item; cost money to feed and you can survive on the beef just fine. The typical family only really...

The hot soapy water and a razor blade for the tough bits. If the glass is wet it won't scratch the glass. Do this for any glass and mirrors. Spray with window cleaner and scrape while wet with a razor blade. They come in in holders at the hardware store for a few dollars or just use masking tape...

Its been awhile; the sun is shining the days are getting longer and a lot of jobs on my to do list. Here is a little jerry-rigging story for Joel_BC. Thing to remember here is that there weren't any power tools because there wasn't any electricity so anything that evolved after electricity was...