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Make your own maple sugar with one single ingredient, heat, and a bit of elbow grease. Learn how to transform pure maple syrup into unrefined maple sugar.

How to Make Maple Sugar

Recipes· The Kitchen

Make your own maple sugar with one single ingredient, heat, and a bit of elbow grease. Learn how to transform pure maple syrup into unrefined maple sugar. It is easy to make maple sugar by simply boiling pure maple syrup until it evaporates into a granulated sugar form. Maple sugar has a strong maple fragrance but a mild maple flavor….
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Did you know you could make apple scrap vinegar simply by combining apple peelings and cores with water and sugar, and let it ferment until it turns into vinegar?

Homemade Apple Scrap Vinegar

Fermenting· Recipes· The Kitchen

Did you know you could make apple scrap vinegar simply by combining apple peelings and cores with water and sugar, and let it ferment until it turns into vinegar? Whether you are processing a bushel of freshly picked apples for applesauce, baked cinnamon apple chip, or apple pie, be sure to save those scraps! The mild apple flavored vinegar is…
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Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose their old feathers and grow in new ones. Here are tips to help you understand what is happening and how to care for molting chickens.

Caring for Molting Chickens

Farm Birds· The Barnyard

Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose their old feathers and grow in new ones. Here are tips to help you understand what is happening and how to care for molting chickens. Are your chickens molting? Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose old feathers and grow in new ones. Growing feathers…
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Homemade Black Walnut Extract for Baking

Baking· The Kitchen

This homemade black walnut extract will elevate your baking with deep walnut flavor. See how to make this old-fashioned flavoring from foraged black walnuts. There was a time when a bottle of black walnut flavored extract was a common ingredient in the spice cabinet. It has fallen out of favor over the years and has been discontinued by the major…
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Do you have black walnut trees nearby? See how to take advantage of this foraged food by learning when to harvest and how to hull, cure, and store black walnuts.

How to Harvest and Preserve Black Walnuts

Foraging· Preserving· The Woods

Do you have black walnut trees nearby? See how to take advantage of this foraged food by learning when to harvest and how to hull, cure, and store black walnuts. In our area, black walnuts begin to mature and fall from the branches in late September into October. We try to gather as many as we can daily before the…
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These thin and crispy cinnamon apple chips are a great snack when you are craving something sweet and crunchy.

Baked Cinnamon Apple Chips

Baking· Preserving· Recipes· The Kitchen

These thin and crispy cinnamon apple chips are a great snack when you are craving something sweet and crunchy. Low heat from the oven removes the moisture, caramelizes the natural sugars, and crisps up these apple chips. A light dusting of cinnamon gives them a warm, sweet flavor perfect for snacking. How to Make Baked Cinnamon Apple Chips Step 1:…
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