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A nutritious and healthy source of fat is vital food and energy for everyone. And it is extremely important for all self-reliant homesteaders who raise and butcher animals to acquire the forgotten skills of rendering lard. Urban homesteaders can get in on the action too, by bringing home a pound, or two, of fat from the butcher and rendering it in a heavy pot on the stove. All you need is a cutting board, a sharp knife, pork fat, a heavy-bottomed pot to cook in and a wood/metal spoon for … [Read more...] about How To Render Lard On The Stove & Ways To Use It

These gems taste as wonderful as they look. For many of us, the first time we heard of a shrub outside of the garden center was on a cocktail menu. For me specifically, it was a drink at a craft distillery that listed ginger shrub as one of its ingredients. The cocktail had the spicy bite of the ginger, but also a sweet, tartness that I couldn’t quite figure out. That was the evening I learned about the existence of drinking vinegars, or shrubs as they are more commonly known. … [Read more...] about How To Make Delicious 3 Ingredient Fruit Shrubs