I have always wanted to learn how to make homemade sauerkraut. Learning about ways the settlers preserved vegetables has always been of interest to me. I find it fascinating, especially in our modern times how pioneers cooked and preserved food. I thought it important for my family to learn these old fashioned ways of preserving,…
Harvesting Corn Seed
We started growing corn this spring indoors and planted it in my mom’s garden where there was more room for it to grow. It did exceptionally well where it gets both sun and shade and plenty of water. This summer, the corn grew so well and the cobs had properly formed kernels that when cooked,…
Old Fashioned Candy Apples
Every Halloween, we make something delectable with apples, often caramel apples, and it has become a yearly tradition. But this year, we thought we would switch it up! We made the most delicious, good old fashioned candy apples, that have a nice, crunchy candy coating, but not overly sticky, so no breaking or ripping out…
How to Quickly Make a Homemade Kerchief
I am amazed how pioneers and even until the 1940s and ’50s how most sewed their own clothes. I find it fascinating – girls learned from their mothers who learned from their mothers, and was a skill passed on through the years until buying clothes became more popular than sewing them. I would have loved…
Homemade Crab Apple Juice
It is super simple to make homemade crab apple juice without a juice press. I received this recipe 20 years ago, and it has been a juice that we make every year when the crab apples are ready to pick. It’s quick and easy, with just a few steps, to create a yummy homemade juice!…
Nutty Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These nutty double chocolate chip cookies is a delicious spin on chocolate chip cookies. These cookies are soft and tender thanks to the nut/seed butter! You can easily make these with peanut butter or nut free using a seed butter of choice. Because my girls have various nut allergies, I use Wow Butter which is…
5-Minute Fudge Boil Cookies
These 5 minute no-bake fudge cookies are also known as haystacks, fudgies, poor man cookies, chocolate fiddle diddles, chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies, preacher cookies, boil cookies or oatmeal boil cookies. These no-bake cookies were made popular in the 1930’s and there’s an array of names for these yummy morsels! I have been making these candy-like…
Quick to Sew Pot Holders
It is easy to make your own quick to sew pot holders!! We love different sewing projects that are easy, especially since we are sewing-beginners! These pot holders took me less than an hour to make, and probably took me more time to decide what fabric I wanted to use than to sew the pot…
