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While I think jerky and smoking is the tastiest way to preserve meat, this is another method someone told me about. Potted meat or meat potting began as a way to preserve meat before the age of refrigeration. Meat potting is preserving meat in its own grease in a large crock pot. Meat Potting: An…
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It’s two years after an EMP attack and you have safely tucked away in your retreat somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Your storage foods have mostly been used and your high-tech electronics is useless. The really bad stuff is mostly past. Now it’s trying to stay fed and alive and pray that civilization as…
Before refrigeration people relied on salt and smoke to preserve their meat. Most people lived on family farms and the “smokehouse” was as familiar as the outhouse. Refrigeration changed the way we did a lot of things, but one thing it did not change was our taste for the flavor of cured meat. First and…
The recent articles where I recommended storing on honeybee, have prompted several readers to send comments and questions about storing and using honey, which are summarized below. For some of my answers, I relied heavily on the 3 Bees Honey (of Canada) FAQ page, the Golden Blossom Honey FAQ, a Mayo Clinic web page on…
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Loyal readers of this blog are likely well versed in the importance of food preservation and storage. Many of you have been practicing preparedness for some time and perhaps you are equally skilled in the art of water bath and pressure canning, dehydrating and meat curing. If you’re adventurous, you may even have experience making cheese….
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In the luxurious reality of today, living off-the grid might sound like a true scene of apocalypse, but the beauty of its self-sustenance makes one connect more with nature and natural living or perhaps just, living. Society, its inventions and discoveries have proved to handicap us more into dependency rather than enlightening us to use…
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Life during the 1800s in America was already difficult for many people. Of course there were rich factory owners in the North and plantation owners in the South, but the average farmer and his family worked extremely hard just to survive. When the Civil War started, living conditions became even more difficult for the average…
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Long before we had pots and pans, men and women knelt over fires and used what nature provided to put food on their table (or on the large rock serving as their table that evening). Today, we have knives, pots, spoons, and even large appliances like food processors. But that doesn’t mean you won’t ever…
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Mead makes for one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in history and, using a basic recipe that consists of just honey, water and yeast, it can also be considered as one of the simplest. That said, for the many that may have tried to make mead and suffered some form of misstep, this drink can…
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