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How to Make Farmhouse Cheese
Cheesemaking was one of the kitchen skills that intimidated me for many years. Compared to baking bread, preserving food and making my own maple syrup, making my own cheese felt complicated. It wasn’t until I started getting milk from my goats and I had an adundance of milk that I first decided to try my…
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How to Keep Chicks Warm
In nature, baby chicks are raised by their mothers and kept warm by the mother hens body heat. When you raise chicks away from their mom, it’s very important that the chicks are kept warm right from the start. In this article I share our experience keeping baby chicks warm and raising them for the…
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Chicken Heat Plates: Choosing the Best Heater for Baby Chicks
Keeping your chicks warm for the first few weeks of their life is one of the essential ways to keep your chicks happy and healthy. Chicks need an environment with temperatures between 95 and 100 for the first week of their life and a decrease of 5 degrees each week until they are feathered out.…
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How to Make Homemade 30 minute Mozzarella Cheese
For years I was intimiated by cheesemaking and focused on making the easier recipes like making butter or yogurt. When I finally decided to try making my own cheese, mozzarella was one of the first recipes I tried. As one of the easiest types of cheese to make, it’s slightly easier that other cheese, takes…
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How to Make Ricotta Cheese from Whey or Milk
Ricotta cheese is one of the simplest and easiest cheeses to make at home. If you are just starting in the world of cheese making and culturing dairy, I recommend ricotta as one of your first recipes. In this article, we’ll share exactly how to make ricotta cheese from whey or milk. In addition to…
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How to Make Your Own Baking Extracts
Most people keep a few baking extracts in their kitchen like vanilla and almond, but did you know that you can make many different cooking and baking flavors right in your kitchen with just a few minutes of actual work time and some patience. I’ve been making my own extracts for years now and will…
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How to Make Cinnamon Extract
Experimenting with homemade extracts fun and easy, and making your own extracts is an easy and less expensive way to bring a huge range of flavors to your baking. After learning to make my own vanilla extract, I started branching out to other extracts including cinnamon. This is the perfect addition to cinnamon rolls and…
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How to Make Homemade Maple Extract
One of my favorite ways to use our maple syrup is to make maple extract. This is an easy way to take the delicious flavor of maple and make it into an easy flavoring to add to baked goods and glazes. It is possible to substitute maple syrup for maple extract, but for baking purposes,…
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How to Make Lemon Peel Extract
Did someone say lemon cake? Nothing says summer like the flavor of lemon and one of the easiest ways to bring the flaor of lemon into your baked goods is through making your own lemon peel extract. This extract is easy to make and is a great way to use up some of the lemon…
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How to Make Homemade Mint Extract
Learning to make your own extracts is one of the easiest things you can do in the kitchen. Not only can it save you money, but making homemade mint extract or other extracts gives you more control over the flavor and ingredients. We have a bit of a mint invasion at our home that we…
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