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Techniques & Tutorials

Category: Techniques & Tutorials

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How to Make Homemade Powdered Sugar (from coconut sugar, refined sugar-free)

How To Make An Alcohol-Free Herbal Extract {Herbal Glycerite}| Want to use herbal extracts... but not if they're made with alcohol? Here's how to make a faster, better-tasting, non-alcoholic glycerite instead! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Make An Alcohol-Free Herbal Extract {Herbal Glycerite}

How To Dehydrate Zucchini & Summer Squash | For today's seasonal recipe round-up, I'd like to show you how to dehydrate zucchini and summer squash! Preserving an abundant harvest frugal idea. The two best ways I've found to dehydrate zucchini are: shredded and thinly sliced. The thinly sliced become zucchini chips and they're really good! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Dehydrate Zucchini & Summer Squash

5 Ways to Use Basil

5 Ways to Use Basil

The Ultimate Cheese Press Is Updated! (New Video) | Just a quick note this Saturday morning to share news of my favorite cheese press, the Ultimate Cheese Press from Homesteader Supply. It's design is improved, it's now being made from hardwood maple, and it's being seasoned with organic coconut oil! The bit about seasoning is the best part. Jerri from Homesteader Supply heard my request to give us a press that's got an oil we love to use -- and she listened. | GNOWFGLINS.com

The Ultimate Cheese Press is Updated (New Video)!

How To Season Cast Iron | f you look at the science behind the seasoning of cast iron, you'll find that using cold-pressed, unrefined, organic flaxseed oil, with its low smoke point, is the best for achieving a hard, slick, lasting finish on cast iron. So I followed this seasoning recommendation on my always-sticking cast iron pans, and I’m thrilled with the results! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Season Cast Iron

FREE Video: How to Dehydrate Plums/Prunes

FREE Video: How to Dehydrate Plums/Prunes

Cooking Outdoors {Plus a Rocket Stove Dinner!}

Cooking Outdoors {Plus a Rocket Stove Dinner!}

Transitioning to Gluten-Free Baking: 10 Tips and Tricks for Success | As I navigated the world of gluten-free flours, starches, gums, and endless lists of substitutes, I learned a few things that made my baked goods both better and healthier. Here are my top 10 tips to help you transition successfully and healthfully. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Transitioning to Gluten-Free Baking: 10 Tips and Tricks for Success

At a time when I spent most of my free time baking, I was told I had to give up eggs. But to bake without eggs? Was that even possible? I'm here to tell you that it’s more than possible -- and easier than you might think. Although there are several egg-replacing products available, it’s just as easy to create your own substitutes from ingredients you probably already have on hand. Here are 6 of my favorites, and how to use them.

Baking Without Eggs: 6 Substitutions & How to Use Them

woman's hand holding a large white ceramic bowl of golden-colored, creamy soup topped with chicken and fresh herbs

MORE Nourishing Soups & Stews… For Special Diets!

Sourdough Pizza in an Outdoor Pizza Oven (Video) | I'm thrilled to introduce you to my parents, Ibrahim and Martha. Not only do they live in beautiful Montana, they've got this absolutely amazing outdoor pizza oven. I begged just a little bit, and they said yes to filming one of their pizza baking days. Be sure to watch ALL the way to the end... for a laugh! Plus photos from the videos and more info on creating a pizza oven. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Sourdough Pizza in an Outdoor Pizza Oven (Video)

Homemade Kamut Pasta (soaked for easy digestion!) | Kamut is a great ancient grain to use for pasta because of its hearty, nutty flavor. By soaking, phytic acid is reduced, making digestion easier. We all enjoyed these easy noodles in homemade chicken soup and under beef stew. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Kamut Pasta (soaked for easy digestion!)

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How To Make Healthy Mild-Tasting Mayonnaise #AskWardee 128

The Big Flat Real Food Reuben Sandwich | Who knew that making a big honkin' loaf-sized sandwich and flattening it under cement blocks, rocks, or gym weights could be so fun (or so delicious)? I'd seen other Big Flat Sandwiches around the internet, but when Wardee first presented the idea of making a real food Big Flat Sandwich, I immediately knew I needed to try my all-time favorite sandwich -- the Reuben. | GNOWFGLINS.com

The Big Flat Reuben: A Real Food Big Flat Sandwich

In all my years of cooking outside, I've learned a thing or two. Here are my 8 best tips for cooking over an open fire. Whether you're just getting started or you're a seasoned off-grid cook, I can't wait to hear your best tips. Be sure to share in the comments! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

8 Tips for Cooking Over an Open Fire

How To Make Cinnamon-Infused Honey {2 Ways} | Did you ever eat red hots as a kid? I loved the spicy cinnamon flavor. I have found a simple treat that tastes just the same but is about 1,000 times better for you. Learn to make cinnamon-infused honey and use it in cooking, natural medicine, or straight off the spoon! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Make Cinnamon-Infused Honey {2 Ways}

The tradition of making tea concentrates is centuries old. This time of year, cold weather provides an excellent excuse to cozy in and give your body something hot, soothing, and healthy: a well-loved tea. Let's explore the many reasons why you'd want to make a tea concentrate, and then I'll teach you how to do it!

How {and Why} to Make a Tea Concentrate