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GOOD THINGS TO EAT SERIES GUIDE TO COOKING FROM SCRATCH RECIPES, AND TIPS, TO HELP YOU CREATE DELICIOUS, HOMEMADE MEALS 95 INSIDE • Create a Treasured Heirloom Cookbook • Churn Homemade Butter for the Best Flavor • Sweet or Savory, Bake Pies for Every Occasion • Make Pickles, Sauerkraut, Cheeses or Candies • Bake Bread, Preserve Jams, Freeze Garden Produce Spring 2017

8 Creating an Heirloom Cookbook

Recipes and photographs from family and friends add the personal touch to a sure-to-be-treasured book.

12 Take Stock

Eat better, waste less food and save money with an organized pantry.

14 Weekly Meal Plan: 4 Recipes for Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

Eat tender, slow-cooked pulled pork throughout the week as tacos, stir-fry, sandwiches, and potstickers.

18 Freezing Fruits and Vegetables From Your Garden

Round out your food preservation regimen! Tap these straightforward freezing tips to turn your garden harvests into sensational, off-season meals.

22 Delicious, Homemade Whole-Grain Flours

Invite new flavors, textures and nutrients into your baking adventures by picking out a home mill and grinding a range of grains into super-fresh flours.

28 Baking Botanical Breads

Add herbs to homemade bread for tasty, unusual recipes.

34 Make Your Own Pastas: Traditional, Whole-Grain or Gluten-Free

Fresh pastas are so easy to make that you can enjoy homemade noodles any time.

38 Meaner’n a Snake Pickles & Cobbler in a Jar

Texas treats are blissful to eat and profitable to sell.

42 Easy One-Pot Meals

Want to serve up convenient, well-balanced dishes without making a mess of your kitchen? Now you’re cooking’!

46 Homemade Butter: The Best You’ll Ever Have “It is sweet as early grass butter in April.”

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick , 1851

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51 Pass the Sauce

Craft your own condiments from scratch.

55 How to Make Pickles

These three basic methods put perfect pickling within the grasp of every preserver. Just pick a pickle recipe and get started!

59 Any Way You Slice It

Homemade pies are the ultimate dessert.

62 Savory Pies

Give in to your cravings for delicious and hearty meat-filled pies.

66 Pizza Perfection

Forget takeout and turn your kitchen into a pizzeria.

70 Craft These Fresh Easy Cheeses

Learn to create Fromage Blanc, Mascarpone and Paneer cheeses in your own kitchen.

72 Got Cabbage? Make Sauerkraut!

This fascinating fermented food is delicious, easy to make and good for you.

74 Old-Fashioned Cooking Guide

Use these six principles to take your family’s weekly meals back to a simpler time.

76 100% Natural Lard

Revisit the virtues of your grandmother’s secret ingredient and get cooking.

82 Long Live Cast Iron

Versatile, durable and easy to use, the original nonstick cookware is still a kitchen essential.

90 Easy, High-Quality, Low-Cost Homemade Yogurt

After you know how to make yogurt at home, you’ll wonder why you ever wasted money on the store-bought stuff.

93 Candies: A Holiday Hit

Homemade treats add a tasty, decorative flair to the season’s meals and parties.

96 Recipe Index

It’s simple to find all the recipes in this issue.

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RECIPE INDEX

Æbleskiver 86 Barbecue Sauce 52 Béchamel Sauce 68 ‘Big Buck’ Stromboli 62 Blue Cornmeal, Chicken and Chile Pizza 69 Butterscotch Peach Pie 60 Campfire Peach Cobbler 87 Candy Canes 94 Caramelized Onion Quiche ........................ 65 Cast-Iron Pot Pie With Rabbit 88 Cheddar Chive Biscuits 32 Cheeses, Main Steps 70 Cheesy Corn Quiche 86 Cherry Amber Pie ..................................... 61 Cherry Mash Bars 93 Cherry Pie 79 Chewy Semolina Pizza Crust 66 Chicken and Dumplings 43 Chicken Pot Pie 64 Chili With Cornbread 44 Chocolate Cashew Clusters 94 Chowchow 39 Chow Mein Noodle Wreaths 94 Cinnamon Pecans 95 Cinnamon Rolls 78 Classic Italian Pesto 68 Classic Sausage, Olives and Onion Pizza 69 Crispy Pizza Crust 67 Crunchy Cornmeal Pizza Crust 67 Dijon Mustard 51 Dijon With Mustard Seeds ......................... 51 Dill Relish 54 Dutch Oven Biscuits 86 Fermented Kosher Dill Pickles 56 Fiesta Beef Potpie 79 Fire-Roasted Peppers ................................ 21 Fish Pie 63 Flavorful Homemade Butter 48 Focaccia Crust 67 Fresh and Easy Tomato Sauce 68 Fresh Egg-Noodle Dough 36 Fresh Tomato Ketchup 53 Fromage Blanc 71 Garden-Fresh Apple Pie With Cider-Pecan Crust 60 Garlic Chive Butter 31 Gluten-Free Noodle Dough 37 Grandma’s Homemade Biscuits 80 Granny’s Bread and Butter Pickles 10 Great-Grandma’s Fruit Cake 10 Greek Yogurt Sauce 54 Half-Dried Tomatoes 21 Homemade Sweet Cream Butter ................ 75 Homemade Tzatziki Sauce 92 Homemade Yogurt 91 Honey Dijon Mustard 51 Hot Pepper Jelly 40 Lard Pie Crust 80 Lemon-Rosemary Honey Butter 33 Mascarpone 71 Mayonnaise 52 Miss Bonnie’s Dandelion Green Salad ........ 10 Mounds Bars 95 Mrs. Eisenhower’s Favorite Fudge 95 Mustard Butter 32 Never-Fail Divinity Candy 95 Old-Fashioned Peanut Brittle 94 Paneer 71 Pear, Prosciutto and Goat Cheese Pizza 69 Perfect Pastry 59 Pork Potstickers With Peanut Sauce ........... 16 Pulled Pork Tacos 15 Raisin Honey Pie 61 Raisin, Rosemary and Walnut Bread 32 Ranch Beans 87 Rendering Lard – Dry Rendering 77 Rendering Lard – Water Method 78 Roasted Winter Vegetables and Sausages 43 Sauerkraut 73 Sauersprouts ............................................ 73 Scandinavian Meat Pies 63 Shepherd’s Pie 45 Shepherd’s Pie 64 Short Ribs With Root Vegetables 44 Simple Thai Refrigerator Pickles 58 Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches 15 Slow Cooker Pulled Pork 14 Spicy Eggs With Kale 42 Spicy Olive Oil ......................................... 68 Split Pea Soup With Ham 85 Tamari Brown Rice With Crispy Pork and Asian Slaw 15 Tarragon Dijon Mustard 51 T-Bonz Breakfast Hash 84 Tzatziki Sauce 54 Uncle Ray’s ‘The Only Marinade You Will Ever Need’ 10 Very Berry Pie 61 Vinegar-Preserved Old-Fashioned Lime Pickles 57 Whole Wheat Bread With Oregano 31 Whole-Wheat Noodle Dough 37

Very Berry Pie, Page 61

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Short Ribs With Root Vegetables, Page 44

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