This Amish Pumpkin Butter recipe is easy enough to make large batches and can, delicious enough to eat on gluten-free bread sandwiches all fall and winter, and unique enough to hand out as hostess gifts at fall parties! My husband is a sweet potato and winter squash lover in the extreme, and every Keep Reading
Spiced Crockpot Pear Butter Recipe (With Canning Instructions)
Looking for something tasty to go with your gluten-free biscuits? This spiced crock pot pear butter recipe perfectly pears the sweetness of pears with the warmth of fall spices for the perfect spread. I grew up reading and idealizing books about the pioneers. Not the ones where they crossed the Keep Reading
Sugar-free Strawberry Jam Recipe
Yes, you really can make sugar-free strawberry jam right in your own kitchen! And it’s not even hard. Back when I lived “at home”, meaning as a teenager with my parents, we used to grow and can a lot of our own food, and one of the things we used to make was jam and jelly. Especially strawberry jam Keep Reading
How To Make Jerky In The Oven
Do you want to make jerky, but don’t have a dehydrator? No problem! Just follow these tips for how to make jerky in the oven! When I was a kid, we had a giant wood cookstove right, smack in the middle of the small kitchen of our small, open floor plan house. That thing had no problem heating the Keep Reading
Deer Jerky Recipe
This simple, old-fashioned deer jerky recipe is really awesome. You don’t have to have anything fancy – not even a dehydrator! I love jerky. I mean, who doesn’t, right? And it's pretty much the biggest reason I look forward to hunting season every year, but the thing is, it’s kind of expensive, Keep Reading
Home-Canned Apple Pie Filling Recipe
What can be more satisfying than seeing your pantry shelves filling up with food that you’ve canned with your own hands? Not much, I’d submit, but there’s something extra special about canning pie filling. It’s like making convenience food, and you can use gluten-free recipes to do it. Once you’re Keep Reading
How To Can Baked Beans
A big part of living frugally is making your own convenience food, and this recipe for how to can baked beans fits this bill perfectly, especially for those of us who need to use gluten-free recipes, and on those too-busy-to-think-about-dinner days. They give you the ability to have dinner on the Keep Reading
How To Use A pressure Canner
If you want to learn to can your own food, but have no idea how to use a pressure canner, never fear! Pressure canners are actually quite simple and, contrary to what you may have heard, safe. A few weeks ago, in the article canning 101, I gave a list of things you might need to get Keep Reading
Canning 101
I’ve always been hesitant to delve into the topic of how to can, but since canning has always played such a significant roll in how we store our food, I think it’s time to change that. It also happens to fit quite nicely with the whole theme of this website - being a Frugal Farm Wife. But the Keep Reading
DIY Homemade Tallow In The Crockpot
Have you ever rendered your own tallow or lard? With our modern society, we tend to go into a grocery store and buy specific cuts of beef or pork, and never even see a significant ammount of fat - certainly not enough to bother rendering. But if you raise your own meat, or buy from a local farmer, Keep Reading