How to Can Caramelized Onions?
Learn how to can caramelized onions and conveniently preserve that sweet onion flavor for your pantry shelf.
Butchering & Homestead Meat Processing Tips – Step-by-Step Guides
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Homestead Hog Butchering: Leg Quarter
One Year Ago: ~Week 43~ The most recent addition to the Homestead Hog Butchering page has been made. It was the most difficult one to piece together and therefore I saved it for last of the actual butchering of the hog. (All that remains is preparing casings and lard making.) In this video I stepped outside of my…
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Making Beef on the Homestead: Part One
This weekend we slaughtered, skinned, and eviscerated our first steer.He was a 2 1/2 year old Irish Dexter and was born onto our homestead to our first family milk cow, Maybelle. We chose Dexters because they are dual-purpose, hardy, thrifty, and supposedly make a nice grass-fed beef. That way any calves born into our very…
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Aging Weather
Well, aging weather is here. Looks like this will be the first week of the winter where temperatures will be hanging steady around the 40 degree mark. If the forecast holds true, then we’ll be able to age our beef for at least a week, hopefully longer, but in the absence of a cooler how…
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Aging Beef
With my husband itching to get at the beef hanging in the barn, I thought I would do a bit or research in regard to aging beef. We have hear all about how you want to age your beef. Aged beef is in all of the fancy restaurants. Aged beef certainly fetches top dollar. But…
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How to Can Superior Meat Stock or Broth
Learn how to can SUPERIOR meat stock using these tips and SECRET INGREDIENTS! (Plus recipes for chicken, beef, and pork broth).
