I love heavy cream for my coffee or whipping up homemade butter or whipped cream. For these uses, you can't really substitute heavy cream but the good news is for baking and cooking uses you can find several great heavy cream substitute options. Like making your own buttermilk there are several things that you can combine to make a heavy cream substitute for cooking and baking. Havey cream ...
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Amazing Mulberry Recipes
Mulberries are a great plant for the beginning forager to work with. These edibles are easy to distinguish from other plants and are fairly common in the midwest and northeastern parts of the US. Check out our mulberry foraging guide to get you started. We have mulberries growing in our backyard and every back yard in the family. We love them for snacking and cooking and I love watching the kids ...
Simple Elderflower Lemonade Recipe
Summer is here and the elderflowers are in full bloom preparing to produce elderberries that will help fight off the flu and colds this winter. if you are lucky enough to find a stash of these flowers you will be happy to know there are so many amazing ways you can use the elderflowers as well as the elderberries. This simple elderflower lemonade recipe is the perfect drink to relax with on a hot ...
How To Make Butter: 3 Simple Ways To Make Homemade Butter
Ever look in the fridge and find yourself without butter? Ever wonder how to make homemade butter? One of my fondest memories in elementary school is when they taught us how to make butter. Of course, I started making it with the kids to wear them out and teach a fun little science lesson they will remember. Cooking in the kitchen with kids is always a great opportunity for learning. Make your own ...
Easy Egg Recipes
Eggs are still on sale and everyone is loving the frugal protein for feeding their families. Hard-boiled eggs make great snacks, you can freeze eggs for use later and you can use them to make all kinds of great meals. Sometimes when you have a whole lot of something great it is easy to forget how you can use it up. These easy egg recipes will help you use up our bounty of eggs with dishes your ...
Benefits Of Mulberry
We love mulberries here. We grow them in our own back yard and go foraging for mulberries around the neighborhood and in our families yards. Each year we give some new mulberry recipes a try like our mulberry syrup and mulberry jam. This year I want to make a mulberry cheesecake.... doesn't that sound amazing? I have been teaching the kids about the benefits of several plants we use in our cooking ...