Butterscotch Confetti squares have been a delicious dessert item that I have grown up with. When I was a kid, it was something that was made for special occasions like holidays, wedding or baby showers and get togethers. Now, we enjoy them nut free, whenever we want! And they are super easy to make. We…
Homemade Hot Cocoa
Nothing beats homemade hot cocoa in the winter to warm the soul! It is nice to enjoy a mug of yummy hot chocolate after being outside in the snow and cold, crisp winds, especially after shoveling! And making homemade hot cocoa is quite simple, and only takes 4 ingredients! Drinking hot chocolate dates back a…
Rustic Orange Slice Garland
We have been doing an old fashioned Christmas which has been wonderful! We decided to do all homemade decorations on the tree, so I decided to make a rustic orange slice garland for the tree. I also used apple and decided to sprinkle the fruit with cinnamon. It smells divine. As the fruit was drying…
Making Kapusta – Old Fashioned Sauerkraut
I have always wanted to learn how to make homemade sauerkraut. Learning about ways the settlers preserved vegetables has always been of interest to me. I find it fascinating, especially in our modern times how pioneers cooked and preserved food. I thought it important for my family to learn these old fashioned ways of preserving,…
Harvesting Corn Seed
We started growing corn this spring indoors and planted it in my mom’s garden where there was more room for it to grow. It did exceptionally well where it gets both sun and shade and plenty of water. This summer, the corn grew so well and the cobs had properly formed kernels that when cooked,…
Old Fashioned Candy Apples
Every Halloween, we make something delectable with apples, often caramel apples, and it has become a yearly tradition. But this year, we thought we would switch it up! We made the most delicious, good old fashioned candy apples, that have a nice, crunchy candy coating, but not overly sticky, so no breaking or ripping out…
How to Quickly Make a Homemade Kerchief
I am amazed how pioneers and even until the 1940s and ’50s how most sewed their own clothes. I find it fascinating – girls learned from their mothers who learned from their mothers, and was a skill passed on through the years until buying clothes became more popular than sewing them. I would have loved…
Homemade Crab Apple Juice
It is super simple to make homemade crab apple juice without a juice press. I received this recipe 20 years ago, and it has been a juice that we make every year when the crab apples are ready to pick. It’s quick and easy, with just a few steps, to create a yummy homemade juice!…
