In my last cooking video I showed how to make your own baking mix. This you can substitute for any recipe calling for Bisquick.
Today I’ll show you my favorite way to make biscuits! I have another recipe, my Grandmothers biscuit recipe. I love it also, but dh thinks these are better.
Making your own premade mixes are healthy and convenient. They also save a lot of money from buying them ready made. I like knowing what is IN my food and how it was made. Making my own mixes helps to make meals quickly, conveniently and healthy!
Baking Mix
8 cups flour
1/4 cup baking powder
1 1/2 cups powdered milk (optional)
1 Tbs salt
1 1/2 cups lard (or shortening, butter)
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Using a pastry blender cut in lard until it’s well mixed.
If you prefer to leave out the powdered milk, you can substitute the water in your recipe for milk, rice milk or other alternative. Use in any biskwick recipe.
Our first crop to get in the gardens is garlic. We planted this last year but couldn’t harvest it. We had so much rain in the fall the bulbs were mushy.
Left them to over winter and they came up nicely this spring. So we needed to transplant them.
Knitting is a wonderful relaxing hobby. We have had such a wonderful response to our other homesteading videos, I’ve decided to start a knitting series.
Our first video is the long tail cast on method. It is my favorite cast on. Very easy to do and knit from, makes a nice looking and stretchy cast on edge.
Canning ground beef is so easy to do and very convenient to keep on hand! I prefer to keep canned meat on hand rather then frozen for a few reasons. It is always ready to use, no waiting for frozen meat to thaw out. Yes, I know I could take it out of the freezer the day before but I always forget. Canned meat keeps longer then frozen, and it never gets freezer burned! Also more then once I’ve had someone unplug my freezer with disastrous results. However a long power outage would have the same results.
A few years ago, I changed the way I canned ground beef. Instead of pan frying it in small batches, then having to drain and rinse the fat off I started boiling it. I can place large amounts of ground beef in my stock pot, cover it with water and let it simmer until it’s cooked. This saves me time, I no longer have to cook in small batches. I can get it ready then go and attend to other jobs. I no longer have grease splatting around my stove. One of the best advantages is a nice large pot of soup stock! After boiling the ground beef, I strain the broth and set it in the fridge to cool over night. The next day skim the fat off the top. You can now season the broth however you like.
Corn is one of our favorite vegetables on the homestead. Although it’s not a high yielding plant for the area it takes up, it’s well worth growing! There is nothing like a nice cob of sweet corn along with a summer BBQ. Home canned corn will be a wonderful addition to the winter menu.
To plant corn, till the ground working in composted manure.
Make rows 1 foot apart.
Drop the seeds of corn into rows 4 inches apart.
Cover 1/2 to 1 inch with soil, pat down and water.
Corn is ready to harvest when the husks are dark green and the silks are brown.
