Step-by-Step Techniques

Chapter 1: Setting Up the Homestead Kitchen

Step-by-Step: How to Package Food with a Vacuum Sealer

Step-by-Step: How to Sharpen a Knife

Step-by-Step: How to Hone a Knife

Chapter 2: Fresh Vegetables: Harvesting,Handling,Cooking

Chapter 3: Fresh Fruit: Harvesting, Handling, Cooking

Chapter 4: Grains and Beans

Step-by-Step: How to Make the Basic No-Knead Bread

Chapter 5: Homemade Sweeteners: Honey, Maple Syrup, and Apple Cider Syrup

Step-by-Step: How to Extract Honey

Step-by-Step: How to Make Maple Syrup

Step-by-Step: How to Make Apple Cider Syrup

Chapter 6: Eggs, Birds, and Rabbits

Step-by-Step: How to Handle Freshly Slaughtered Birds

Step-by-Step: How to Spatchcock a Bird

Step-by-Step: How to Handle the Edible Innards

Step-by-Step: How to Clean Chicken Feet

Step-by-Step: How to Render Poultry Fat

Step-by-Step: How to Cut a Bird into Parts

Step-by-Step: How to Roast a Chicken or Guinea Fowl

Step-by-Step: How to Carve a Spatchcocked Roasted Turkey

Step-by-Step: How to Make Gravy

Step-by-Step: How to Make Poultry Stock

Step-by-Step: How to Roast a Duck or Goose

Step-by-Step: How to Cut Up a Rabbit

Chapter 7: Fresh Milk

Step-by-Step: How to Pasteurize Raw Milk

Chapter 8: Meat: Goat, Lamb, Pork, and Beef

Step-by-Step: How to Render Lard and Tallow

Step-by-Step: How to Make a Pan Sauce

Chapter 9: Cold Storage

Step-by-Step: How to Prepare Root Vegetables for Cold Storage

Chapter 10: Freezing

Step-by-Step: How to Blanch and Freeze Vegetables

Step-by-Step: How to Tray-Freeze without Blanching

Step-by-Step: How to Tray-Freeze Fruit

Step-by-Step: How to Freeze Fruit in a Sugar Pack

Step-by-Step: How to Freeze Fruit in a Sugar Syrup

Step-by-Step: How to Use Poultry Shrink Bags

Chapter 11: Canning: Boiling-Water-Bath and Pressure Canning

Step-by-Step: How to Can Using a Boiling-Water Bath

Step-by-Step: How to Pressure-Can

Chapter 12: Drying

Step-by-Step: How to Dry Most Vegetables

Step-by-Step: How to Dry Fruits

Step-by-Step: How to Make Fruit Leather

Step-by-Step: How to Make Jerky

Chapter 13: Pickling

Step-by-Step: How to Make Vinegar Pickles

Step-by-Step: How to Make Fermented Krauts and Kimchis

Step-by-Step: How to Ferment Cucumbers, Green Tomatoes, and Snap Beans

Chapter 14: Making Fruit Preserves

Step-by-Step: How to Make Jams, Preserves, and Conserves without Added Pectin

Step-by-Step: How to Make Jelly

Step-by-Step: How to Make Fruit Butters

Chapter 15: Culturing Milk and Making Cheese

Step-by-Step: How to Make Butter (and Crème Fraîche)

Step-by-Step: How to Make Yogurt

Step-by-Step: How to Make Soft Fresh Cheese

Step-by-Step: How to Make Mozzarella

Chapter 16: Curing Meats and Making Sausage

Step-by-Step: How to Make Fresh Sausage