How to Make Ricotta Cheese at Home

Do you know how to make ricotta cheese?  It’s easy and fun. How to Make Ricotta Cheese Soft, fresh cheese is easy to make at home.  As long as you have whole milk around, there’s no reason to rush out to the store. Do you remember the Miss Muffet rhyme?...

Canning Pecans

One of the best things about canning pecans is that laboring over a hot stove during the cooler months is actually pleasant. Here’s what came back from the pecan-crackers: Two of those are ours. Yep. Full of cracked pecans. Thank you ancestors for your insight...

Sweet Potato Biscuits

These combine two of my favorite things: biscuits and sweet potatoes. Very moist and flavorful and so easy to make, especially if you already have one lonely leftover sweet potato laying around. I recommend doubling this recipe for a family.Sweet Potato Biscuitsmakes...

Scrubby Rows Dishcloth

This is the unbordered, unadorned, workhorse of the kitchen. And no cemented blob of counter-adhered oatmeal shall prevail against it!!Scrubby Rows Dish ClothWorsted Sugar and Cream, H needleCh 37Row 1 (RS): Dc in 4th ch from hook and in each ch acrossFront Post...

Stubborn Doorstop

I may be the only person who has had a problem with this, but I needed a hard-to-remove doorstop to keep little hands from getting smooshed. Regular doorstops just got absconded with, carried around and lost. The worst door of all was the swinging door between the...