A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen: Real Food Recipes & Homestead Kitchen Skills: Fermenting, Canning, Cheesemaking, Curing & Foraging All Year Round

About this book

Learn the skills that helped our ancestors to thrive in harsh times. When panic buying, empty shelves, and restrictive rations hit in March 2020, it was not a problem for Kate Downham and her family, because she knew these skills, and knew how to feed her family without the supermarket system. With the help of this book, you can learn these skills too. Learn traditional methods of preserving pork without electricity. Make your own cheese, butter, and other dairy essentials. Learn sourdough bread recipes that take only 5 minutes of hands-on time to make. Preserve fruit and vegetables in many ways - from failproof fermenting through to jams, chutneys, pickles, and water bath canning. Learn one skill at a time while also finding recipe inspiration in seasonal local recipes that are designed to be cooked in everyday homestead life. Tested in many different kitchens, these recipes work on wood stoves as well as conventional electric and gas cookers. Many variations and ingredient substitutions are included to help you make the recipes with whatever ingredients are on hand at the time, along with useful indexes to help make use of seasonal abundance. Inside you'll find: Over 130 hearty, family-friendly recipes organised by the rhythms of the homestead year: vibrant summer garden harvests, cozy winter one-pot meals, spring foraging, autumn preserving, and everything in between Homemade kitchen staples from scratch - mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, bbq sauce, breakfast foods, and other pantry essentials without special equipment Nitrate-free charcuterie and meat curing - Make your own bacon, ham, salami, chorizo, and more using traditional no-electricity, nitrate-free methods Homemade dairy - cheese, butter, yoghurt, ice cream, and more Reliable food preservation - tried-and-tested recipes for ferments, jams, pickles, canning, and dehydrating Bake with sourdough and real food ingredients - breads, pancakes, crackers, cakes, cookies, and other baked goods using fresh milled flour, animal fats, and natural sweeteners Off-grid kitchen wisdom - Cooking on wood stoves, fridge-free living, deep food storage, waste reduction, batch cooking, and meal planning strategies that make cooking from scratch easier and more joyful every day Written in Kate's warm, approachable style, this book makes ancestral skills accessible for beginners and experienced cooks alike.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780648466161

Publisher

Markensgrode

Published

August 3, 2021

Pages

222

Weight

23.5 oz

Subject

Cooking