Sourdough bread, smoked meat, preserves for a year ahead. How the Amish feed a family without a supermarket.
Flour + water = starter. The Amish bake with the same starter for decades.
Fruits, jams, pickles — a method that's worked for 200 years.
Cabbage, cucumbers, beets — salt + time = probiotics all winter.
Cold and hot smoking: meat keeps for months.
A jar of cream + 20 minutes of shaking = real butter.
Water glass, oil, lime water — eggs fresh for six months.
Apples + sugar + 8 hours on fire = a spread that keeps for a year.
Milk + culture + rennet = cheese. The Amish make it every week.
Tap a maple, collect sap, boil down. 40 liters of sap = 1 liter of syrup.
Sun + air = dried fruit, sun-dried tomatoes, herbs for a year.
Meat, vegetables, soups — what water bath can't handle.
Slice thin, marinate, dry.
With apples, caraway, cranberry, horseradish.
Carrots, beets in sand — fresh until spring.
From fat — pure lard for cooking and soap.