Apple Pocket Pies
Apple Pocket Pies Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Children always want to help in the kitchen. (Not so much with the cleaning up that occurs there, but with the preceding phase of mess-making.) This is particularly true when it comes to baking desserts. This can be a source of frustration for […]
Slow-Cooker Apple Butter
Slow-Cooker Apple Butter Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Purists will tell you that the only way to make apple butter properly is over an open fire, in an enormous copper pot, on a cold autumn day, stirring continuously with a wooden paddle from sunrise until well after sunset — all of […]
Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Pumpkin Coffee Cake Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe As fall nights grow longer and cooler, pumpkins grow more prevalent within them. Each year, these autumnal gourds dutifully take up their schedule of evening appearances in pies and on porches. But pumpkins’ festive graces ought not to be kept solely in the […]
Beet Kvass
Beet Kvass Mrs. April Jaure Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe When it comes to getting nutrients out of vegetables, I’m convinced that nothing quite beets . . . er, beats fermentation. Thus, I share with you today a wonderful fermented beverage called beet kvass. Beet kvass is thought to have originated […]
Season Straddling Vegetable Soup
Season-Straddling Vegetable Soup Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Conducive though they are to so very many culinary pleasures, the seasons of the year seem to conspire against the very concept of vegetable soup. During summer, when vegetables in the garden are plentiful, everyone is far too hot to be thinking much […]
Old Fashioned Yet Currant
Old Fashioned Yet Currant A New Take on a Timeless Cocktail Mrs. April Jaure Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Tall silver maple trees used to stand in front of my house near the street. In the first summer that we lived here, my father-in-law looked up to the first fork of […]
Summertime Strawberry Pie
Summertime Strawberry Pie Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Memorial Day, the last day of school, the solstice — these all have made their claims. But the true first day of summer is, without qualification, whichever day welcomes the year’s first strawberry pie. What other moment could so capture and commence the […]
On the Brewing of Tea
On the Brewing of Tea Next to water, tea is the most common drink in the world. Over six billion cups of this earthy stuff are consumed each day. (Hearth & Field staff are personally responsible for a non-trivial number of them.) Steaming, iced, honeyed, unsweetened, black, green, white, or otherwise, tea is king, and […]
Step-by-Step Sourdough Bread
Step-by-Step Sourdough Bread Instructions for both the Adventurous & the Efficient Mrs. April Jaure Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe My husband is a tinkerer. When he wants to learn a new skill, he’s likely to just dive in, experiment and fail, and try again. With some research and trial and error […]
Cultured Milk: The Science & Magic of Yogurt Making
Cultured Milk The Science & Magic of Yogurt Making Mrs. Gina Loehr Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe I don’t know how words become what they are, but I do know that whoever decided to call cultures “cultures” was on to something. Participating in the making, the creation of our own food […]