The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How: Field-to-Table Cooking Skills

by Andrea Chesman

Overview

Growing vegetables and raising livestock is only the beginning of a successful homestead — that fresh food goes to waste unless you can properly prepare, cook, and preserve it. Andrea Chesman shows you how to bridge the gap between field and table, covering everything from curing meats and making sausage to canning fruits and vegetables, milling flour, working with sourdough, baking no-knead breads, making braises and stews that can be adapted to different cuts of meat, rendering lard and tallow, pickling, making butter and cheese, making yogurt, blanching vegetables for the freezer, making jams and jellies, drying produce, and much more. You’ll learn all the techniques you need to get the most from homegrown foods, along with dozens of simple and delicious recipes, most of which can be adapted to use whatever you have available.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612122045
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	08/25/2015
Series:	Backyard Homestead Series
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	95,091
Product dimensions:	7.06(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrea Chesman is the author of The Fat Kitchen as well as many other cookbooks that focus on traditional techniques and fresh-from-the-garden cooking. Her previous books include The Pickled Pantry, Serving Up the Harvest,101 One-Dish Dinners, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How. She teaches and does cooking demonstrations and classes across the United States. She lives in Ripton, Vermont.
 

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

PART 1 GETTING THE MOST FROM FRESH FOOD

1. Setting Up the Homestead Kitchen
2. Fresh Vegetables: Harvesting, Handling, Cooking
3. Fresh Fruit:  Harvesting, Handling, Cooking
4. Grains and Beans
5. Homemade Sweeteners:Honey, Maple Syrup, and Apple Cider Syrup
6. Eggs, Birds, and Rabbits
7. Fresh Milk
8. Meat: Goat, Lamb, Pork, and Beef

PART 2  FOOD PRESERVATION

1. Cold Storage
2. Freezing
3. Canning: Boiling-Water-Bath and Pressure Canning
4. Drying
5. Pickling
6. Making Fruit Preserves
7. Culturing Milk and Making Cheese
8. Curing Meats and Making Sausage

PART 3  HOMESTEAD COOKING

1. Breakfast and Egg Dishes
2. Vegetable, Cheese, and Bean Dishes
3. Poultry and Meat Dishes
4. Desserts and Baked Goods

Appendix: Basic Cooking Methods
Resources
Metric Conversion Charts
Index
 

Editorial Reviews

“A stunningly comprehensive guide to making the most out of every last homegrown and hand-raised edible morsel.”
— Marissa McLellan, author of Food in Jars and Preserving by the Pint
 
“Whether you grow, glean, or purchase local foods, they usually come to the kitchen with no instructions and in formidable quantities. But now expert help is at hand with this all-in-one-guide for beginning homesteaders."
— Linda Ziedrich, author of The Joy of Pickling and The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves
 
 “A terrific handbook for anyone who wants to live more self-reliantly, covering everything from growing to preserving and cooking the harvest.”
— Deborah Krasner, author of Good Meat

From the Publisher