Old Fashion Chicken and Dumplings in a Crockpot
Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings With the weather turning colder, it is time to break out some of my all-time favorite old fashion recipes! I love finding and creating recipes that take only those ingredients that would have been available 100 years...
How to make pickles without canning
Dilly Sweet Refrigerator Pickles I have to admit I have never had much luck with making a good dill pickle that stays crispy like my Grandmother did. But what I can make is a great no-fuss, no-canning pickle that I just had to share! I got a question last...
Canning Spaghetti Sauce – Step-by-Step Instructions
My Great Grandmothers canned spaghetti sauce recipe. We had a wonderful blessing this weekend; we were given four bushels of tomatoes! After being disappointed in our tomato harvest these unexpected tomatoes were welcomed with opened arms. You’ll not get one...
How to Make Ice Tea – Honey Lemon
My family’s favorite ice tea. In South Carolina the temperature reached 101 yesterday. When it gets that hot, there is not much you want to do other then relax with a glass of iced tea. In the South, sweet tea is a staple in any refrigerator, and you...
Jello Peach Pie – Not your Grandma’s Peach Pie
Cool Summer Jello Peach Pie. In the south, nothing speaks summer more than peach juice dripping down your arm. And nothing soothes a hot South Carolina day than a slice of this cool summertime jello peach pie. Just like the title says…this is not...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.