Self sufficient/prepper/homesteadingAnd cheap bastard threadHow's your garden going?What's good in bulk now?Cheap bastard hints?Preservation tips?Planting native food plants in your local park for hard times?General discussion too.
>>4775175This time of year is great for making white clover,redbud,and dandylion simple syrup. Just cram a bunch of flowers in a old kombucha bottle ( in case it starts to ferment) fill the empty space with sugar and let the mosture get sucked out after a thorough shake. If it ferment use it in sparkling water, but usually the heavy sugar ratio keeps it from doing so. I put a bit of the sugar and flower in a metal tea diffuser and a bit of lemon. Delightful. And very cheap.
>>4775176This year I'm trying to cure some young pine pollen sacks in honey for the supposed allergy relief and citrus flavor.The white bottle here is clover buds sitting in sugar after 9 hours. I'll add more today and the mosture will be sucked out to eventually make a syrup.for some reason this way tastes better than making the sugar syrup ahead then adding it to the flowers.
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I'm making 66 lumpia today with some discounted round roast I ground. Freezing a bunch for future meals. Since I got my grinder I've only been buying discount meat. Made a bunch of brauts and meatballs and meatloaf for the freezer. It's nice to eat meat whenever I feel again. This year I'm curing meats too.
