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Zucchini Relish Recipe?
I tried this last year and it came out great. Hope you like it. Zuchinni Relish from Kathy 5 C. finely chopped zuchinni 1 1/2 C. finely chopped onions 3/4 C. finely chopped green sweet peppers 3/4 C. finely chopped red sweet peppers 1/4 C. pickling salt Cold...

 

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Zucchini Relish Recipe?
Kathy I also found this recipe that sounds so easy. Squash Relish Ingredients: 8 c diced squash 3 c diced sweet peppers 2 c diced onions 1 Tbsp salt 3 c sugar 1 Tbsp white mustard seed 1 Tbsp celery seed 1/2 tsp dry mustard 2 1/2 c vinegar Directions: Dice...

 

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Mom's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Thanks so much for sharing your Moms chocolate chip cookie recipe. I also loved the the picture you shared of your Mom. It was so precious. Cant wait to try that cookie recipe.

 

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Homemade Sausage
I would also like to know how you can it. I have a recipe for canned meatloaf would it be the same pressure canning length of time? Coldpacking them at 90 minutes @ 10 lbs of pressure? Thanks for the sausage recipe

 

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Pie in a Jar?
I am not sure how to do a whole pie but I make pie-filling in a jar. I just canned blueberry pie filling in a jar. The website for blueberry, apple, strawberry, cherry and peach is http://pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm. Scroll down to pie fillings. Hope...

 

Coexisting with Raccoons

Coexisting with Raccoons
Thank you for your wonderful advice. We live in the country and have given the coons a barn to themselves. I have yet to see them damage anything of ours yet except the sweet corn. They love sweet corn. I just try to beat them to it. One year we put up a low...

 

Canning Peaches?
I have become a real interested follower of Youtube. I like it because it shows you step by step how to do things. Here is the site for canning peaches if your interested http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=canning+peaches&aq=0

 

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Preserving Onions?
I saw this tip about a year ago. Put your onions in a pair of pantyhose, knot under each onion and hang up in a dark dry place until your ready to use. Then as you use them, starting at the bottom of the stocking, cut off above the knot.

 

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Faster Nail and Hair Growth?
I got a tip from my beautician to try prenatal tablets. I am far past the natal stage but she claims its great on growing hair and nails. You can buy prenatal pills in your pharmacy. I am not sure if you have a Krogers Grocery Store there, but that is where...

 

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Stopping the Itch from Chigger Bites
When we were very little my mother would fill a bathtub up with hot bathwater and add baking soda to it. You could just see the little buggers coming off of your skin and float to the top. As for the clear fingernail polish...I heard that one too...and used...

 

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Recipe for Baked Jelly Filled Donuts?
I just got this recipe from the Betty Crocker site about 2 days ago. It sounds really easy Raspberry Jelly Doughnuts Ingredients 6 tablespoons LAND O LAKES® Butter, melted. 3/4cup sugar 3/4teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/3cup raspberry jelly1can (12 oz) Pillsbury...

 

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Recipe for Baked Jelly Filled Donuts?
Darn, guess it was Pillsbury like the one that Angelofraa had as well. Still sounds good and easy.

 

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Homemade Vegetable Trellises?
For my cucumbers and peas I used tomato cages.

 

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Defrosting the Water Line to an Ice Maker?
All the comments I have seen on this subject say to use a hairdryer. Good luck.

 

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Growing Bell Peppers?
My girfriend swears by epsoms salt to grow her peppers nice and big. This year I am going to try it. I would say start with a small amount like a teaspoon spread around the perimeter of the plant but not on it or too close to it. Good Luck and hope you have...

 

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Kenmore Refrigerator Ice Maker Isn't Making Ice?
I had the same problem. A lot of times the hose at the back of the refrigerator has water that feeds to the ice maker that freezes up causing an ice jam. Take a hair blower and thaw the ice blockage up and it should start making ice again.

 

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Peanut Brittle
I have never heard of burnt sugar flavoring. Can you get that at any grocery store?

 

Closeup of moose crossing a dirt road.

Moose
Youre right. This picture is definitely frame worthy. What a wonderful picture you captured.

 

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Cancer Risk With Non-Stick Cookware
Have you ever tried cast iron frying and cooking pans? Once seasoned they are the very best ever. I dont have anything stick in mine. I have been using them for years and I would never use anything else now.

 

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How Do I Make Bread and Butter Pickles?
This is a great site. Thanks so much for sharing this. A nice beginners site as well.

 

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Chicken Potluck
I was also wondering what IMO is.

 

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Shopping for a Quality Recliner?
I hate to say this since everyone loves their Lazyboys...but we had a lot of problems with ours. We talked with some furniture sales people and they said Lazyboys are not as good in the quality as they once were. We looked hard and long and have bought a Charles...

 

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Cleaning Milk From Upholstery?
I am not sure if its still available but my sister-in-law told me about a wonderful cleaner. She found it at Walmart in the automotive department with the cleaners there. Its called Blue Magic stain and spot cleaner. Its wonderful stuff. I took blood out of...

 

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Removing Grease from Car Upholstery?
If you have a Walmart near, go to the automotive section there and pick up a spray can of Blue Magic spot and stain remover. Im telling you it works wonders. I just cleaned a whole room of carpeting stained with blood from an accident and it worked like a miracle...

 

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12 Days of Classic Christmas Cookies
These recipes looks so good. I like the idea of them being tested and handed down from family to family so I know they have to be good. Thanks so much for sharing.

 

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Lid For Corningware Teapot?
Check your flea markets or antique stores. I have bought several of these corningware teapots there. Some have been complete with the tea leaf holder in the lid, others with just the lids. They can vary in prices there so just keep checking around for the lowest...

 

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Tomato Preserves Didn't Set Up?
Thanks a lot for the hint. I hope this is the case Coreenhart.

 

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Sweet Tomato Preserves Recipe?
This was my Grandmothers recipes. Simple but very good. I remember the days when I was young and loved this. Tomato Jam Wash, drain & cut in halves 4 Qt. of yellow (red) tomatoes Boil till soft, and then turn into jelly bag & drain overnight Allow 1/2 cup sugar...

 

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Central Air Conditioner Reviews?
We have a Trane that is made by American Standard. ( I know because my husband worked for Amer. Std) We have had it a LOT of years now and have never had one problem with it. We did a lot of checking around before we bought this one and this was the best one...

 

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Chipmunks Attacking My Plants?
I have the same problem. They have chewed off my rutabagas and broccoli to just the stems and dug out my calla lilies. I just dusted mine with cayenne pepper. I have heard this works and will not hurt your plants at all. Good luck

 

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Frugal "Nameless" Dinner
We call that Goulash....Only we use macaroni as well. My husband and family loves it.

 

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Mashed Potato Salad Recipe
I see there were many response to your question on the mashed potato salad. My brother makes it all the time. Its just like regular potato salad only he mashes the potatoes first. So just do it the way you would your regular potato salad. Even though its the...

 

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Making Crunchy Canned Pickles?
I have a very simple easy way of making pickles. I buy Mrs. Wages pickle mix for whatever pickles you may want to make; kosher, dill, bread and butter, etc. I boil the mix to hottest temp then pour it over the pickles in the jar. I do notprocess these then...

 

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Sugar is Too Moist?
If mine gets too moist or hardens, I have put it in the microwave to break it back down and take out the moisture.

 

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Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
Are these a soft cookie...or more on the firm side?

 

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Easy No-Knead Bread
This sounds like a recipe I would like to use for Thanksgiving. Is there a given amount of gluten that you use for this recipe? Thanks for sharing.

 

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Fool-Proof Dark Rye Bread
I would love to try this. Where do you find the Rye Meal?

 

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Easy Homemade Bagels Using Dough Cycle on Bread Machine
I am always looking for new recipes for my new breadmaker. I am sure I havent quite met the full potential of it yet. Thanks for the great recipe, I LOVE bagels. I am definitely going to try this recipes. Sounds sooooo good.

 

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Cover Your Paint Roller With Saran Wrap
I have taken my paint roller and roller cover and put all of it in a plastic baggy and put it in the refrigerator. Its amazing how well this works especially if I am going to use it again within the week. It keeps it moist and keeps it from drying up.

 

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Regrowing Hair?
When my hair started getting thin I went to a dermatologist and he said it was hereditary and the only thing on the market he knew of to help was Rogaine. It will not restore your hair, but it will help with the prevention of more hair loss and in some instances...

 

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Food Processor Homemade Noodles
Thank you so much for sharing. Its a lost art of making homemade noodles anymore. This sounds like a recipe my grandmother used. Thanks again

 

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No Fail Potatoes
I am wondering if you mean to use margarine twice. You have 1/2 a cup and a 1/4 of a cup of melted margarine.

 

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Do I Need Two Apple Trees To Get Fruit?
We have one apple tree and it produces an abundance of apples each year. Like doodles said...the bees will pollinate them. Good luck

 

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Perennial Plant Suggestions?
I have a cement block retaining wall horizontially layered along my driveway and I cover them with creeping phlox which flowers in the spring and then has foliage thru the summer....or another thing I have used is perennial vinca that has nice flowers and is...

 

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