Sweet Spot – The Doukhobor Jam-Making Enterprise
"Sweet Spot - The Doukhobor Jam-Making Enterprise" is the first article in a five part historical series by Jonathan Kalmakoff, in [...]
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Apr, 20
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Apr, 20
A 200-year old flour mill near London, Ontario
https://lfpress.com/business/local-business/historic-mill-picks-up-flour-slack-from-empty-grocery-store-shelves A 200-year old flour mill near London, Ontario, has ramped up flour production since the pandemic lockdown began. (The link [...]
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Apr, 20
Thrifty meals for quarantine cooking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/04/15/heres-quarantine-cooking-advice-from-the-ogs-of-thrifty-meals-home-ec-teachers/ (Thanks to KB for this link)
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Apr, 20
Quarantine bread making
"It's that comfort of connecting to heritage or connecting to a living thing, a microorganism like yeast...." - CBC News April 6, [...]
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Mar, 20
Hand sanitizer facts
https://www.cbc.ca/news/covid-19-hand-sanitizer-fact-check-1.5510163 "Ethyl will thrill you but methyl will kill you"....... Thank you to KB for scouting this out.
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Mar, 20
Basic Home Cooking
Basic Cooking Skills Basic cooking skills never go out of date. "Our grandmothers and mothers [sic] learned how to cook by [...]
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Mar, 20
KD Shortage
Kraft Dinner - empty shelves and shopping advice https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/a-single-factory-is-now-working-24-7-to-keep-kraft-dinner-on-grocery-shelves-1.4862199 Happy World Home Economics Day!It's easy to make your own [...]
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Mar, 20
Easter Ham: Scruffy Hospitality
The Easter Ham was a tradition in my family. Neither 12-foot drifts, 75 mile-an-hour winds, or the prospect of having to [...]
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Mar, 20
Seville Oranges and Dundee Marmalade
Seville Oranges and Dundee Marmalade Seville oranges Oranges do not have to be from Seville and marmalade doesn't have [...]
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Feb, 20
In search of the perfect loaf
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/university-manitoba-bread-scientists-1.5463315