If your garden produces more cucumbers than you can eat, consider canning some to make homemade dill pickles. Pick fresh cucumbers when they are firm, dark green in color and covered with bumps, or warts; these will make the crispest dill pickles. When your pickles are done, add a decorative label to each jar with the date the pickles were made. These make great homemade gifts for friends and family, so make an extra batch or two to share.
Make a Recipe Book as a Gift
Taking the time to create a personalized recipe book for a special book is worth the time it takes. Family members can each contribute a few recipes along with a little story about when and where the recipe originated. Then you can gather all these together, add a few photos and have it bound into book form. By letting children add their drawings and handwritten text, your recipe book will become a treasured keepsake. Personalized recipe books also make perfect gifts for new brides. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Dehydrate, or Dry, STRAWBERRIES!: A Food Preservation Recipe
Strawberries are one of the world's most popular berries. They are most available April through July, but can be enjoyed year round by preserving them. Drying strawberries at home is easy and has several benefits as a method of food preservation. Unlike frozen strawberries, dried strawberries can be stored at room temperature and do not rely on electricity to maintain their quality. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Make Recipe Cards on the Computer
You've saved hundreds of recipes cut from magazines or collected from friends or relatives, all different shapes and sizes that won't fit in a recipe file. If you have access to a computer and the Internet, you can find a variety of sites and products that will make it easy to create recipe cards you can either print out or collect into a digital file. Or you can make a card template yourself in a word processing or publishing program. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Bake White Bread (a quick and easy recipe)
Would you like to bake for your family but feel like it takes too much time? Have an hour? Then you have time for home made bread. Try this quick and easy family-favorite bread recipe and be a suppertime hero. Who knows, your kids might even offer to help with the dishes. Add this to my Recipe Box.