Cooking Archives

How People Stored Food Before Refrigerators

Find out how to store food without a refrigerator. Explore alternative methods of food preservation that people have used for millennia.

Explore these forgotten recipes from the past and learn how our pioneer ancestors cooked with what they had.

Master the art of cooking without cookware. Experience the freedom of using nature’s tools and your creativity to prepare delicious meals.

Discover 10 plants that can be pressed into oil for both culinary and medicinal purposes. Enhance your cooking with these healthy oils.

Creating DIY instant soup mixes is a great way to stockpile food with a long shelf-life for emergencies. Just add boiling water.

Learn how to render lard at home from pork fat with this step-by-step guide. Discover the benefits of homemade lard.

Discover 7 creative ways to improvise and make delicious meals using ingredients from your long-term food storage.

Hardtack is a cracker made from flour, salt, and water. If you store it properly, it will last for decade. Here’s the recipe for hardtack.

Cooking on rocks is an ancient method of survival cooking. Learn how to cook food on a rock with this primitive cooking method.

There are many types of portable off-grid cooking stoves including propane, liquid gas, and wood. Each have their own pros and cons.