Frugal Cooking – Part two – Fill the Oven and in Hot water
Fill the oven We probably all know that heating the whole oven just to cook one jacket potato is a bit of a waste but how many times do we actually act on this knowledge? […]
January 2009
Saving Cash in the Kitchen – Fridge and cooker, Andy Hamilton
Saving cash in the kitchen – Part 1. I can never understand why people would waste money by wasting electricity. Let’s put aside any environmental benefits for one second and think in just monetary terms. […]
Solar Oven Recipe – Sourdough Bread – By Nev Sweeney
Here on this site is an article for making a box solar oven and in that article I expressed doubt that it would be capable of baking bread in winter (Australian Winter). Well, I proved […]
Making a Chook Brooder (Chicken Brooder)
I have kept chooks for many years, and for the past few years I have bought point of lay Rhode Island Reds from a local poultry farm to replace those that have gone to a […]
Making a cotton Gin – by Nev Sweeney
The story of how I grow and spin my own cotton is still continuing, this years crop looks like it will be a big one (relatively – how much can you expect from three or […]
Wartime Recipes – WW2 recipes by Andy Hamilton and Mrs Flibble
The generation that lived through World War 2 are sometimes referred to as the Great Generation. Indeed they suffered hardships we can no longer imagine. To us this latest recession means that we might have […]