Tips & Techniques

How To Render Bacon Fat
How To Render and Save Bacon Fat Step-by-step, photo illustrated instructions teach you how to render bacon fat, a Southern cooks secret ingredient for great taste. How To Render Bacon Fat … Don’t throw that bacon grease away. It’s a great Southern seasoning. … I hope you’re saving your bacon grease after you cook […]

How To Render Leaf Lard
Follow step-by-step, photo illustrated instructions and learn How To Render Leaf Lard. Making your own lard at home, is much easier than you might imagine, and we’ll show you just how to do it. Leaf Lard is considered to be the finest lard for baking, especially when making pie crusts from scratch. It just takes […]

How To Roast Peppers
Follow step-by-step, photo illustrated instructions and learn how to roast peppers in your oven. Roasting peppers is a great way to preserve some of the summers bounty of peppers, and you’ll find lots of uses for them in the weeks ahead. We’re roasting these to use as a pizza topping and we’ll show you just […]

Basic Cake Layers Recipe
Follow these easy, step-by-step, photo illustrated instructions for making our homemade Basic Cake Layers Recipe. Baking from scratch is much easier than you think. Why give credit to a boxed cake mix when you can bake your very own scratch made layers and, have family and friends raving about how moist and delicious your cakes […]

How To Open A Coconut
Step-by-step, photo illustrated instructions on how to open a coconut and grate it. It’s much easier than you might think to open up a fresh coconut and grate the meat inside for your next recipe. From Coconut Cakes to Coconut Cream Pies and so many other dishes, you’ll love the distinctly different taste of using […]