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"These are the most common pickling spices. Use them all or pick 'n choose. Vary your mix to taste"

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cloves...

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Prep Time: 3 mins

Total Time: 3 mins

Pickling Spice Pick List

By Ambervim

Photo by Ambervim

How to Roast Peppers or Fresh Chiles, Any Type or Variety

By Mama's Kitchen (Hope) on August 22, 2012

Recipe #485821

"Money saving and oh so easy! Here is how to roast any type of pepper or any variety of chile whether sweet or hot! Roasting your own peppers and chiles allows you to control the quality of the vegetables used and whether or not things like salt and oils are added! You can easily increase the amount of peppers or chiles you are roasting. (Food.com required..."

Ingredients: aluminum foil, green chilies...

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 15 mins

How to Roast Peppers or Fresh Chiles, Any Type or Variety

By Mama's Kitchen (Hope)

Photo by Mama's Kitchen (Hope)

Soy Sauce Substitute - Gluten Free

By jswope162 on June 15, 2012

Recipe #111373

"Found a recipe on the internet and adjusted to fit my GF/CF/SoyFree/Low Sugar Diet"

Ingredients: cider vinegar, garlic powder...

4 Reviews

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 20 mins

Soy Sauce Substitute - Gluten Free

By jswope162

Photo by kandi6381

Oven Dried Hot Peppers-Flakes or Powder

By Rita~ on January 26, 2012

Recipe #73907

"Make your own chili powder or flakes with those extra garden peppers be it jalapenos, thai, habanero or pepper of your choice. Be sure to use gloves when handling hot peppers. Be careful when grinding not to get any of the pepper dust into your nose and eyes. As they dry in the oven you'll find yourself sneezing from them. I've dried them..."

Ingredients: parchment paper, hot peppers...

9 Reviews

Prep Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins

Oven Dried Hot Peppers-Flakes or Powder

By Rita~

Photo by gailanng

Lemon-Tarragon Vinegar

By Rita~ on October 19, 2010

Recipe #69092

"Nice to gift wrap and put into a fruit basket. This takes 1-4 weeks to infuse flavors. Can be doubled."

Ingredients: lemons, sugar, tarragon...

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 20 mins

Lemon-Tarragon Vinegar

By Rita~

Photo by Rita~

Chili Seasoning Mix

By Redsie on July 27, 2010

Recipe #402728

"From our Best Bites. Want to make little packages of this mix to give as gifts for Christmas!"

Ingredients: ground cumin, dried oregano leaves...

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 5 mins

Chili Seasoning Mix

By Redsie

Photo by Pink_Diamond

Exotic Orange Blossom Water and Rose Water - Make Your Own!

By French Tart on June 30, 2010

Recipe #414575

"Cooking with unusual ingredients can be very rewarding, and we all love to impress our guests with unusual recipes and flavours. Using rose water and orange blossom water is a way of doing just this, with their unique taste, but purchasing these rare treats can be expensive. I cook with rose water and orange blossom water a lot; especially in historical..."

Ingredients: rose petals, distilled water...

2 Reviews

Prep Time: 336 hrs

Total Time: 336 hrs

Exotic Orange Blossom Water and Rose Water - Make Your Own!

By French Tart

Photo by Baby Kato

Sun Dried Orange Peel - for Tagines, Daubes and Sweet Things!

By French Tart on June 8, 2010

Recipe #254233

"I always dry at least a kilo of orange peel during the summer months - and that keeps me right through until next year. This is not so much a recipe as a technique, but it is so useful to have a jar of this in your pantry throughout the drear winter months. I use this dried peel in daubes, tagines, stews, curries, marinades, desserts, cakes and baking...."

Ingredients: oranges, paper...

2 Reviews

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 6 hrs 5 mins

Sun Dried Orange Peel - for Tagines, Daubes and Sweet Things!

By French Tart

Photo by **Tinkerbell**

Sour Cream and Onion Popcorn or Snack Shaker (Copycat)

By spiritussancto on April 19, 2010

Recipe #392332

"when i google "how to make powdered sour cream" i get a page to patent my idea. i think that's a bad sign. this is my logic, it may or may not work. if you try it let me know how it went! i would use pre-made powdered sour cream but it's about $35 plus shipping for one tin. i think not."

Ingredients: dill, onion salt...

3 Reviews

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 5 mins

Sour Cream and Onion Popcorn or Snack Shaker (Copycat)

By spiritussancto

Photo by littlemafia

Traditional Sweet Violet Syrup

By French Tart on March 23, 2010

Recipe #416575

"A simple and beautiful syrup that is easy to make and gives amazing results. My front garden is covered in little sweet violets every spring and although I crystallise them or cut them for the spring dinner table, I recently found this old recipe for making violet syrup, which is fabulous. So, I have been busy making Sweet Violet Syrup this year! The..."

Ingredients: violets, white sugar...

Prep Time: 24 hrs

Total Time: 24 hrs 15 mins

Traditional Sweet Violet Syrup

By French Tart

Photo by French Tart

Kitchen Bouquet wanna-be

By Angela Curtis on November 13, 2009

Recipe #75660

"In general when a recipe calls for Kitchen Bouquet I use soy sauce. However, I found a roast recipe this wouldn't be appropriate for, and therefore found this recipe on the internet (www.recipegoldmine.com). To be honest, the first time I made this I didn't even follow the instructions, I just tossed some brown sugar in a pan, melted it and..."

Ingredients: water, brown sugar...

8 Reviews

Prep Time: 0 mins

Total Time: 5 mins

Kitchen Bouquet wanna-be

By Angela Curtis

Photo by gailanng

Ginger-Garlic Paste

By Ranikabani on September 7, 2009

Recipe #38054

"I usually ask my kids to peel the garlic and ginger while they are watching tv :) That's the hardest part! I store it in the fridge. Don't be alarmed if it starts to turn greenish ...it usually discolours within an hour or so. It's just fine :)"